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Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Ad Law News and Views - March 2025

IN THE NEWS AND LATEST UPDATES - What’s Next at FTC Following Firings of Democratic Commissioners? It’s been a week since the Trump administration fired FTC Commissioners Slaughter and Bedoya because their ​“continued service...more

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis

Breaches Within Breaches: Contractual Obligations After a Security Incident

We often cover consumer class action complaints against companies regarding the privacy and security of personal information. However, litigation can also arise from alleged breach of contract between two companies....more

Baker Donelson

New Section 232 Investigations Target Pharmaceutical, Semiconductor, and Critical Mineral Industries: What Impacted Businesses...

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The Department of Commerce (Commerce) has launched three Section 232 investigations covering pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical ingredients, and their derivative products; semiconductors and semiconductor manufacturing equipment...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

What Government Contractors Need to Know About the “Revolutionary Federal Procurement Overhaul”

The Trump administration has launched a sweeping overhaul of federal procurement policy aimed at streamlining the Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”), cutting compliance costs, and increasing competition. These changes are...more

The Volkov Law Group

DOJ Issues Data Security Program Requirements (Part I of II)

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Many “good government” initiatives continue to be enacted or implemented on Capitol Hill or in the Executive Branch — notwithstanding changes in political control. While working on Capitol Hill, the bulk of the legislative...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Ensuring Commercial, Cost-Effective Solutions in Federal Contracts

Orders agencies to procure commercially available products and services, including those that can be modified to fill agencies’ needs, to the maximum extent practicable. Within 60 days of the date of this order, each agency’s...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The Week in Weed: April 2025 # 3

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, we see that the DEA’s rescheduling hearing is still pending. Germany’s cannabis program is likely to...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: FAR 2.0: Executive Order Aims to Rewrite the Federal Acquisition Regulation

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On April 15, 2025, the Trump Administration issued executive order “Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement,” (the EO), which aims to overhaul the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) “to create the most agile,...more

Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Does Wisconsin Bell Indicate Waning Support for Invalidating the FCA’s Qui Tam Provisions?

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In the summer of 2023, Justice Thomas suggested in a dissenting opinion in U.S. ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources that Article II of the Constitution might not permit a qui tam relator to sue in the name of the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Commercial Division Moves Towards Adopting Additional Initial Disclosure Requirements

While the Commercial Division Rules are closer to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure than any other set of court rules in New York (including the base requirements of the CPLR), they are far from identical. One area where...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The AAA’s Infographic and the Continued Abuse of Mass Arbitration

On April 15, 2025, the American Arbitration Association (AAA) distributed an infographic with statistics on mass arbitration in 2024, which could be read to suggest that the consumer mass arbitration process is functioning...more

Jones Day

EU Deforestation Regulation: New Guidance Document, new FAQs and a proposal for a Delegated Act

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On April 15, 2025, the EU Commission published a new Guidance Document, new frequently asked questions (FAQs), and a proposal for a new Delegated Act designed to simplify the compliance with the EU Deforestation Regulation...more

Hogan Lovells

UK: “Duty of retrieval” rejected: why banks do not owe a duty to recover funds lost through APP fraud

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Banking fraud of all types is an ever increasing problem in today’s society, and takes a multitude of forms. On a basic level, frauds can be divided into two types. Unauthorised fraud, where the victim does not provide...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

Sourcing 360: Examining Troubled Digital Implementations and How the Contract Matters

Digital transformation continues to be a buzzword for 2025, with companies considering or implementing new user-facing and back-office artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and other digital tools to enhance end-user...more

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

Dealing with Tariffs and Executive Orders (Properties Magazine)

The year 2025 is shaping up to be quite the challenging year for the construction industry. From the President’s executive order nos. 14151 and 14174 (signed January 20 and 21, 2025, respectively) seeking to end DEI-related...more

Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP

Handling Partner Expulsions in Restaurant Businesses: A Legal Guide

Partnership conflicts can arise in any restaurant business, and in some cases, the only solution is expelling a partner. However, removing a business partner is a complex legal process that must be handled carefully to avoid...more

Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP

My Fashion (Legal) Odyssey: Part 6 How To Choose, Use (And Not Abuse) Your Lawyer

The selection of a professional by a lay person is often a dicey matter. Choosing a lawyer is no different. What qualities should you look for? What are the indicators of a lawyer to avoid? Don’t use your lawyer cousin Bernie...more

Wiley Rein LLP

New Executive Orders Call for Rewriting Federal Procurement Rules, Maximizing Commercial Acquisitions

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WHAT: President Trump issued two new Executive Orders (EOs) on April 15 and April 16, 2025, focused on federal procurement streamlining. The April 15 EO, entitled “Restoring Common Sense to Federal Procurement,” is intended...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

[Podcast] Real World; Real Problems—First Steps in Addressing Real Estate Partnership Disputes

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On this Ropes & Gray podcast, real estate investments and transactions partner David Kaye and counsel Pete Scherer are joined by litigation partner Andrew Todres to discuss one of the more taboo topics in real estate...more

BakerHostetler

Methods To Allocate Tariff-Related Risks in M&A Agreements

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Buyers and sellers that are parties to an M&A transaction should carefully consider whether the risks associated with tariffs that have already been imposed or that may be imposed in the future may significantly impact the...more

Proskauer - Trade Secrets

Georgia Federal Court Denies TRO and Motion to Dismiss in Trade Secrets Case

On March 27, 2025, in Stimlabs LLC v. Griffiths, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ordered a former executive, Sarah Griffiths, to face claims related to her alleged theft of Stimlab’s trade secrets...more

Dechert LLP

Surviving Swings – A Derivatives and Trading Watch List

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Recent market disruptions have resulted in reports of margin calls in amounts unseen since 2020. Those reports have turned the spotlight on derivatives, repos and other transactions. The significant role these products play...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

The Non-Compliant Cat in the Hat

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So, just before Easter, in 1957, a little book you may have heard of, called The Cat in the Hat, made its first appearance. Theodore Geisel — writing under the name “Dr. Suess” — later said that of all his children’s books,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Delaware Law on Fiduciary Duties and Stockholder Agreements

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Delaware corporate law is renowned for its balance between flexibility in business arrangements and the fundamental principles of fiduciary accountability. One of the areas where this balance is most evident is in the...more

J.S. Held

Tariffs and Trade Series: Addressing Impacts on the Energy Sector

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While tariffs have long been a consideration in energy, they have now emerged as a central influence on energy production, commodity pricing, and macroeconomic conditions, resulting in global impacts on energy executives,...more

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