False Claims Act Insights - Understanding HIPAA Disclosures When Responding to CIDs in FCA Investigations
AGG Talks: Government Insight for Life Sciences Leaders | How Medicare Regulations Could Affect Access to Gender-Affirming Care: Implications for Life Sciences Companies
Avoiding Common Teaming and Subcontracting Pitfalls
Overcoming the Compliance Minefield, Part 3: Build Indirect Rates That Stand Up to DCAA Scrutiny
Maximizing Recovery: Tactics for Stop Work REAs and Termination Proposals
November 2025 Monthly Minute | The Federal Government and AI
FCA Implications for M&A Transactions
Chatbots, Trust and Helplines
The Lobby Bar: a Political Law Podcast | Welcome to the Lobby Bar: Battleground 2025 – Navigating Pay-to-Play Laws
What's New with the False Claims Act?
Overcoming the Compliance Minefield of Cost-Reimbursement Contracts, Part 2: Mastering DCAA Audits in Cost-Plus-Fixed-Fee Contracts
Managing Workforce Challenges During Shutdowns
AGG Talks: Government Insight for Life Sciences Leaders - Episode 2: DOJ’s Shifting Enforcement: CPB Disbanding, Counterfeit Drug Focus, and Gender-Affirming Care Investigations
False Claims Act Insights - Recent Federal Executive Actions Place Anti-Discrimination Within the FCA’s Orbit
Managing the Financial Impact of Tariffs on Your Government Contract
Key Changes in GSA Schedule Contracting: What You Need to Know
Federal Policy Updates and Their Implications on Transportation Funding
Multijurisdictional Employers, Part 4: Marijuana and Other Drug Testing in the Workplace
Navigating the Energy Frontier With Aric Zurek, Fluence — Battery + Storage Podcast
The U.S. government has recently signaled changes for development and procurement of weapons and aerospace systems. The government has stressed moving faster in procurement and becoming more self-reliant in manufacturing and...more
Jonathan Porter welcomes colleague Claire Postman to discuss how healthcare providers approach HIPAA when responding to civil investigative demands in False Claims Act investigations. Jonathan explains that providers often...more
In Castro & Company, LLC, B-423689, (Nov. 13, 2025), Castro & Company protested the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) decision to award a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to Contracts Management Enterprises (CME) for...more
Effective January 1, 2026, New York’s LLC Transparency Act imposing beneficial ownership reporting on New York LLCs and foreign LLCs authorized to do business in New York goes into effect. Despite the interim final rule...more
Jury Finds Global Health Care Company Novo Nordisk Not Liable in Whistleblower’s FCA Suit - A federal jury in Washington state found Novo Nordisk not liable for violations of the False Claims Act (FCA), Anti-Kickback...more
On July 31, 2025, Governor Tina Kotek signed House Bill (“H.B.”) 2688 into law amending Oregon’s prevailing wage rate (“PWR”) law. These changes, which take effect July 1, 2026, expand the scope of the PWR law to require...more
With the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) poised to reopen and agencies resuming solicitations, awards, and debriefings, contractors should expect a sharp uptick in bid protest activity in the coming months. In that...more
Use this guide as a reference when filing lien and bond claim notices for the month of December. ...more
In October 2025, McDermott Will & Schulte hosted its Defense & Essential Infrastructure Roundtable, convening leading voices from across government, industry, and finance to discuss the challenges facing Europe’s most...more
Below is a tracker of healthcare-related executive orders (EOs) issued by the Trump administration, including overviews of each EO and the date each EO was signed. We will regularly update this tracker as additional EOs are...more
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is behind us, and Congress is leaning hard into its NASA and Department of Defense (also referred to as the Department of War) oversight roles. Jared Isaacman is once again the...more
The United States’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) issued a final rule (the rule) on November 7, 2025 that immediately amended the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) to lift the defense trade...more
In New Jersey, it is a well-established principle that any person or organization whose rights may be affected by a legal action is typically considered a necessary and indispensable party that must be included as a party in...more
After more than 40 days of disruption, the longest U.S. government shutdown in history is nearing its end. Triggered by a lapse in appropriations on October 1, 2025, the shutdown has deeply impacted federal agencies,...more
On Oct. 31, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, wherein it established the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM) – a mandatory alternative payment model...more
On October 30, the Illinois General Assembly passed the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act (CRGA), an omnibus energy bill creating incentives for energy storage projects....more
Alaska contractor, Slayden Plumbing & Heating, Inc., filed a lawsuit on November 5, 2025, in the U.S. District Court in Anchorage, Alaska, challenging the legality of a federal mandate requiring contractors on large-scale...more
Many of the trends that we discussed in our recent blog post, Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Showing Renewed Interest in the Defence Industry, have continued to accelerate during the remainder of 2025. Private...more
Key Takeaways - Courts Revisit the Constitutionality of the FCA: Recent federal decisions reflect renewed judicial scrutiny of the False Claims Act’s qui tam provisions, which authorize private individuals to bring...more
The US Department of Defense recently announced reforms to defense acquisition processes as well as arms sales to foreign militaries. The department will reshuffle several offices in efforts to streamline acquisition and...more
On Nov. 10, 2025, the long-awaited final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program became effective. This rule,...more
On November 10, 2025, the Department of Defense (DoD), also referred to as the Department of War (DoW), officially began rolling out its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Final Rule, marking the start of the...more
This alert serves to remind contractors of the much-ballyhooed Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and updates our previous articles on the Department of Defense’s (DoD) proposed CMMC Program rule and DoD’s...more
A group of 19 Democratic AGs—along with the governors of Kentucky and Pennsylvania—secured a final judgment in their lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Energy’s 10 percent cap on reimbursements for state energy...more
Key Takeaways - The Trump administration is moving to roll back and simplify sustainable procurement requirements in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) through class deviations, targeting the Biden-era sustainability...more