You’re Hired! Restrictions on Hiring Former Government Employees for Government Contractors
False Claims Act Insights - Rogue Employees: Vicarious Liability Under the False Claims Act
False Claims Act Insights - The Rise of State False Claims Act Enforcement
Inside the SBA’s Full-Scale 8(a) Audit: What Participants Need to Know Now
False Claims Act Insights - The Latest on Zafirov and the Future of Qui Tams
Project Catalyst: An Economic Development Podcast | Episode 18: The Triad’s Economic Momentum with Marvin Price of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
From Compliance Certification to False Claim: The New DEI Risks Facing Federal-Funding Recipients
The FTC's Interest in Governance Matters: Board Oversight, Compliance and Awareness
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
Key Takeaways - CMS is seeking input by March 30 on a proposed framework to promote U.S.-made PPE and essential medicines in Medicare-participating hospitals....more
In September 2024, Australia introduced sweeping reforms to its anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) regime with the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Foreign Bribery) Act 2024 (Foreign Bribery Act), which came into...more
Civilian-agency contractors will now be required to evaluate the security of information technology systems that process, store or transmit Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) as the Government Services Administration...more
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) in June 2025 announced the expansion of transactional data reporting (TDR) to 62 new product and cloud services Special Item Numbers (SINs) and...more
Dual‑use startups often seek nondilutive funding through US government contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and “Other Transactions”. Such public funding can be a powerful growth catalyst, but it brings with it a...more
The President’s January 7 Executive Order threatened penalties for contractors that were both "underperforming" and engaged in stock buybacks or other distributions....more
This alert is a follow-on to our prior coverage of the SBA’s December 2025 data call, suspensions of over 1,000 firms, and DoD’s review of high-value set-asides...more
In February 2026, the White House issued an Executive Order titled “Establishing an America First Arms Transfer Strategy.” Although the Order does not amend the Arms Export Control Act or the Export Control Reform Act of 2018...more
Judge Kenney of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in Jonathan Meyer v ADS Clinics, LLC, No. 21-cv-5303, on February 10, 2026, rejected a most recent attempt to gut the qui tam provisions from the federal False Claims Act...more
Navigating today’s constantly evolving compliance landscape can be challenging. To help simplify the process, Berkshire has compiled an overview of key federal and state EEO reporting deadlines and thresholds, giving you the...more
On February 6, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a final Order in the case NADOHE v. Trump, permanently vacating a district court’s preliminary injunction against several provisions of Executive...more
Federal contractors and grant recipients are operating in a period of unusual transition. The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) rewrite is advancing through agency deviations while formal rulemaking is set to begin. ...more
On Jan. 16, 2026, Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Department of Defense will initiate a comprehensive review of contracts awarded under the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) 8(a) Business Development Program...more
Remember in Coming to America when Eddie Murphy’s Prince Akeem shows up in Queens full of charm, optimism, and big dreams and somehow it all works out? Fast-forward 38 years (yes, it’s been that long) and European companies...more
On February 9, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California approved the parties’ stipulation in Center for Investigative Reporting v. U.S. Dep’t of Labor and lifted the temporary stay that had paused...more
The district court's ruling reopens opportunities for financial and other companies to do business with Texas state investment funds and other government entities, but the ruling may not be the final word on the issue. On...more
As recently reported by the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), settlements and judgments under the Civil False Claims Act (“FCA”) exceeded $6.8 billion for fiscal year 2025, the highest number in a single year in the history of...more
Starting in 2018, the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and a CIR reporter have been fighting to force OFCCP to disclose EEO-1 reports that have been filed by federal contractors. These contractors have operated with...more
On February 6, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced the suspension of 111,620 California borrowers after identifying suspected fraudulent activity involving pandemic-era loan programs. The agency determined that...more
On January 19, 2026, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier issued separate legal opinions declaring several state laws, regulations, and agency programs that consider characteristics...more
Texas is commonly portrayed as business-friendly, offering many tax advantages and other economic benefits to incentivize companies to do business in the Lone Star State. Yet, when it comes to protecting businesses from...more
Directs the Department of War (DOW), in coordination with the Department of Energy (DOE), to prioritize long-term power purchase agreements with coal-fired power plants to supply military and other mission-critical federal...more
The long-running legal battle over public access to federal contractors’ EEO-1 reports is coming to a close and thousands of contractors will soon see their workforce demographic data become available to the public. Late last...more
Last year, President Donald Trump withdrew a Biden-era executive order setting the minimum wage for workers employed by federal contractors at $17.75....more
On February 2, 2026, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM) and the Trump Administration announced Project Vault, a $12 billion initiative establishing the U.S. Strategic Critical Minerals Reserve. This...more