Back to Basics: Inside the SEC's New Enforcement Priorities — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Latham in Focus: The False Claims Act’s Next Wave
AI State Regulatory Frontiers: Emerging Issues on AI, Privilege, and Work Product in Legal Practice — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Latham in Focus: Geopolitical and Reputational Considerations for GCs
False Claims Act Insights - Managed Care FCA Enforcement: Risk Adjustment, AI, Kickbacks, and More
Podcast — Drug Pricing and Market Access: CMS Update With Rujul Desai
False Claims Act Insights - Relators’ Attorneys’ Fees: Math, Limits, and How to Push Back
Podcast - The New Rules of Healthcare Fraud Enforcement
Workforce Unfiltered Episode 2 - ANOTHER DAVID?, Abraham Lincoln, and the False Claims Act in Employment
The New DEI Crackdown: What Federal Contractors Must Do Now
Contract Claims 101: The Fundamentals of Contract Administration Disputes
False Claims Act Insights - Healthcare Compensation and Referrals: Avoiding Compliance Pitfalls in Physician Deals
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 82 - Is Qui Tam Unconstitutional? The False Claims Act's Constitutional Reckoning
Workforce Unfiltered - Ep 1 - NASCAR, Illegal DEI, and Our Guest Sues Our Host
We get Contracting: Episode 2 — Civil Rights Compliance Opens New Path to FCA Claims
The Lobby Bar Podcast | Government Conflict of Interest Rules: The Underdiscussed Threat
False Claims Act Insights - $1.6 Billion FCA Judgment on Appeal: What it Means for FCA Enforcement
False Claims Act Insights - Qui Tam Dismissals Are Spiking: What That Means for FCA Enforcement
CMMC Mission Readiness: Navigating Growth, Costs, and Competition for Defense Contractors
On June 2, 2026, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO), Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security, directing a government-wide effort to strengthen cybersecurity capabilities through advanced...more
On May 7, 2026, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) published a proposed rule that would amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to add foreign ownership, control or influence (FOCI) disclosure...more
The Small Business Administration (SBA) on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, released a proposed rule, Reforms to Remove SBA’s 8(a) Program’s Rebuttable Presumption of Social Disadvantage for Individually Owned Firms Only; Reforms Do...more
Health care industries are facing increasing environmental regulatory pressure, particularly regarding packaging, PFAS restrictions, and carbon footprint requirements, which has direct implications for market access and...more
On June 11, 2026, the U.S. Small Business Administration published a proposal fundamentally altering how individuals demonstrate eligibility under the Social Disadvantage standard for the 8(a) Business Development Program....more
Our Drug Pricing and Market Access team tracks recent developments in healthcare reform, the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, the 340B Program, Medicare, and state law....more
Congress is considering legislation that would codify the long-standing “Rule of Two” into statute, potentially strengthening one of the federal government’s most important small business contracting requirements. The...more
Earlier this week, the Department of War released its 2026 annual update to the 1260H list of Chinese military companies, listing five biotechnology companies, including WuXi AppTec Co., Ltd (“WuXi AppTec”). Inclusion on the...more
On June 8, 2026, the US Department of Defense/War (the Department or the Pentagon) released an updated version of its list of “Chinese Military Companies” operating in the United States, pursuant to the requirements of...more
A defense market in structural expansion Italy's defense sector has re-rated into one of Europe's most active M&A and procurement markets. In 2025, Italy reached NATO's 2% of GDP threshold — spending of €45.3 billion, up...more
On Friday, May 29, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published a sweeping plan to modify the Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. A proposed rule seeks significantly to revise several parts of the OMB...more
Construction contractors and their employees can face significant civil and criminal exposure under state and federal False Claims Acts (“FCA”), among other laws, for failing to appreciate the significance of, and nuances to,...more
In recent weeks, Congress and the Administration have escalated scrutiny of China-linked biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, and related intellectual property. The developments below signal that the landscape for...more
For many contractors within the Defense Industrial Base, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) assessments are becoming far more than cybersecurity hygiene exercises. As companies strive to become CMMC compliant,...more
On June 11, 2026, the Small Business Administration (SBA) released a proposed rule that, if finalized, will substantially change eligibility for the 8(a) business development program for businesses owned and controlled by...more
Employers are seeing an increase in False Claims Act (FCA) retaliation claims stemming from what claimants often characterize as adverse action because of purported whistleblowing. In many cases, these actions are taken as a...more
On June 10, 2026, a coalition of twenty states and the District of Columbia filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland challenging federal agency actions taken to implement Executive Order (EO) 14398,...more
On May 7, 2026, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) proposed a new Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) rule titled “Mitigating Risks Related to Foreign Ownership, Control, or Influence” that would...more
On June 11, 2026, the SBA published a proposed rule that fundamentally rewrites how individually owned firms establish social disadvantage for purposes of 8(a) Business Development Program eligibility. ...more
The U.S. Small Business Administration published a significant proposed rule on June 11, 2026, that would fundamentally reshape how individuals qualify for the Section 8(a) Business Development Program....more
Economic development professionals continue to balance confidentiality demands from companies with their own statutory transparency obligations. Carefully structured non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), paired with clear...more
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) issued a proposed rule on June 11, 2026, to remove the rebuttable presumption of social disadvantage for individually owned firms applying to the 8(a) Business Development Program....more
SBA Issues Proposed Rule Regarding Social Disadvantage Requirements for Individually-Owned 8(a) Applicants - On June 11, 2026, SBA issued a proposed rule entitled “Reforms to Remove SBA’s 8(a) Program’s Rebuttable...more
On June 2, 2026, the White House issued the Order which announces that it is “the policy of the United States to promote AI innovation and security by working collaboratively with the private sector to modernize government...more
On June 11, 2026, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) proposed significant changes to the 8(a) Business Development (BD) program's requirements for establishing social disadvantage in a new rule, "Reforms To Remove...more