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BakerHostetler

The Weekly Hill Update - January 2026 #2

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Below is this week’s congressional update by BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team. We’ll continue to post in weeks when both chambers of Congress are in session....more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

New Year, New TLD Apply for your ".BRAND"

This year, organisations around the world are being offered the opportunity to acquire their own branded internet extensions: ".BRAND" top-level domains. Moving your brand from the left of the dot(.) to the right of the...more

Zelle  LLP

New Proposed Legislation in Florida Regarding AI Use in Claims Handling 

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AI isn’t replacing insurance company decision makers yet, as new legislation filed in Florida is aimed at requiring mandatory human reviews of claim denials. ...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Update: Federal Court Enjoins Texas App Store Accountability Act

A federal judge in the Western District of Texas granted preliminary injunctions (here and here) blocking enforcement of the state’s App Store Accountability Act (the “Act”), preventing the law from taking effect on January...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

What Employers Should Know About President Trump’s AI Executive Order

On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order titled Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence (the “EO”). This EO targets state laws addressing artificial intelligence and creates...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Signaling More Flexibility, FDA Says More Wearable Devices Qualify for General Wellness Exception

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The FDA’s January 2026 update to its “General Wellness: Policy for Low Risk Devices” guidance materially expands the types of wearable features that may avoid medical device regulation. Signaling a more flexible regulatory...more

Perkins Coie

California Companion Chatbot Law Now in Effect

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Over the past several years, states have increasingly experimented with regulating how chatbots and other AI-driven conversational tools are used in consumer-facing contexts. Early efforts focused largely on transparency,...more

Robinson Bradshaw

Data Breach Cases Require Some Technological Issue for Business Court Designation

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In recent years, defendants in data breach class action lawsuits filed in the state courts in North Carolina have succeeded in designating these disputes to the North Carolina Business Court. The Business Court has accepted...more

Morgan Lewis

New SEC Guidance Provides Regulatory Pathway for DTC Securities Tokenization Services

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The SEC staff issued a no-action letter on December 11, 2025 to the Depository Trust Company (DTC), a subsidiary of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) granting relief under certain provisions of the federal...more

Hogan Lovells

Connecting data centres to the electricity networks

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The United Kingdom (UK) is one of the world's largest data centre markets, with facilities housing IT infrastructure needed to process, store and share data across various sectors, including Artificial Intelligence (AI),...more

Venable LLP

FDA Approves Third Lucentis® (ranibizumab) Interchangeable Biosimilar: Formycon’s Nufymco™

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On December 18, 2025, the FDA approved Formycon and Zydus’s Nufymco™ (ranibizumab-leyk) as the third interchangeable biosimilar of Genentech’s Lucentis® (ranibizumab). Lucentis® biosimilars have been on the market since July...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 3rd Advanced Forum on Global Export Controls - February 24th - 25th, Arlington, VA

If you are a trade and legal compliance decision-maker, where can you go to learn, expand your export controls brain trust, and strengthen your strategy? At ACI’s Advanced Forum on Global Export Controls, you’ll connect...more

Loeb & Loeb LLP

CPPA Acts to Enforce Against Data Brokers' Failure to Register

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The California Privacy Protection Agency (known as CalPrivacy) recently published its latest enforcement strikes against two data brokers for failing to register. ...more

Morgan Lewis

Counting the Days: Fifth Circuit Reverses Texas Hospitals’ DSH Rule Challenge

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The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on December 9, 2025 reversed and remanded a decision from the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas that had vacated a 2023 federal regulation that threatened to...more

Kilpatrick

From Transparency to Oversight: New York’s RAISE Act Raises the Bar for Frontier AI Developers

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On December 19, 2025, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Assembly Bill A6453-A, the Responsible AI Safety and Education Act (RAISE Act), into law.The statute establishes a targeted framework governing the development and...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

[Webinar] Microsoft 365 Copilot | Key eDiscovery and Information Governance Considerations for In-House Legal Teams - January...

Microsoft Copilot for In-House Legal and IG Teams: A Two-Part Webinar Series - As Microsoft Copilot continues to reshape the digital workplace, legal teams face new challenges and emerging opportunities in managing data,...more

K2 Integrity

Shadow AI Governance: How To Manage Hidden GenAI Risks Without Killing Innovation

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Shadow AI governance has become a critical challenge as organizations accelerate generative AI adoption faster than enterprise controls can keep up. Over the past two years, organizations have raced through every stage of the...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Hiding in the Shadows: The Perils of Shadow AI on Your Organization

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is continuing to transform workplaces at a rapid pace; however, alongside the often-sanctioned deployment of tools like Microsoft Copilot or Google Gemini, a quieter trend has emerged: Shadow AI....more

Womble Bond Dickinson

NIH Hits Pause: The SBIR/STTR Freeze Shaking America’s Innovation Pipeline

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) ended all active Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding opportunities. (see NIH’s Notice NOT-OD-26-006)....more

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints

Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure Client Feature — January 2026

This month we’re pleased to feature our client, Wilmington Trust, N.A. A leader in institutional client services and wealth management, Wilmington Trust is a subsidiary of M&T Bank that offers corporate trust, custody,...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Q&A: CFTC Outlook and Digital Asset Regulation with Orrick Partner Dan Ullman

Can you describe how the CFTC fits in the financial regulatory space, both historically and now?...more

Mintz - Energy & Sustainability Viewpoints

Washington Update: Sustainable Energy & Infrastructure — January 2026

While the full implications of the events in Venezuela are still being assessed, there has been plenty of other news in the energy policy space to round out 2025. This month’s update covers major congressional action on...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Maine settles with crypto kiosk operator for $1.9M over alleged unlicensed activity and consumer protection failures

On January 5, the Maine Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection (BCCP) announced it has entered into a consent agreement with a virtual currency kiosk operator, resolving its dispute over alleged unlicensed money transmission...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

New York enacts landmark AI transparency law

On December 19, the governor of New York enacted the Responsible AI Safety and Education Act (RAISE Act), amending the state’s general business law to provide transparency requirements and guardrails on the training and use...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

FDA Eases Oversight for AI-Enabled Clinical Decision Support Software and Wearables

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary announced policy shifts that ease the path to market for certain digital health technologies, including AI- and generative AI-enabled clinical decision support software (CDS) and consumer...more

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