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(Podcast) The Briefing: Influencer Fail – ALO Yoga & Influencers Named in $150M Class Action Lawsuit for FTC Violations
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Compliance into the Weeds: Leaving on a (Qatari) Jet Plane
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Choosing Your LDA Reporting Path for 2025
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 305: Spotlight on Civil Procedure (Part 2 – Discovery)
Compliance Tip of the Day: Clarifying Compliance Mandates
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: How to Use the Restatement of Consumer Contracts - A Guide for Judges
Compliance Tip of the Day: Corporate Leaks and Compliance
Greenhushing: What It Is & Why It Matters
(Podcast) The Briefing: Navigating the Legal Risks for Brands in Social Media Marketing – Part 2 (Archive)
The Briefing: Navigating the Legal Risks for Brands in Social Media Marketing – Part 2 (Archive)
AI Washing: Simple Guidance to Avoid Risk
Tech Debt is Common. What does it mean for IPO readiness from a cybersecurity perspective?
Episode 332 -- Deep Dive into SEC’s Internal Controls and Cybersecurity Settlement with R&R Donnelly
Mitigating Political-Law Risk
The Preferred Return Podcast | AIFMD II – Implementation Begins
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Meeting the Proposed SEC Climate Disclosure Requirements
In a procedural decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the CARS Rule (officially, the Combatting Auto Retail Scams Trade Regulation Rule, sometimes known as the Vehicle Shopping Rule) which was...more
Securities and Exchange Commission rulemaking continued at a brisk pace in the first quarter of 2023 as the Commission implemented several significant reporting and compliance regulations adopted in 2022. Final rules and...more
On August 25, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted rules that amend Item 402 of Regulation S-K to require reporting companies to disclose information detailing the relationship between a company’s...more
On June 11, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced its Spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (RegFlex Agenda). The RegFlex Agenda sets forth the short-term and long-term regulatory...more
Last week, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs released the Spring 2021 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, which includes the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rulemaking agenda....more
As noted yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed to amend Form SD to implement Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Because the proposed rules relate to...more
The SEC is proposing Rule 13q-1 and an amendment to Form SD to implement Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “DoddFrank Act”) relating to disclosure of payments by resource...more
The upcoming Securities and Exchange Commission open meeting for December 18, 2019 will now address additional rulemaking....more
In a very unusual lawsuit, attorneys general from seven states and the District of Columbia recently sued the SEC, and its chair, Jay Clayton, for declaratory and injunctive relief seeking to block the effectiveness of...more
On November 16, 2018, the American Bar Association’s Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities hosted a dialogue with William Hinman, Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Director of the Division of Corporation...more
On October 17, 2018, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (BCFP), formerly known as the CFPB, announced that it plans to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA)...more
Increased Rule 701 threshold provides greater flexibility and reduces compliance costs for non-reporting companies. Recently enacted legislation rolling back Dodd-Frank directs the SEC to increase the Rule 701 enhanced...more
On September 2, the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts ordered the SEC to file with the District Court in 30 days an expedited schedule for promulgating a final resource extraction issuer disclosure rule as...more
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act imposed a requirement on the SEC in Section 1504 to promulgate a disclosure rule regarding certain extraction payments involving resource issuers within 270 days of passage or by April...more
A U.S. District Court has handed a victory to Oxfam America in its efforts to compel the SEC to complete rulemaking on the Dodd-Frank mandate regarding resource extraction disclosures (Section 1504). ...more
Yesterday, a federal judge ordered the SEC to file with the court an expedited schedule for promulgating final rules requiring disclosure of government payments by resource extraction issuers. The SEC has 30 days to file the...more
The WSJ reports that three Republican congressman — House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, and Reps. Scott Garrett and Bill Huizenga — have written to SEC Chair Mary Jo White urging that the SEC stop...more
In 2013 the United States District Court for the District of Columbia vacated the SEC resource extraction disclosure rules that were mandated by Section 1504 of the Dodd-Frank Act. Fifty-eight Democratic lawmakers have...more
SEC Commissioner Kara M. Stein recently gave remarks on the status of required Dodd-Frank rulemakings. The pay ratio, claw back, conflict minerals and resources extraction rules didn’t really seem all that important to her...more