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Effective Date: December 24, 2025 Scope: All Tax and Legal Deadlines (IRS and State Filings, Payments, Legal Notices, Contracts) - For decades, taxpayers and legal professionals have relied on the "mailbox rule": if a...more
Effective January 1, 2026, Senate Bill 464 (SB 464) has fundamentally transformed California’s annual pay data reporting framework for employers. The Civil Rights Department (CRD), California's enforcement agency, now has the...more
Key Takeaways - California now mandates venture capital (VC) firms to report diversity data on founding teams they fund. March and April 2026 deadlines require firm and team demographic disclosures via forms...more
or taxpayers with unresolved issues with the IRS, the best time to address them is about to be now, before any special agent “knocks at the door.” On December 22, 2025, IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) proposed updates...more
Much like any other business, owning and managing short-term rental property is subject to provincial and municipal regulatory regimes....more
On January 6, 2026, the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) issued a precedential order against a major global container‑shipping and logistics provider levying over $22 million in civil penalties and offering key compliance...more
Puerto Rico (PR) OSHA has issued a public notice announcing revisions to the fines and penalties imposed on employers for noncompliance with adopted OSHA standards, effective as of November 3, the date of the notice’s...more
On Dec. 4, the New York City Council overrode Mayor Eric Adams’ veto of two bills (Int. No. 982-A and 984-A) that will require private employers with 200 or more employees in New York City to report employee pay data by race...more
In this episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast, host Chris Willis is joined by Troutman Pepper Locke Partner Lori Sommerfield and Charles River Associates VP and Practice Leader of Financial Economics Marsha Courchane to...more
The UK Payments System Regulator (PSR) has published a compliance report on Specific Direction 17 which mandated the implementation of its name checking service, Confirmation of Payee (CoP), by UK payment service providers...more
On November 24, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced a $4,677,552 civil monetary penalty against an anonymous U.S. individual (referred to only as “U.S. Person-1”)...more
The Dutch Data Protection Authority (“AP“) has imposed a fine of €2.7 million on Experian Nederland B.V. (“Experian“) for breaches the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR“)....more
On October 30, 2025, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued two decisions interpreting European Union law regulating mass dismissals, or “collective redundancies,” ruling that technical mistakes or noncompliance with...more
Nasdaq has put forward a proposal that would significantly tighten its approach to companies falling out of compliance with listing standards. The proposal is still in the public comment phase with a statutory decision...more
On October 26, 2025, the Chief Revenue Officer of Snowflake Inc. appeared to overstep the bounds of Regulation Fair Disclosure (“Reg FD”) when he made statements regarding Snowflake’s future financial results during an...more
Owners and operators of facilities subject to permitting under the Clean Air Act’s Title V permit program have cause for rejoicing. Title V permittees have just seen their fortunes improve, if only in a narrow way, with the...more
Joshua S. Bauchner, Partner in the Landlord-Tenant and Litigation Practice Groups at Mandelbaum Barrett PC, recently joined the Commercial Real Estate Pro Network podcast channel with J. Darrin Gross to discuss a growing...more
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 931 on Oct. 10, 2025, largely freezing California lawyers' ability to experiment with and accommodate the development of burgeoning Alternative Business Structures (ABS)...more
Beginning January 1, 2026, the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission will enforce new civil penalties for self-insurers and insurance carriers who fail to make required reports under Code of Virginia § 65.2-902(a)....more
Supplemental Examination (SE)—established by 35 U.S.C. § 257 of the America Invents Act—provides patent owner a mechanism to request the Patent Office (the “Office”) consider, reconsider, or correct information believed to be...more
After a year lead time, audits of Section 111 reporting compliance will begin starting October 11, 2025 for the prior reporting year. Parties/providers settling claims with Medicare beneficiaries (called Responsible Reporting...more
The agreement announcing the names of the holders and the numbers of the manufacturing, factory and export services programs (Industria Manufacturera, Maquiladora y de Servicios de Exportación or IMMEX) that have been...more
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (“ODEQ”) issued a July 17th Notice of Civil Penalty Assessment and Order (“Assessment”) to BBC Steel Corp. (“BBC”) alleging a violation of a Clean Water Act National Pollutant...more
We recently wrote about a federal case here and here involving key issues related to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) authority to enforce the Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking Act (PACT Act)...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) filed a Complaint and Notice of Opportunity for Hearing (“Complaint”) against Unitek Solvent Services, Inc. (“Unitek”) on August 6th alleging violations of the Hawaii...more