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Weathering the 2025 Whirlwind: How to Keep Calm & Carry On
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The Future of Auto Dealership Compliance: A Conversation With Tom Kline — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 11: Signal and Noise: The New Administration, Privacy, and Our Digital Rights with Cindy Cohn of Electronic Frontier Foundation
State Regulators Step Up: Responding to the CFPB's New Leadership — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
We are pleased to share with you our latest publication, “Navigating Change: First 100 Days under the Trump Administration,” authored by our Digital Assets + Blockchain team. This retrospective examines the pivotal...more
Rescinds several executive orders made during the Biden-Harris administration. A continuation of Executive Order 14148 from January 20, 2025 which rescinded 78 Presidential orders and memoranda issued by then-President Biden....more
Season 5 of State AG Pulse kicks off with State AG Group attorneys Chris Allen and Ann-Marie Luciano in conversation with Vice-Chair of Cozen O’Connor’s Labor & Employment Group, Mike Schmidt, on the Trump administration’s...more
This session will provide insights for financial services entities regarding: (1) interpretation of the impact of the recent Executive Orders and early actions of the appointees; (2) status on key appointees and their Day 1...more
I’ve always taken the position that, no matter how much I disagree with the President, the Senate should confirm his executive branch nominees (nominations to the Judicial Branch are different, since judges don’t work for the...more
With an across-the-board freeze on all rulemaking, enforcement, and supervisory activities, and a potential mass lay-off in the works, the CFPB continues to make news. Here’s a recap of all that happened this past week at the...more
The Trump administration has taken two actions that will dramatically increase White House control over federal commissions, boards, and officials that were previously considered independent. These actions are likely to...more
Amidst a blitz of executive action, on February 18, President Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled “Ensuring Accountability for all Agencies” (Executive Order) exerting more direct control over “independent...more
On February 19, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order (the “Order”) mandating that independent agencies, including the SEC, the FCC, and the FTC, submit proposed regulations for presidential review before...more
On January 31, the Trump Administration issued Executive Order 14912, titled “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation” (the “Regulatory EO”), the purpose of which is to “promote prudent financial management and alleviate...more
On February 10, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order and accompanying fact sheet directing U.S. Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi to pause the initiation of new investigations and enforcement actions, and to...more
On February 10, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14209, titled “Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security,” with the stated purpose of eliminating...more
President Trump signed an executive order ("EO") titled "Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology" that signals a radical shift in the federal government's posture towards digital assets and the...more
President Trump, on January 31, 2025, issued Executive Order 14192, “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation.” This has been referred to as President Trump’s “ten-to-one deregulation initiative” that he spoke about when he...more
On February 10, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) directing Attorney General (AG) Pam Bondi to pause enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) until new enforcement guidelines and...more
On January 31, President Trump announced that he signed Executive Order 14192 focusing on deregulation efforts such as requiring federal agencies to repeal at least ten existing rules or regulations for every new one...more
Good Afternoon! U.S. Chamber launches space leadership council, Crew 9 has to stay…just a little bit longer, and new executive orders spur reviews, revisions and other activity across U.S. space agencies, and Akin’s Micheal...more
Among the blizzard of executive orders issued following his inauguration, President Trump revoked former President Biden’s executive order addressing artificial intelligence (AI). A few days later, on January 23, 2025,...more
As expected, President Trump took action on the first day of his new term to revoke the landmark 2023 Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that was the centerpiece of the Biden Administration’s approach to AI....more
President Trump on Monday issued an Executive Order that prohibits most federal agencies from issuing proposed rules until an administration-appointed agency head reviews the regulation....more
“President Trump is seen above all else as a disruptor hell-bent on upsetting the established ways of governing. However, even disruption itself has to follow a process in Washington.” — Howard Schweitzer, CEO, Cozen O’Connor...more
Open models play a crucial role in fostering a diverse and innovative AI ecosystem. But their irrevocable accessibility also presents challenges for preventing downstream misuse—and that has caught the government’s attention....more
Recently, New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposed sweeping artificial intelligence (AI) regulatory measures intended to protect against untrustworthy and fraudulent uses of AI. Presented as part of her FY 2025 Executive...more
AI is here to stay. The development and use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) is rapidly growing in the healthcare landscape with no signs of slowing down. From a governmental perspective, many federal agencies are embracing...more
In this episode of OnAir with Akin, lobbying and public policy partner Hans Rickhoff, senior counsel Reggie Babin and international trade counsel Alan Hayes discuss the current state of AI policy, with a specific focus on the...more