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Ballard Spahr LLP

New Leadership at the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs Signals Potential Overhaul of Affirmative Action Compliance...

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On March 24, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor announced the appointment of Catherine Eschbach as Director of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the agency charged with overseeing regulation and...more

Conn Kavanaugh

Preparing Your Company for Increased Immigration Enforcement and ICE Raids

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Under the current administration, immigration enforcement has significantly increased, with executive orders expanding the authority of Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) to arrest and detain undocumented individuals....more

Cornerstone Research

SEC Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Activity Plummeted in Final Year of Gensler Administration

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) drastically reduced its accounting and auditing enforcement activity in fiscal year 2024, the final year of Gary Gensler’s administration, ending two consecutive years of...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Implementing the President’s Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative (Trump EO Tracker)

This order directs agency heads along with their DOGE team lead to build a centralized system within each agency to record every payment issued by the agency pursuant to contracts and grants, as well as a system that...more

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Fresh Amendments to Law On Financial Audit Authority: Offending Employees Now Face Travel Ban and Asset Seizure

The Emirate of Dubai has recently passed new amendments to the existing “Dubai Law No. 4/2018 on the Establishment of the Financial Audit Authority” (“LAW”). As per the new amendments, financial fraud and misconduct in...more

Buchalter

New Year, New Rules: Turning Up the Heat on California’s 2025 Employment Law Changes

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As the new year approaches, several critical legislative changes in employment law will take effect on January 1, 2025, unless specified otherwise. California employers face a dynamic regulatory landscape in 2025, with...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

PCAOB Delays NOCLAR Rulemaking to 2025 Amid Controversy and Election-Year Dynamics

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The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) delayed the adoption of a final rule with respect to its June 2023 proposal (Proposal) to increase auditors’ responsibility to evaluate and disclose a public company’s...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

California Legislature Sends Bills Regulating AI to the Governor

Last week, the California Legislature passed several bills that, if signed by the governor, will regulate how organizations develop, train, and use artificial intelligence (AI) models, systems, and applications. Of these...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The IRS Is Coming for Partnerships and High Net Wealth Individuals

The Internal Revenue Service plans to deploy thousands of new hires to expand audits of partnerships and high net wealth individuals. As part of a larger transformation at the agency, it is using some of the $60 billion in...more

Conyers

New Rules on Corporate Governance and Internal Controls Coming into Effect on 14 October 2023

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There are only 9 days until all licensed insurers are required to comply with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority’s (“CIMA”) new Rule on Corporate Governance (the “Rule”) (which replaces the Rule on Corporate Governance for...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Regulating AI: Litigation Questions And State Efforts To Watch

This second part of a two-part series on U.S. regulation of artificial intelligence systems highlights state legislation and litigation to watch concerning AI systems, and provides practical takeaways as we look toward the...more

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Sweeping PCAOB Proposal Seeking to Alter Auditors’ Role in Detecting Noncompliance Is Likely to Entangle Auditors in Complicated...

On June 6, 2023, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (“PCAOB”) proposed new auditing standards that would substantially broaden auditors’ responsibilities for considering an audit client’s noncompliance with laws...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

[Event] Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference - August 5th, Philadelphia, PA

Looking for compliance training and networking in your area? HCCA’s Regional Healthcare Compliance Conferences offer practitioners convenient, local compliance training, including updates on the latest news in regulatory...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Adopts Interim Final Rules to Implement the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act

On March 24, 2021, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted interim final rules to implement portions of the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (the HFCA Act), which was signed into law by President...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Adopts Interim Amendments for the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act

The SEC has adopted interim final amendments to Form 10-K, Form 20-F, Form 40-F, and Form N-CSR to implement the disclosure and submission requirements of the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act, or the HFCA Act....more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Enforcement Relief: What New Regulatory Reforms Could Mean for Hospices

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The Trump Administration has shown an interest in regulatory reform with the goal of reducing the burden on regulated parties such as hospices. This has recently come to the forefront as part of the administration’s efforts...more

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U.S. DOL Plans to Review Contractor Affirmative Action Certification

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On August 3, 2018, the head of the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) contractor enforcement office announced that the DOL intends to identify and audit contractors who fail to certify their affirmative action compliance to the...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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A nearly $5 billion deal between French energy company Total and the oil and gas arm of Danish shipping giant Maersk is making waves this morning. Total will also assume a few tankers-full of Maersk Oil’s debt....more

King & Spalding

Brexit Trade Audit: A Five-Step Guide to Help Determine the Way Forward

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Companies doing business in the UK or from the UK should be looking to “future-proof” their operations following the UK’s recent vote to leave the European Union. A Brexit audit is one way of determining the possible impact...more

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