Regulatory Standards, Disclosure

OCR Finalizes Post-Dobbs HIPAA Regulatory Changes Impacting Health Care Organizations

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C. on 6/24/2024

On April 22, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced final regulatory updates to the Privacy Rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of...more

New standards require planning, policies, and procedures

Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics... on 11/6/2023

On July 31, the European Commission adopted the first set of rules under the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). The ESRS is an important follow-up to the adoption of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting...more

Crosscurrents: J.S. Held’s Environmental, Social & Governance Observations

J.S. Held on 9/29/2022

Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (“ESG”) data collecting and reporting are among the fastest changing, most highly watched, and most complicated corporate obligations today. Interestingly, in the United States,...more

Advertising in the Metaverse

Fenwick & West LLP on 5/12/2022

The Metaverse is the newest way in which brands are thinking about engaging with existing and new customers. Wendy’s, for example, launched “Wendyverse” in Meta’s Horizon Worlds where users can engage virtually with the...more

EU Securitisation Regulation - European Commission Publishes Final Disclosure Templates Expected to Apply from February 2020

Dechert LLP on 10/31/2019

No Good News, but No Bad News Either - On 16 October 2019 the European Commission (EC) adopted a delegated regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 (the Securitisation Regulation) and setting out the final...more

Massachusetts Federal Court Issues New Rules Governing Patent Litigation

Goulston & Storrs PC on 6/1/2018

These new Patent Rules replace the prior version of Local Rule 16.6 and aim to streamline patent cases by providing consistency and expediency. ...more