Compliance

  • October 07, 2025

    Firefighters' Union Drops PFAS Suit Against Safety Group

    A firefighters' union has dropped a 2023 lawsuit in Massachusetts state court accusing a fire safety organization of ignoring the cancer risk of "forever chemicals" in maintaining safety standards that continued to call for their use in firefighting gear.

  • October 07, 2025

    Fla. Lawyer Accused Of Scamming Clients Suspended

    A Florida lawyer accused of abandoning dozens of clients after charging them legal fees has been suspended from practicing law in the state on an emergency basis.

  • October 07, 2025

    FDIC, OCC Rule Proposals Seek To Rein In Bank Supervision

    Federal banking regulators on Tuesday unveiled a pair of proposed curbs on their supervision programs that would formally ban the use of reputation risk as an exam factor and constrain what examiners can call out for criticism as an "unsafe or unsound" practice.

  • October 06, 2025

    Supreme Court Won't Review Russian Bank Jet Crash Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to undo a precedential Second Circuit decision finding that Sberbank of Russia must face Anti-Terrorism Act litigation related to the 2014 downing of a commercial airliner over eastern Ukraine, rejecting the bank's argument it is entitled to sovereign immunity.

  • October 06, 2025

    OCC To Ease Exams, Simplify Licensing For Smaller Banks

    The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency moved Monday to ease its oversight of banks with under $30 billion in assets, rolling out policy changes that include cutting back on their exam requirements and potentially expanding their access to expedited licensing options.

  • October 06, 2025

    FINRA Fines Ga. Broker-Dealer After Reps Forged Signatures

    The broker-dealer unit of Synovus Financial Corp. will pay $315,000 to settle Financial Industry Regulatory Authority claims that a records review oversight prevented the firm from spotting an emerging "pattern of forging and falsifying customer electronic signatures" at one of its branches.

  • October 06, 2025

    Scooters Aren't Securities, Court Told In Bid To Toss SEC Suit

    A scooter rental company urged a Florida federal court to dismiss a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit alleging it misled hundreds of investors to raise $4 million, saying the goods it offered aren't regulated by the agency. 

  • October 06, 2025

    Ex-UBS Reps Can't Solicit Bank Clients Amid Arbitration

    UBS Financial Services has secured a preliminary injunction blocking former UBS advisers from soliciting the firm's account holders while arbitration accusing the representatives of violating nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreements proceeds, a decision the defendants say is the result of a mutual agreement between the parties.

  • October 06, 2025

    ​​​​​​​Broadcasters Say FCC Can Nix Nat'l Ownership Cap. It's Iffy

    Top TV station chains insist the Federal Communications Commission has clear authority to scrap a decades-old cap on national audience share controlled by any one company. But they're wading into a murky legal area almost certain to prompt a flood of litigation.

  • October 06, 2025

    Baltimore Sues Fintech Over Digital Payday Lending Scheme

    The city of Baltimore has sued MoneyLion in Maryland state court, accusing the fintech company of violating local consumer protection laws by disguising high-interest payday loans as "Instacash Advances" and trapping low-income residents in cycles of debt through excessive fees and "tips."

  • October 06, 2025

    'We Paid Him': Ex-VP Testifies In Former Budget Official's Trial

    Former Connecticut school construction grant director Konstantinos Diamantis claimed he was drowning in bills and increasingly demanded money when a masonry contractor didn't immediately pay kickbacks on the timeline he wanted, the construction company's onetime vice-president testified Monday.

  • October 06, 2025

    Labor, Energy Groups Challenge EPA's $7B Solar Cancellation

    A coalition of the labor and solar energy industry players on Monday alleged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency violated the Constitution and federal law by canceling a $7 billion program providing solar equipment to low-income households.

  • October 06, 2025

    Utah Bank Is No 'Dummy' Lender, OppFi Says In Calif. Fight

    Opportunity Financial is looking to close the book on California's banking regulator's claims that it illegally evaded the state's interest rate caps through a sham lending partnership with an out-of-state bank, arguing in a summary judgment bid that its Utah partner, FinWise Bank, is the lawful lender and therefore exempt from California's rate limits.

  • October 06, 2025

    Supreme Court Isn't Pausing Google Play Store Order

    The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to pause a sweeping injunction requiring Google to change its app store policies in a case being brought by Epic Games Inc., after the tech giant argued that the changes threaten the security and privacy of Android users.

  • October 06, 2025

    Supreme Court Won't Look At FTC's Telemarketing Rule

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to the way the Federal Communications Commission defines an outbound sales call, denying a certiorari petition from two sales companies challenging their liability for dialing numbers on the Do Not Call Registry because they weren't selling anything.

  • October 06, 2025

    Suit Aims To 'Claw Back' Kalshi's Ga. Predictions Proceeds

    Kalshi Inc. and Robinhood are among a slew of defendants who have been sued in Georgia over allegations that the companies' so-called prediction markets are sidestepping the Peach State's ban on gambling, adding to a growing roster of litigation stemming from the companies' business practices.

  • October 06, 2025

    Meta Accused Of Retaliation In Pregnancy Discrimination Suit

    A former manager for Meta claims in a lawsuit filed in California federal court Friday that the company discriminated against her for pregnancy-related leave, giving her unfair reviews and overloading her with work before firing her weeks after she reported bias to the human resources department.

  • October 06, 2025

    Google Judge Anticipates 'Fine-Tuning' Ad Tech Remedies

    The Justice Department and Google questioned their last witnesses Monday in a fight over whether to break up the company's advertising placement technology business, in a two-hour hearing with a rebuttal witness, a rare surrebuttal witness, and an acknowledgment from the Virginia federal judge overseeing the case that even after she delivers her final judgment, it might need revisions in the future. 

  • October 06, 2025

    Coinbase Seeks OCC Charter To Expand Custody Business

    Crypto exchange Coinbase is seeking a national trust company charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to expand its custody business and related services, joining a growing number of digital asset firms pursuing federal bank charters.

  • October 06, 2025

    Puerto Rico Finance Board Members' Removal Paused

    A federal district court judge blocked President Donald Trump's removal of three members of the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico who had accused the president of illegally firing them without cause.

  • October 06, 2025

    Justices Asked To Narrow Honest Services Fraud In FIFA Case

    A South American sports marketing firm has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review its reinstated bribery convictions, arguing that the Second Circuit's "extreme" application of honest services fraud law expanded the ability to secure convictions based on a private code of conduct.

  • October 06, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    Last week, the owner of the Kentucky Derby was hit with a suit accusing it of withholding escrow funds for environmental compliance violations owed under a 2022 deal with hospitality company Enchantment Holdings LLC.

  • October 06, 2025

    Grassley Probes Judges' Possible AI Use In Faulty Rulings

    Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed two federal judges on Monday about their possible use of artificial intelligence in court orders that contained a multitude of errors.

  • October 06, 2025

    Hagens Berman Fights Sanctions Over Thalidomide Suits

    Plaintiffs firm Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP strenuously denied claims that it should be sanctioned for filing since-dropped product liability cases, responding to a judge's show cause order by saying it spent hundreds of hours researching the legal theories it pursued before filing the cases and devoted substantial time and resources to them.

  • October 06, 2025

    Atty Sanctioned For 'Reckless' AI Use In DC FCA Case

    An attorney who admitted to relying on generative artificial intelligence to help craft a brief that contained errors in all of its nine citations, was ordered to pay fee sanctions in a judge's order that emphasized attorneys should stick to the fundamentals taught in law school: "check your legal citations for accuracy."

Expert Analysis

  • White House Report Strikes An Optimistic Note On Crypto

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    Taking seriously President Donald Trump's pledge to adopt a pro-innovation mindset toward digital assets and blockchain technologies, a recent benchmark White House report on crypto provides a comprehensive regulatory framework that takes into account the products' novel characteristics within the high-tech ecosystem, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

  • ICJ Climate Opinion Raises Cos.' Legal, Compliance Risks

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    The International Court of Justice's recent advisory opinion on governments' climate change obligations could have important consequences for the regulated community — including a more complex compliance landscape, heightened legal risks for carbon-intensive activities, and renewed market and investor focus on climate issues, says J. Michael Showalter at ArentFox Schiff.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Negotiation Skills

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    I took one negotiation course in law school, but most of the techniques I rely on today I learned in practice, where I've discovered that the process is less about tricks or tactics, and more about clarity, preparation and communication, says Grant Schrantz at Haug Barron.

  • Conflicting Developments In Homelessness Legal Landscape

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    Looking at an executive order and Third Circuit opinion from last month highlights the ongoing tension in homelessness-related legal issues facing state and local governments, property owners, and individuals experiencing homelessness, says Josh Collins, an attorney for the City of South Salt Lake.

  • AG Watch: Texas Embraces The MAHA Movement

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    Attorneys at Kelley Drye examine Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's actions related to the federal Make America Healthy Again movement, and how these actions hinge on representations or omissions by the target companies as opposed to specific analyses of the potential health risks.

  • DOJ Whistleblower Program May Fuel Criminal Antitrust Tack

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    A recently launched Justice Department program that provides rewards for reporting antitrust crimes related to the U.S. Postal Service will serve to supplement the department’s leniency program, signaling an ambition to expand criminal enforcement while deepening collaboration across agencies, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • How Community Banks Can Limit Overdraft Class Action Risk

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    With community banks increasingly confronted with class actions claiming deceptive overdraft fees, local institutions should consider proactively revising their customer policies and agreements to limit their odds of facing costly and complicated consumer litigation, say attorneys at Jones Walker.

  • Opinion

    Bar Exam Reform Must Expand Beyond A Single Updated Test

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    Recently released information about the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ new NextGen Uniform Bar Exam highlights why a single test is not ideal for measuring newly licensed lawyers’ competency, demonstrating the need for collaborative development, implementation and reform processes, says Gregory Bordelon at Suffolk University.

  • How States Are Regulating Health Insurers' AI Usage

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    The absence of a federal artificial intelligence framework positions states as key regulators of health insurers’ AI use, making it important for payors and service providers to understand the range of state AI legislation being passed in California and elsewhere, and consider implementing an AI-focused compliance infrastructure, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Export Misconduct Resolutions Emphasize BIS, DOJ Priorities

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's and Bureau of Industry and Security's recently resolved parallel enforcement actions against semiconductor technology company Cadence Design demonstrate the agencies' prioritization of penalties for export control violations involving China, as well as the importance of voluntary self-disclosure, say attorneys at Fenwick.

  • Disney Art Suit Will Test Recent AI Fair Use Boundaries

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    While the first U.S. rulings to address the issue recently held that it's fair use for generative artificial intelligence models to train on certain copyrighted books without permission, Disney v. Midjourney, filed in June, will test the limits of the fair use framework in a visual art context, says Rob Rosenberg at Moses & Singer.

  • Location Data And Online Tracking Trends To Watch

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    Regulators and class action plaintiffs are increasingly targeting companies' use of online tracking technologies and geolocation data in both privacy enforcement and litigation, so organizations should view compliance as a dynamic, cross-functional responsibility as scrutiny becomes increasingly aggressive and multifaceted, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

  • HHS Plan To Cut Immigrant Benefits Spurs Provider Questions

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    A recent notice from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services identifying new federal public benefit programs for which nonqualified aliens are not eligible may have a major impact on entities that participate in these programs — but many questions remain unanswered, say attorneys at Foley.

  • A Simple Way Courts Can Help Attys Avoid AI Hallucinations

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    As attorneys increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence for legal research, courts should consider expanding online quality control programs to flag potential hallucinations — permitting counsel to correct mistakes and sparing judges the burden of imposing sanctions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl and Connors.

  • Opinion

    SEC Should Restore Its 2020 Proxy Adviser Rule

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    Due to concerns over proxy advisers' accuracy, reliability and transparency, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should reinstate its 2020 rule designed to suppress the influence that they wield in shareholder voting, says Kyle Isakower at the American Council for Capital Formation.

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