Compliance

  • January 30, 2026

    Insurer Says No Coverage For $105M Fatal Crash Judgment

    An insurer for a trucking company told a Texas federal court Friday that it owes no coverage for a $105 million judgment over a fatal collision, saying the policyholder does not qualify as an insured since the crash did not involve a vehicle listed under the policy.

  • January 30, 2026

    Judge Keeps Ethiopians' TPS Status In Place For Now

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday extended temporary protected status for about 5,000 Ethiopians living in the United States, temporarily blocking a directive from the Trump administration that sought to rescind their legal status.

  • January 30, 2026

    Drugmakers Ask To Appeal Overarching Conspiracy Claim

    A group of pharmaceutical companies that failed to secure a pretrial win on an overarching conspiracy claim in a sprawling generic-drug antitrust enforcement action is asking a Connecticut federal judge to let them seek Second Circuit review, saying the ruling raises a novel legal issue.

  • January 30, 2026

    FCC Urges Cos. To Tamp Down Ransomware Risks

    The Federal Communications Commission called on companies to take tough measures against ransomware attacks and report data breaches and outages from cybersecurity incidents.

  • January 30, 2026

    Ex-TD Bank Employee Cops To Helping Launder Drug Money

    A former TD Bank NA employee who worked in Florida has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and assisting in a money laundering scheme that illicitly sent millions of dollars in narcotics proceeds from the United States to Colombia while employed by the bank.

  • January 30, 2026

    FTC Requires Facility Sales For $835M Healthcare Deal

    The Federal Trade Commission reached an agreement Friday allowing Sevita Health to move ahead with an $835 million deal for BrightSpring Health Services Inc.'s community living business, conditioned on the sale of more than 100 facilities.

  • January 30, 2026

    NCAA Eyes Outreach, Not Overhaul, In Hoops Betting Scandal

    This month's rash of indictments over alleged point-shaving in college basketball seems unlikely to prompt immediate wholesale changes within the NCAA, with the organization instead looking outward to address the threats posed by risky wagers offered on its games.

  • January 30, 2026

    FTC Warns 42 Law Firms Of DEI 'Anticompetitive Collusion'

    The Federal Trade Commission announced Friday that it has sent warning letters to 42 major law firms for their purported participation in an outside diversity, equity and inclusion program, alleging their participation could constitute anticompetitive collusion.

  • January 30, 2026

    Virginia Senators Ask DHS IG To Investigate Surveillance Tech

    Virginia's Democratic senators have urged the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's inspector general to investigate the agency's technology procurement amid the Trump administration's immigration enforcement push, warning that DHS' various information collection tools put Americans' privacy rights under threat.

  • January 30, 2026

    DOJ Requires Divestitures For Reddy Ice-Arctic Glacier Tie-Up

    The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division is forcing Reddy Ice to divest assets in five geographic areas in order to win approval for a $126 million acquisition of competitor Arctic Glacier.

  • January 30, 2026

    Amazon Says Shoppers' Labeling Suit Is Corrupted By AI Errors

    In customers' latest filing in their proposed class action accusing Amazon of failing to make required disclosures on dietary supplement product pages, the e-commerce giant alleges that the plaintiffs have submitted a document riddled with errors derived from the use of generative text.

  • January 30, 2026

    GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

    When Minnesota-based companies publicly called for de-escalation after two fatal shootings by federal ICE agents, the nation saw how CEOs and their general counsel can step up amid controversy. And a new study shows that white collar offenders received more than half of all recent pardons. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

  • January 30, 2026

    Drug Cos. Want Rethink Of DQ Bid Targeting Ex-Prosecutor  

    More than two dozen pharmaceutical companies accused of fixing generic-drug prices have again asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to disqualify a former Connecticut assistant attorney general now in private practice from representing insurers Humana Inc. and Molina Healthcare Inc. in a sprawling multidistrict litigation proceeding.

  • January 30, 2026

    Sidley Welcomes Back International Trade Partner In DC

    A Baker McKenzie international trade partner who previously worked with the U.S. Department of Commerce is returning to Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C., rejoining the same trade team he spent about nine years with before leaving for his most recent role, the firm announced.

  • January 30, 2026

    Judge Signs Off On Idaho Mine Pollution Settlement

    An Idaho federal judge has approved a proposed consent decree calling for two Nu-West companies and the U.S. government to share costs to implement remediation work for a North Maybe Mine site in Caribou County.

  • January 30, 2026

    Prosecutors Can't Revive RICO Case Against NJ Powerbroker

    The New Jersey Appellate Division on Friday rejected a bid from state prosecutors to revive the criminal racketeering case against South Jersey powerbroker George Norcross and several others, finding that the allegations either did not amount to crimes or were brought too late.

  • January 30, 2026

    Warsh Clinches Trump's Nomination For Fed Chair

    President Donald Trump is nominating former Federal Reserve Gov. Kevin Warsh to lead the central bank as its next chairman, elevating a critic of the Fed's leadership as the White House pushes against its traditional independence.

  • January 29, 2026

    Fed's Master Account Stance Goes Too Far, 2nd Circ. Told

    The Federal Reserve's claim of broad discretion to cut financial institutions off from master accounts could turn these U.S. payment system gateways into potential tools of partisan warfare, an attorney for a Puerto Rico bank told a Second Circuit panel Thursday.

  • January 29, 2026

    Ex-Morgan Stanley Adviser Conned NBA Players, Jury Hears

    A Manhattan federal prosecutor Thursday told jurors that a former Morgan Stanley adviser defrauded three NBA players out of millions of dollars through investments in wildly marked up life insurance policies, while defense counsel said the case was built on lies by a former client.

  • January 29, 2026

    NC Vape Sale Limits Face Preemption Test At 4th Circ.

    Counsel for vape manufacturers and sellers implored the Fourth Circuit Thursday to agree with an interpretation of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that would preempt a new North Carolina law that regulates and prohibits the sale of certain e-cigarette or "vape" products.

  • January 29, 2026

    Ex-Synapse Compliance Chief Settles FINRA Supervisory Case

    The former chief compliance officer of a subsidiary of bankrupt fintech company Synapse has agreed to a $20,000 fine and yearlong suspension to settle the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's allegations he failed to preserve certain books and records ahead of the firm's collapse.

  • January 29, 2026

    OppFi Says It's Not Pulling Calif. 'Dummy Lender' Scheme

    An attorney for Opportunity Financial LLC urged a Los Angeles state judge Thursday to toss a California regulator's claims that it uses a Utah bank partner to dodge state regulations, saying it's not part of a "dummy lender" scheme and the court has all the information it needs to end the case.

  • January 29, 2026

    Apple Aims To Boot Anti-Moonlighting Suit To Arbitration

    Apple Inc. urged a Seattle federal judge to throw out a former employee's proposed class action accusing the company of unlawfully barring lower-wage workers from taking second jobs, arguing that plaintiff Gabriel Fisher gave up his right to sue when he signed an arbitration agreement included in his job offer.

  • January 29, 2026

    SEC Lays Out Taxonomy For Tokenized Securities Trading

    Publicly traded companies that convert their shares into cryptocurrency are still subject to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, agency staff said Wednesday as they outlined a classification scheme for trading in tokenized securities.

  • January 29, 2026

    DCA Midair Collision: One Year Later

    Investigators' determination that the Federal Aviation Administration ignored repeated warnings about near-misses and risky helicopter traffic around the nation's capital is expected to spur regulatory reforms and potentially heighten the government's legal exposure in civil litigation stemming from the deadly midair collision in Washington, D.C., a year ago.

Expert Analysis

  • Banking Regulation Themes To Anticipate In 2026

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    The banking enforcement and rulemaking agenda for this year is likely to reflect a mix of targeted reform, deregulatory recalibration and new priorities aligned with supervisory modernization, says Kim Prior at King & Spalding.

  • Cannabis Industry Faces An Inflection Point This Year

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    Cannabis industry developments last year — from the passage of a new wholesale tax in Michigan, to an executive order accelerating the federal rescheduling process — presage a more mature phase of legalization this year, with hardening expectations and enforcement to come, says Alex Leonowicz at Howard & Howard.

  • 2 OFAC Sanctions Actions Highlight PE Compliance Risk

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    Recent Office of Foreign Assets Control enforcement actions against two private equity firms for facilitating sanctioned persons' access to the U.S. financial system underscore the need for nonbank financial institutions' compliance programs to consider the sanctions risk of their investors, including indirect dealings with blocked persons, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.

  • Algorithmic Bias Risks Remain For Employers After AI Order

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    A recent executive order articulates a federal preference for a minimally burdensome approach to artificial intelligence regulation, but it doesn't eliminate employers' central compliance challenge or exposure when using AI tools, say Marjorie Soto Garcia and Joseph Mulherin at McDermott, and Candice Rosevear at Peregrine Economics.

  • Easing Equity Research Firewall Shows SEC Open To Updates

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent agreement to modify a decades-old settlement meant to limit investment bankers’ influence over research analysts within major broker-dealer firms reflects a shift toward a commission that recognizes how rules can be modernized to lighten compliance burdens without eliminating core safeguards, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Insights From 2025's Flood Of Data Breach Litigation

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    Several coherent patterns emerged from 2025's data breach litigation activity, suggesting that judges have grown skilled at distinguishing between companies that were genuinely victimized by sophisticated criminal actors despite reasonable precautions, and those whose security practices invited exploitation, says Frederick Livingston at McDonald Baas.

  • Series

    Fly-Fishing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Much like skilled attorneys, the best anglers prize preparation, presentation and patience while respecting their adversaries — both human and trout, says Rob Braverman at Braverman Greenspun.

  • Unpacking The DOJ Meatpacking Probe

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    The recent U.S. Department of Justice meatpacking antitrust investigation is in line with the Trump administration's focus on crimes that affect U.S. consumers, and businesses in other agricultural sectors should be aware of the increased antitrust scrutiny currently aimed at the industry, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

  • Aligning With EPA's 'Compliance First' Enforcement Policy

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    To take advantage of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new "compliance first" policy, companies will need to maintain up-to-date compliance programs, implement self-audits and find-and-fix protocols, and lean more into open communication with regulators, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • 4 Ways GCs Can Manage Growing Service Of Process Volume

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    As automation and arbitration increase the volume of legal filings, in-house counsel must build scalable service of process systems that strengthen corporate governance and manage risk in real time, says Paul Mathews at Corporation Service Co.

  • SDNY Atty Signals Return To Private Fund Valuation Scrutiny

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    Recent remarks by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York — hinting that regulators are renewing their focus on private fund advisers who overvalue portfolio assets to drive up investor fees — should prompt firms to review their valuation methodologies and address potential conflicts of interest now, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Calif. AI Law Will Have Ripple Effect On Emerging Cos.

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    California's Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act is the first comprehensive state-level AI safety framework with mandated public disclosures in the U.S., and although it may not affect emerging companies directly, companies that embed governance and transparency into their operations will differentiate themselves in highly competitive markets, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • Series

    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Forming Measurable Ties

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    Relationship-building should begin as early as possible in a law firm merger, as intentional pathways to bringing people together drive collaboration, positive client response, engagements and growth, says Amie Colby at Troutman.

  • AG Watch: Va. Insulin Price Probe Signals Rising Scrutiny

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    Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares' recent investigation into insulin manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers for allegedly colluding to artificially inflate insulin prices reflects a broader trend to leverage consumer protection authority in high-impact healthcare matters, and the upcoming leadership change is unlikely to diminish scrutiny in this area, says Chuck Slemp at Cozen O'Connor.

  • How 2025 Executive Orders Are Reshaping Consumer Finance

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    In 2025, President Donald Trump used executive orders to initiate a reversal of policies on fair lending, urge agencies to use enforcement and supervisory tools to police debanking, and reduce consumer financial regulation — and the resulting flurry of deregulatory activity will likely continue in 2026, says Elizabeth Tucci at Goodwin.

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