Publications and Presentations

On May 19, 2025, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Todd Blanche issued a memo entitled “Civil Rights Fraud Initiative,” announcing the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) intent to use the False Claims Act (FCA) to enforce the civil rights laws.

Join us for an in-depth discussion examining the energy and environmental policy direction of the Trump administration during its first 100 days in office.

If your company lands in litigation, chances are that valuable data won’t be sitting neatly in a single email server. It’s scattered across Slack threads, Teams chats, WhatsApp messages, cloud folders, or personal phones — “shadow IT” you never officially approved, or even heard of before.

In this edition of our Critical Compliance series, London senior associate Maya Paunrana examines new guidance from the Serious Fraud Office on self-reporting corporate criminal misconduct.

On April 29, 2025, a federal jury in the Southern District of New York found Omnicare liable for illegally dispensing drugs to elderly and disabled people in long-term care facilities without legitimate prescriptions.

On May 14, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced important details about how it will approach the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations that went into effect last June for six per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances compounds: PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, HFPO-DA, and PFBS.

For a variety of reasons discussed in this Advisory, tariffs are unlikely to be a basis for allowing a contracting party to avoid contractual obligations. Read on to learn the steps that businesses can take now to mitigate the impact of tariffs and plan for future disputes related to pricing, operations, and supply chain, as well as to assist in current contracting efforts.

Over the course of the last decade, a growing number of U.S. states have introduced new requirements for the end-of-life management of sweeping categories of products, including batteries, electronics, mattresses, plastic packaging, and textiles.

On May 8, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that it will establish a fast-track pilot program to facilitate greater investment in U.S. businesses from allies and partners.

The U.S. Department of Justice is “turning a new page on white-collar and corporate enforcement,” according to DOJ Criminal Division Head, Matthew Galeotti.

On April 21, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a notice NOT-OD-25-090 (Notice) that requires all domestic NIH grant recipients of new, renewal, supplemental, or continuation awards issued on or after the date of the Notice, recipients of other transaction awards, and parties to cooperative agreements to certify that: (i) they do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws; and (ii) they do not engage in and will not during the term of this award engage in, a discriminatory prohibited boycott.