Regulations, Compliance, & Enforcement
Prediction Markets and Insider Trading
Davis Wright Tremaine - Odds are, if you have employees, they may be trading in prediction or mention markets based on things they learned...
U.S. Government Issues Billion Dollar Warning On Trade Fraud
Husch Blackwell - On July 14, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent the clearest possible...
Title VI Shift: DOL Rescinds Disparate Impact Rules for Funding Recipients
Jackson Lewis - The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued a final rule rescinding portions of its Title VI regulations that addressed disparate impact...
CUI, FOCI, Quantum, and CMMC: The Federal Government Issues a Wave of Proposed Rules to Safeguard Government Information
Blank Rome - Ernest Hemingway once wrote about bankruptcy that it happens “gradually and then suddenly.” The same can be said about federal information...
With DOJ’s Latest Announcements, Trade Fraud Enforcement Is Here to Stay
Morgan Lewis - A series of recent DOJ actions—including the announcement of the trade fraud task force $1 billion milestone, publication of a new...
BREAKING: Department of War Suspends Introduction of Phase Two of CMMC
Koprince McCall Pottroff - Last year, we noted in a couple posts that the federal government had finally began implementation of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)...
A Growing Trend: Cybersecurity Fits the Administration’s Fraud Enforcement Priorities
Bradley - While traditional government enforcement areas, such as healthcare, dominate headlines, one emerging enforcement priority continues to grow, albeit with less fanfare: compliance with...
Recent Legal Developments Offer Encouragement for Employers Supporting DEI
Husch Blackwell - Employers committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs have spent recent years navigating a hostile enforcement environment. Executive orders threatening...
Customs Crackdown: Preparing for Heightened Enforcement
Morgan Lewis - On June 3, 2026, President Trump issued Executive Order 14411, Strengthening Customs Enforcement (the Order). The Order is intended to combat...
DOJ Releases FOCUS Questionnaire to Assist in Evaluating Qui Tams Filed by Data Miners
Sidley - The Department of Justice has launched its Fraud Oversight through Careful Use of Statistics (“FOCUS”) initiative. The initiative gives data miners an...
SBA Commends DoW CMMC Suspension
PilieroMazza - On July 13, 2026, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy announced that working with industry partners, including PilieroMazza, the SBA had...
Episode 433 — The Corruption Reckoning: How Government Corruption Destroys Economies, Democracies, and Societies
The Volkov Law Group - Government corruption is often viewed as a political problem, but its consequences extend far beyond government institutions. Corruption distorts...
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