Last year, the State of Oklahoma enacted a law that “requires the state to stop doing business with financial companies that ‘boycott’...
According to a recent ESG report from the Conference Board, the number of major companies issuing climate change risk factor disclosures...
The Securities & Exchange Commission recently disclosed, in a filing with the Office of Management and Budget, that the vote by the SEC...
Spotify announced this week, through a very public memo to its employees, its plan to layoff about 17% of its workforce. In so doing,...
We recently posted about the investor who sued Target Corporation for securities laws violations arising from Target's alleged failure to...
The WSJ piece about the benefit of hiring drill sergeants to double down on productivity and reduce whining makes some good points about...
Earlier this week, SEC Commissioner Mark Uyeda--one of the two Republican appointees to the SEC--delivered remarks at the Practising Law...
A number of conservative politicians and legal scholars have been advancing, for more than a year, theories that decisions made by...
Earlier this week, the SEC's Division of Examinations released its 2024 examination priorities. While many of these priorities are...
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars discrimination in employment transfer...
On October 7, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom of California signed into law two climate disclosure bills passed by the California...
My last note touched on a recent SEC rule proposal regarding Predictive Data Analytics, and a speech by Chair Gary Gensler highlighting a...
On September 25, 2023, the SEC announced a settled administrative proceeding against a major investment advisor in which it agreed to pay...
The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (“SEC”) is highly focused on regulating the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) by financial...
Earlier this month, Governor Newsom announced his support of a sweeping climate bill enacted by the California legislature that would...
On September 15, 2023, California filed a lawsuit against the major oil companies, presenting claims under a variety of theories,...