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,...
Yesterday, September 26, 2023, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), along with six other Democratic Senators and eighteen Democratic...
On September 21, 2023, Judge Kacsmaryk (N.D. Texas), a famously conservative Trump-appointed jurist, upheld a Department of Labor rule...
Could the new SEC "Names Rule" really kill ESG funds as this article suggests? It seems very doubtful, but whether you agree with the...
On September 12, 2023, SEC Chairman Gensler testified before the Senate concerning a number of significant issues for the SEC. Among...
On September 20, 2023, the SEC approved amendments to the "Names Rule," which were initially proposed in May 2022. Although the stated...
The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (“SEC”) recently found that an investment adviser mischaracterized its integration of...
Last month, Federal District Court Judge Stanley A. Bastian dismissed at oral argument a shareholder suit challenging the Starbucks DEI...
If you are in the consumer health space, you have (or at least we hope you have...) figured out by now that there are health-related...
Today’s WSJ piece about making performance "feedback" language more positive to account for the feelings of employees to whom performance...
As employers aim to increase the productivity of their workforce following what is often a slower summer period, they may unintentionally...
The value of mentoring has been popularized in many cultural contexts: apprenticeships, films, literature, business relationships, and...