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 Nantucket Residents Against Turbines, or ACKRat, have asked the First Circuit Court of Appeals to find that the Federal Bureau of...
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...
EPA is publishing its final rule specifying the role of States and Tribes in the Federal licensing or permitting of activities that may...
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...
Sam Hess of Inside EPA reports that EPA and the Corps of Engineers are going to apply their tenth, post-Sackett, attempt to define Waters...
Today’s WSJ piece about making performance "feedback" language more positive to account for the feelings of employees to whom performance...