The Order institutes a new Civil Service Rule XI to ensure agencies effectively utilize probationary and trial periods. Civil Service Rule XI supersedes subpart H and requires agencies to affirmatively determine that the…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
Seeks to optimize and target federal investments in workforce development to align with U.S. reindustrialization needs and equip American workers to fill demand for skilled trades and other occupations. The Order requires the…
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/ Administrative Law, Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Order seeks to promote artificial intelligence (AI) literacy and proficiency among Americans through integration of AI into education, providing training for educators, and fostering early exposure to AI concepts and…
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/ Education Law, Labor & Employment Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
Directs agencies to expedite seabed mineral development by streamlining licensing for exploration and recovery, mapping priority resource areas, and identifying commercial opportunities both domestically and abroad. It also…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade, Maritime Law
States the policy of the Administration to support Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in fostering more and better opportunities in higher education and ensuring college-educated Americans are empowered to…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law
The Order requires the Secretary of Education to take all appropriate actions to ensure complete and timely disclosure by higher education institutions of foreign funding. The Secretary will take appropriate steps to reverse or…
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/ Administrative Law, Education Law, International Law & Trade
The use of disparate-impact liability in all contexts must be eliminated to avoid violating the Constitution and federal civil rights laws. Disparate-impact liability arises where a seemingly neutral policy or practice leads to…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
The Order states that the Federal Government will no longer tolerate known risks to children’s safety and well-being in the classroom that result from the application of school discipline based on discriminatory and unlawful…
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/ Civil Rights, Education Law
Requires the Secretary of Education to hold accreditors accountable who fail to meet the applicable recognition criteria or otherwise violate Federal law, including by requiring accreditation seeking institutions to engage in…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law
The Federal Circuit recently refused to apply collateral estoppel to claims of a patent asserted in district court litigation based on a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision finding similar claims from the same patent…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
Between April 9 and April 16, President Trump issued three executive orders (EOs) calling for reforms to the federal procurement system. The April 9 EO, “Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting
The sports industry has become a significant global economic force, generating hundreds of billions of dollars annually on a worldwide basis and operating within an increasingly complex financial landscape. Professional sports…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Finance & Banking
Repeals the “Management of the Marine National Monument” section of Proclamation 9173 (Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument Expansion), which appropriated the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM)…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Maritime Law
Extends the freeze on hiring Federal civilian employees within the executive branch through July 15, 2025. This freeze continues to apply to all executive departments and agencies regardless of their sources of operational and…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
As an industry at the frontline of navigating a shifting policy backdrop under the new Trump administration, pre-imposition of “Independence Day” Tariffs, energy was experiencing a growth in interest from private equity sponsors…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Finance & Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions
