On March 19, 2025, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) issued a technical assistance document titled, “What You Should Know About DEI-Related Discrimination at Work.” The document is comprised of a series…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
On March 18, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the “D.C. Circuit”) ruled in Thaler v. Perlmutter, affirming that works created solely by artificial intelligence (“AI”) cannot be…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
After almost fifteen months of legal challenges, conflicting court rulings, changing guidance from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), and a general air of uncertainty, it appears that…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, International Law & Trade
On March 25, the Department of Homeland Security announced its intent to terminate the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela parole program in 30 days (April 24). The Biden-era CHNV program granted certain individuals from Cuba,…
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/ Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
The introduction of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) agreements has fundamentally changed the landscape of college athletics. For the first time, student-athletes can capitalize on their personal brands while pursuing their…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Education Law
As winter turns to spring, the NCAA men’s and women’s college basketball tournaments are in full swing. March Madness is often viewed as an excellent way to build team spirit in the workplace — a little friendly competition…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
Days after the United States Treasury Department and its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced it was suspending enforcement the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), (you can read about that in our last client…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
On February 18, 2025, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas reinstated reporting obligations under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) (31 U.S.C. §5336), requiring reporting companies to resume CTA…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
Did you know that you do not need to mail Form 1095-Cs if a notice is posted by March 3, 2025? At the end of last year, a new law was enacted that would allow employers to provide Form 1095-C only if requested, so long as the…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Taxation
Texas Federal Court Reinstates the Corporate Transparency Act The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, et al., has lifted the “pause” on the Corporate…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
The hits just kept coming from the National Labor Relations Board in 2024. The final year of the Biden board produced a flurry of decisions that kept labor practitioners on their toes. It seemed that each month, there was a…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Labor & Employment Law
On the first day of President Trump’s second administration, he signed the Ending Racial and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing Executive Order. This order provides direction to eliminate any and all Diversity,…
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/ Civil Rights, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law, Government Contracting
As of January 1, 2025, new reporting requirements and annual filings under Pennsylvania Act 122 of 2022 have become effective. Under this new legislation, business entities and other organizations operating in Pennsylvania must…
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/ Business Organizations, Nonprofit Law, Taxation
The Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities (Department) has recently targeted registered investment advisers who utilize leveraged and inverse exchange traded funds (ETFs). Advisers should be aware of the Department’s…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
With the election of President Trump, we have begun to see the removal of undocumented aliens from the country. Many of our clients are seeing removal operations occurring in major cities being reported daily in the news…
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/ Business Organizations, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
