The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 58 - Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: IRS Investigations
Emerging Risks & Opportunities: Navigating Environmental & Sustainability Regulations During the First 100 Days
First 60 Days of the Trump Administration: Food and Agriculture Policy
Compliance into the Weeds: Global Anti-Corruption Leadership
Business Better Podcast: Manufacturing Moment - Manufacturers’ Priorities for the New Administration
State AG Pulse | DEI in the Federal and State Spotlight
The Labor Law Insider: What's Next for Labor Law Under the Trump Administration, Part II
The Regulatory Situation After the Trump Executive Orders Regulatory Freeze Pending Review
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 40: Federal Contractors Under the 2nd Trump Administration with Joan Moore & Mim Munzel of The Arbor Consulting Group
ESG Essentials: What You Need To Know Now - Episode 18 - The Reshaping of ESG & DEI
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 39: Best Practices for Conducting RIFs and Layoffs with Jennifer Wheeler of Maynard Nexsen
#WorkforceWednesday®: Should Employers Shift Workforce Data Collection Under President Trump? - Employment Law This Week®
When DE&I Are Under Attack: On Record PR
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 38: Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) with John Holmes of Maynard Nexsen
AGG Talks: Solving Employers’ Problems Podcast - Episode 5: What Employers Need to Know About DEI Policy Changes Under the Trump Administration
#WorkforceWednesday®: Workplace Law Shake-Up - DEI Challenges, NLRB Reversals, and EEOC Actions - Employment Law This Week®
Recruitment in a Changing Federal Landscape
False Claims Act Insights - Can DE&I Initiatives Lead to Potential False Claims Act Liability?
The Labor Law Insider: What's Next for Labor Law Under the Trump Administration, Part I
7 Key Takeaways | The Changing Landscape of Federal Funding in the Trump Administration
As discussed in Bracewell’s February 11 and February 26 updates, the executive branch is prioritizing the “total elimination” of cartels and transnational criminal organizations, both through edicts from the Oval Office and...more
The table below presents a structured timeline of executive actions, policy directives, and trade-related decisions issued by President Trump’s administration from January 2025 to the present. It focuses on critical areas...more
Policy change in Washington since the change in administration has been swift, dramatic in many areas and executed with unprecedented pace. One area, however, has been relatively stable in the administration’s first two...more
On April 2 — labeled “Liberation Day” by President Trump — the Trump administration is set to add a new sanctions-like boost to its tariff strategy, with a threat to impose unprecedented “secondary tariffs” of 25% on “all...more
President Trump’s “America First Trade Policy” is creating new sanctions compliance risk for financial services institutions and companies in an area that historically has not received as much enforcement attention: drug...more
With unprecedented change and intensifying enforcement, now is the time to ensure your team is prepared for what’s ahead. Ensure that you don’t miss out on critical U.S. and international economic sanctions updates and the...more
On March 11, 2025, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) aimed at disrupting drug trafficking and money laundering along the southwestern border. The...more
On March 12, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) allowed General License (GL) 8L under the Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations to expire. As a result, broad OFAC...more
This is the final in our 2025 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. Throughout 2024, enforcement of international trade laws continued to gather pace...more
In the context of the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S., EU, and U.K. continue to implement new measures to stifle Russia’s war efforts. The Biden administration continued to escalate sanctions...more
The Trump administration continues to ramp up sanctions on Venezuela and Yemen's Houthis, while sending mixed signals about its intentions with respect to Russia. We provide brief updates on these three areas, following up...more
Executive Order Establishes Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, Digital Asset Stockpile - On March 6, President Trump issued an executive order (EO), Establishment of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and United States Digital Asset...more
Despite recent reports indicating that the Trump Administration is looking into possible options to ease sanctions against Russia, the President took to social media to threaten exactly the opposite....more
The tariffs imposed by President Trump on Canada and Mexico under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) went into effect on March 4, 2025. Our initial posting on this development can be found here....more
Recent news out of the White House indicates that the Trump Administration is seeking to distance the U.S. from Ukraine as a part of ongoing peace talks with Russia. Reuters is now reporting that the White House has...more
President Donald Trump announced on Feb. 26, 2025, that he was reversing the authorization granted to Chevron Corp. and its subsidiaries (Chevron) by the Biden Administration as a concession aimed at promoting free elections...more
The Situation: After President Trump issued an Executive Order ("EO") that creates a process to designate international cartels and other organizations as "Foreign Terrorist Organizations" ("FTOs") or "Specially Designated...more
In the latest effort to implement its “maximum pressure” campaign targeted at putting a total stop to Iranian oil exports, the Trump administration has imposed another round of sanctions targeting Iran’s oil distribution...more
On February 20, 2025, the U.S. Departments of State and the Treasury designated eight Latin American drug trafficking cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), in...more
Effective February 20, 2025, the Secretary of State designated eight Latin American organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and as Specially...more
On February 5, 2025, President Trump's nominee to lead the Justice Department (the "Department"), Pamela Bondi, was confirmed by the Senate to serve as the U.S. Attorney General. Bondi immediately took action to reshape the...more
On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order (EO 14157) that sets in motion the designation of certain cartels and transnational crime gangs as terrorist organizations. The President declared a...more
We previously covered President Trump’s IEEPA tariffs and the various retaliatory tariff and nontariff countermeasures announced by each country in separate posts. Currently, the Mexico and Canada tariffs have been paused...more
The US Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi, recently released over a dozen memoranda on a variety of policies – ranging from plea agreements and sentencing criteria, to the DOJ’s amplified focus on...more
President Trump issued a new Executive Order renewing a commitment to imposing “maximum pressure” on the Iranian government to “end its nuclear threat, curtail its ballistic missile program, and stop its support for terrorist...more