Last week, the Trump administration made its priorities clear for the nation’s cybersecurity posture in the form of the newly issued executive order entitled “Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity...more
6/13/2025
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Trump Administration
Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter seeks to bring you up to speed on key federal and state False Claims Act (FCA) developments, with links to primary resources. Each quarter, we...more
4/12/2024
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Federal Contractors ,
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Healthcare ,
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Medicare ,
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Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter seeks to bring you up to speed on key federal and state False Claims Act (FCA) developments, with links to primary resources. Each quarter, we...more
1/4/2024
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Health Care Providers ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Internal Investigations ,
Patient Referrals ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
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On December 22, 2023, President Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 into law after bipartisan congressional majorities approved the bill earlier in the month. The annual bill authorizes...more
1/3/2024
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Department of Defense (DOD) ,
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Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Goods or Services ,
Inflation Adjustments ,
NDAA ,
Popular ,
SDVOSB ,
Small Business ,
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The U.S. Department of Defense released a special holiday treat for government contractors and subcontractors last week in the form of long-promised proposed regulations for its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification...more
1/3/2024
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Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) ,
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Risk Management ,
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Designed for busy in-house counsel and compliance professionals, this newsletter seeks to bring you up to speed on key federal and state False Claims Act (FCA) developments, with links to primary resources. Each quarter, we...more
10/11/2023
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Causation ,
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Denial of Certiorari ,
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Failure to Monitor ,
False Billing ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Foreign Subsidies ,
General Services Administration (GSA) ,
Healthcare Fraud ,
Kickbacks ,
Medicare ,
NIST ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Popular ,
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Risk Management ,
SCOTUS ,
State Grants ,
TRICARE ,
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In what can best be described as a tsunami of cybersecurity regulation, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council—consisting of the Department of Defense (DoD), General Services Administration (GSA), and National...more
10/9/2023
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Cyber Incident Reporting ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
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Department of Defense (DOD) ,
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) ,
Federal Contractors ,
General Services Administration (GSA) ,
Information Technology ,
Internet of Things ,
NASA ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
NIST ,
OMB ,
Popular ,
Proposed Rules ,
Risk Management ,
Subcontractors
Infusing billions of dollars into the U.S. semiconductor industry and appropriating billions more for scientific research and development, what is now colloquially referred to as the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 was signed...more
8/30/2022
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NASA ,
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Research and Development ,
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Tax Credits ,
US Department of State
2020 brought the COVID-19 pandemic and other headline-grabbing challenges, along with “the usual” quadrennial questions around the U.S. election. Early in the year, businesses and dealmakers focused on the pandemic and...more
1/15/2021
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CFIUS ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Due Diligence ,
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EU Horizontal Safeguard Regulation (HSR) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Human Rights ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Loan Forgiveness ,
Loans ,
Material Adverse Events ,
Poison Pill ,
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Private Equity ,
Remote Working ,
Representations and Warranties ,
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs)
Is it just us or does March 4 — the date of our last issue — feel like a million years ago? Like you, and not necessarily in this order, we have been: doing our work; keeping up with COVID-19-related laws, guidance, and...more
7/15/2020
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Arbitration ,
Auto-Dialed Calls ,
BSA/AML ,
CARES Act ,
Consent Order ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
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CRA ,
Dodd-Frank ,
E-SIGN ,
Fair Lending ,
FASB ,
FDIC ,
Federal Reserve ,
FinCEN ,
FinTech ,
HMDA ,
Interim Final Rules (IFR) ,
Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (MMLF) ,
OCC ,
Paycheck Protection Program Lending Facility (PPPLF) ,
Popular ,
Remittance Transfer Rule ,
Request For Information ,
RESPA ,
SPVs ,
TCPA ,
Volcker Rule