On July 29, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memorandum to all federal agencies discussing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs. More specifically, she outlined how agencies should regulate the activities of…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
This month’s Friday Five explores recent decisions including deference to initial benefits decisions in de novo reviews, the recovery of fees incurred in pre-litigation administrative proceedings, proof of disability due to…
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/ Administrative Law, Insurance, Labor & Employment Law
How can a company ensure that its clickwrap agreements for services are worth more than just the pixels they’re displayed on? In a recent ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the answer may be as…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
Introduction - The U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has doubled down on eliminating healthcare fraud in government programs, including through the launch of new inter-agency groups in both the Civil and Criminal Divisions, and…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, Government Contracting, Health
The Trump Administration continues to surprise many observers by taking antitrust enforcement seriously. The latest initiative, announced on July 8, 2025, creates an avenue for rewarding individuals who report antitrust crimes…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, Government Contracting
In 2025, the second Trump administration has made sweeping use of tariffs. Tariffs have been imposed and suspended several times, in varying amounts, against a multitude of countries on all types of goods used in the…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Construction Law, International Law & Trade
If an error is in a credit file and no one is around to see it, does it create standing? No, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, noting a plaintiff “cannot manufacture standing by spending time and…
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/ Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
Overview - On July 11, 2025, the Seventh Circuit issued a ruling in Arana v. Board of Regents, reversing summary judgment for the defendant university. In its ruling in the case, which involved the readmission of a star football…
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/ Civil Rights, Education Law
Background - As temperatures have heated up this summer, so has the pace of new state food policies. Over the past several weeks, there has been an uptick in the promulgation of bans on food additives and laws aimed at…
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/ Agriculture, Consumer Protection, Health
To many of us, our pets are members of the family. However, they are often overlooked in putting together an estate plan, where the traditional focus is on the disposition of a client’s assets and naming guardians for his or her…
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/ Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
Probate is the legal process of administering a Decedent’s Last Will & Testament (“Will”), whereby assets owned by the Decedent at death are distributed pursuant to the terms of their Will, or if there is no Will, according to a…
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/ Taxation, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
There are three aspects of the Florida Homestead law. One is the “save our homes” exemption. The save our homes exemption limits how much the value of the homestead can be increased from year to year for purposes of assessing…
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/ Family Law, Real Estate - Residential, Taxation, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
Irrevocable trusts have long been a valuable arrow in the quiver of the high-net-worth estate planner. An irrevocable trust can provide tax advantages by minimizing estate taxes and preserving wealth for future generations…
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/ Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
On July 7, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced a $225,000 settlement with Deer Oaks – The Behavioral Health Solution (“Deer Oaks”), a provider of…
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/ Health, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The new tax legislation, part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill", includes a temporary tax break for overtime pay, allowing eligible workers to deduct a portion of their overtime earnings from their federal income taxes. Section…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Taxation
