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Compliance Tip of the Day: M&A Domestic Issues
From the Editor’s Desk: Compliance Week’s Insights and Reflections from July to August 2025
Everything Compliance: Episode 158, The No to Corruption in Ukraine Edition
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Episode 379 -- Update on False Claims Act and Customs Evasion Liability
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Daily Compliance News: July 25, 2025, The New Sheriff in Town Edition
Great Women in Compliance: The Compliance Influencer with Bettina Palazzo
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Federal officials just issued another warning that employers may be at risk of losing federal funding – including grant funding – if their DEI or similar programs violate anti-discrimination laws. Recent guidance from the...more
Discrimination claims are rising against employers accused of favoring foreign national workers over US workers, and several federal agencies are also joining in this new enforcement trend that should cause you to review your...more
Following multiple executive orders from President Donald Trump concerning Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), employers have been eagerly awaiting agency guidance to clarify the scope and implications of what is...more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently announced a settlement with Brick & Bourbon, a Minnesota-based restaurant group, for violations of federal anti-discrimination laws in its employment eligibility verification...more
It’s been a whirlwind few years when it comes to government and court activity related to the use of artificial intelligence in the workplace – but we’ve boiled it down to one place. This Insight reviews all of the laws,...more
On November 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement with Great Dane LLC (Great Dane), a trailer manufacturing company, over allegations of discriminatory hiring practices against non-U.S....more
We rarely see a government body provide guidance to employers in such an extraordinary manner as we saw last month, when an immigration hearing officer sent a loud-and-clear message to employers facing I-9 fines: appeal your...more
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and now state attorneys general, have set their sights on staffing companies in their evolving efforts to examine labor markets through an antitrust lens....more
The executive order on artificial intelligence issued by the White House yesterday is the federal government’s most ambitious attempt to date to corral this burgeoning technology – and contains numerous items of interest for...more
Our Immigration Team explores the legal foundation of how the Department of Justice has convinced companies to settle suits brought under the unfair immigration-related employment practices statute....more
Last month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had secured settlement agreements from another 10 employers for posting discriminatory job advertisements on a college recruiting platform in violation of the...more
It has been a tumultuous year for the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and its recent no-poach criminal prosecution strategy. No-poach agreements, which are arrangements between companies that place restrictions on the hiring...more
On October 27, 2022, VDA OC, LLC, (VDA) a Nevada health care staffing company, pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition for the services of school nurses. According to the plea,...more
The U.S. Department of Justice appears to be close to reaching a plea deal that would result in the nation’s first-ever successful criminal prosecution of a workplace-related antitrust matter – and it should send a clear...more
A federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has held that an antitrust challenge to a “hiring restriction [that] prevented” plaintiff employees “from taking a better-paying position with a...more
Employers can benefit from using software programs to streamline their hiring process, but federal agencies just sent a stern warning that relying on algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) to make staffing decisions...more
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), on May 12, 2022, issued guidance advising employers that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic...more
As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent in hiring practices, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued joint guidance on May 12, 2022,...more
In 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division (DOJ) announced that it would criminally prosecute no-poach and wage-fixing agreements for the first time. Indeed, the DOJ has backed this up by bringing a number of...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
The U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division (DOJ) has made good on a promise it made over four years ago to criminally charge companies that agree not to solicit each other's employees in so-called "no poach"...more
The Justice Department announced on November 10, 2020 that it signed a settlement agreement with Fleetlogix Inc. (“Fleetlogix”) resolving claims that the company discriminated against work-authorized, non-U.S. citizens by...more
A ruling issued on Wednesday, February 26 by a Connecticut federal court details the type of control necessary to find that a foreign national acted as an agent of a U.S. domestic concern for purposes of falling within the...more
Within the last five months, the two executive arms responsible for enforcing antitrust laws—the US Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”)—held public workshops to examine the effect of...more
Welcome to the 2019 Shearman & Sterling Antitrust Annual Report. Our seventh edition focuses on the contrasting use by regulators of antitrust laws with respect to the FANGs, and how antitrust is being enforced in the U.S....more