Understanding Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery: A Business Imperative with Clint Palermo
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Navigating Fiduciary Responsibilities in a Tide-Turning ESG Era
ESG Essentials: What You Need To Know Now - Episode 18 - The Reshaping of ESG & DEI
Compliance into the Weeds: More Compliance Challenges in the Trump Era
Podcast — UK FinReg Focus Areas in 2025: Sectoral Trends
Environmental and Sustainability Regulations & the New Administration
Podcast - Beyond Compliance: A Deep Dive into Carbon Markets Fraud and the Government's Response
ESG Essentials: What You Need To Know Now - Episode 17 - The Evolution of ESG Enforcement Under the SEC
Navigating ESG: Preparing for Future Regulations (Part Two) — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Regulatory Uncertainty: Benefits-Related Legal Challenges in a Post-Chevron World — Troutman Pepper Podcast
Navigating ESG: The Growing Importance and Compliance Challenges (Part One) — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 16: The Political and Legal Maze of ESG in the U.S. and Abroad
Episode 326 -- Dottie Schindlinger on Diligent's Report on Board Oversight of Cybersecurity Risks and Performance
Why ESG Matters?
JONES DAY TALKS®: ESG Reporting Rules: The SEC, CSRD, and California– Who's on the Hook?
ESG Masterclass — Legal Risks Hiding in Your DEIB Programming
Leaning in on AI in Compliance Programs
ESG Masterclass — ESG and Impact Investing
ESG Masterclass — Empowering Women and Girls in Sparking Lasting Change
JONES DAY TALKS®: Court Grants Stay on SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule, but Companies Should Continue Preparations
On January 10, 2025, in Spence v. American Airlines, a federal district court in Texas ruled that American Airlines (the company) and the committee overseeing its 401(k) plans (the committee) breached their duty of loyalty...more
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing has continued to be the subject of increasing regulatory, legislative, and litigation scrutiny. The scrutiny has accelerated following the results of the 2024 US federal...more
On January 10, 2025, Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas issued a much-anticipated ruling in Spence v. American Airlines, Inc., which marks the first time that a federal judge has written an on-the-merits...more
A recent summary judgment decision from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in an ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) class action challenging the alleged impact of environmental, social,...more
If you manage a private investment fund that is subject to Title I of ERISA and is not a feeder fund (an “ERISA Fund”), you should, before December 1, 2023, take the steps described below in order to comply with the DOL’s...more
In this episode of The Proskauer Benefits Brief, Proskauer partners Ira Bogner and Adam Scoll and law clerk Tanusha Yarlagadda discuss the Department of Labor’s final ESG rules issued on November 22, 2022, and how those rules...more
The Final Rule clarifies the application of ERISA’s fiduciary duties of prudence and loyalty to the selection of plan investments that incorporate ESG goals. On November 22, 2022, the US Department of Labor (DOL) released a...more
Last year the Department of Labor (“DOL”) proposed changes to ERISA regulations that govern the consideration of environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) factors in retirement plans, as well as fiduciary...more
On November 22, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) released its final rule (the “Final Rule”) adopting certain revisions to its investment duties regulation under ERISA at 29 CFR Section 2550.404a-1 (the “Section...more
On November 22, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final regulation amending prior regulations, adopted in 2020, relating to environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) considerations in investment and...more
On November 22, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a final rule promulgated by the Employee Benefits Security Administration that allows retirement plan fiduciaries to consider environmental, social and...more
On October 13, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a proposed regulation that would, if adopted, amend existing regulations, adopted in 2020, relating to environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG)...more
On Oct. 13, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed amendments to its regulations (the Proposed Rule) that enhance the ability of employee benefit plan fiduciaries to consider climate change and other environmental,...more
The US Department of Labor (DOL) released on Wednesday, October 13, a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights (the proposed rule), which would...more
Not surprising most of us, the Department of Labor (DOL)’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) announced that it won’t enforce recently published rules on Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments...more
The U.S. Department of Labor will not enforce two of its final rules, published in November and December 2020, restricting ERISA retirement plans’ consideration of environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) factors in the...more
On December 11, 2020, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued a pre-publication version of its final regulations with respect to proxy voting in plans that are subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act...more
Please join us for our live Hot Topics and Trends in Employee Benefits for 2021 webinar on Thursday, December 3, 2020. Attorneys from our Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation practice will provide insights on current...more
A hot topic in the world of money management, including the management of assets in retirement plans, is the consideration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors when evaluating investments....more