#WorkforceWednesday®: Can the President Fire NLRB Members Without Cause? SCOTUS May Decide - Employment Law This Week®
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 59 - Enforcement Priorities of the Second Trump Administration: DOJ Focus
A New Era at the Federal Election Commission?
Labor & Employment Actions in Biden's First 100 Days
When Should Presidential Appointees Lawyer Up? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 17]
Recent Developments at the National Labor Relations Board under the Biden Administration
Life Sciences Quarterly: A View From Washington: What to Expect From the SEC
On Tuesday, July 15, the Senate voted 51-50, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote, on the motion to proceed with debate on H.R.4, the Rescission Act of 2025. Democrats used 10 hours of the statutorily...more
Both the House and Senate are in session this week. On Friday, the Senate introduced its own budget resolution, which establishes a path for reconciliation that permits the upper chamber to sidestep its 60-vote requirement...more
Late Monday night, President Trump made two major changes to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), both of which will cause a major shift in the political leanings of the NLRB and one that may substantially impact the...more
In the past week, we have seen the possible end to the ‘crypto winter’ in the United States, with the Trump Administration signaling that a range of pro-crypto reforms are ahead. These signals, which will likely develop into...more
Key Points - - President-elect Trump appointed David Sacks, a venture capitalist, as the White House AI and crypto czar. - The Trump administration is likely to adopt a light regulatory approach to AI development and...more
On December 10, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump selected Commissioner Andrew Ferguson to succeed Lina Khan as chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The same day, he announced his nomination of Mark Meador, a partner...more
Few industries experienced a more drastic reversal of fortune on Election Day than the cryptocurrency sector. On November 4, several of its largest companies were locked in a seemingly interminable battle with the Securities...more
11 Days Left in Lame Duck - Both houses of Congress are in this week as we approach December 20, the deadline by which Congress must pass a continuing resolution (CR) that will fund the government moving forward. ...more
A new president, coupled with Republican control of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives — with a number of House races still pending — will fundamentally alter the operation of the executive branch and...more
The election of Donald Trump as president, combined with forthcoming Republican control of Congress, likely means significant change in how the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) is structured and approaches...more
“President-elect Trump is quickly centralizing power in the White House and looking to install loyalists in Cabinet agencies with the goal of avoiding the internal dissension that at times plagued his first administration.”...more
With any new Presidential administration come questions about what will change in terms of policy and law—and how quickly. Join Vinson & Elkins for an insightful program where we will discuss the expectations and procedural...more
Mexico’s first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, will take office on October 1, 2024. A month after her electoral triumph, the president-elect started introducing the future members of her presidential cabinet, including...more
In March 2021, our experienced intellectual property, antitrust, and health care litigation lawyers shared some predictions on antitrust policy and enforcement in the health care sector. In “Health Care Antitrust under...more
Corporate acquirers accustomed to government inertia in antitrust reform are navigating a sea change in Washington, according to Craig Seebald, a Washington, D.C.-based Partner and leader in the global Antitrust Group at...more
Jackson Walker Labor & Employment attorney Jackie Staple discuss what actions President Biden and his administration have taken during his first 100 days in office. Aside from prioritizing the COVID-19 vaccine distribution,...more
Congressional Update. It was another busy week on Capitol Hill. The U.S. Senate was, of course, preoccupied with the historic second impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump. In the U.S. House of Representatives,...more
Ballard Spahr attorneys Meredith Dante and Steve Suflas summarize developments at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) put in place by the Biden Administration. Meredith and Steve discuss the challenges Non-union and...more
At noon, eastern standard time, on January 20, 2021, Joseph R. Biden Jr. became the 46th president of the United States, giving Democrats control of the executive branch, and, albeit by the thinnest of margins (with Vice...more
With the inauguration of a new President come significant anticipated changes in many areas of business, but none more seismic than in labor, employment and immigration....more
This Post-Election Clean Tech Outlook will build upon Holland & Knight's previous alert and provide more insight on what President-Elect Joe Biden's victory means for clean tech as part of the new administration's energy and...more
Now that 2018 is winding down, the mid-term elections are behind us, and Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed as the newest Associate Justice to the United States Supreme Court, it is time for me to make my 2019 predictions for...more
Lawmakers returned from their Independence Day recess prepared for more legislative fireworks over a slew of outstanding agenda items, including a showdown over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace...more
When Congress returned after the December break, it needed to reach a spending agreement on government funding for the remainder of fiscal year 2018. Since October 2017, the government had been funded through a series of...more
Busy January: Congress has left town with a long list of items that it will need to handle in January and throughout the first quarter of 2018. The continuing resolution that Congress just passed only funds the government...more