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It's been a Whac-A-Mole year for in-house counsel, with the Biden administration's regulatory agencies unleashing a blizzard of new rules and enforcement actions and state legislatures and state attorneys general increasingly casting themselves as champions of consumer protection.

The environment has generated a deluge of work for outside counsel, who've been counseling clients on everything from how to write a compliant employee handbook to how to sell goods online without being accused of "dark patterns" marketing.