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National Law Journal

CFPB Takes Constitutional Fight to Full DC Circuit, as Trump Preps for Office

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whose regulatory and enforcement mission faces a threat from the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress, on Friday asked a federal appeals court in Washington to rehear a dispute over the constitutionality of the agency's power structure.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

US Justice Department Has a Duty to Defend—Only When It Doesn't

Obama's DOJ drew criticism for dropping DOMA. What laws will Trump's administration stop defending?
12 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Destination Arbitration? British Virgin Islands Opens New Arbitration Center

A new arbitration center in the British Virgin Islands has formally opened for business. And some high-profile figures in the arbitration world are getting behind the effort.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

US Justice Department Has a Duty to Defend—Only When It Doesn't

As startling as the U.S. Justice Department's abandonment of the Defense of Marriage Act might have appeared in 2011, presidential administrations of both political parties have exercised discretion to decline to defend certain laws. Donald Trump's Justice Department is next up to balk at the duty to defend.
12 minute read

Legaltech News

Report from Russia: Rising Interest in Blockchain Technologies, Amid Legal Issues

Current regulations and legal obstacles may pose challenges for Russian promoters and developers of cryptocurrencies and other blockchain applications.
14 minute read

The American Lawyer

Massive US Fine Halts UK Government Bank Selloff

The U.K. government's plans to offload more of its majority holding in Royal Bank of Scotland have been put on hold due to a massive impending fine from the U.S. Department of Justice.
22 minute read

Daily Business Review

Destination Arbitration? British Virgin Islands Opens New Arbitration Center

The British Virgin Islands has launched a new arbitration center with the hope that it will become a go-to forum for commercial arbitrations arising worldwide.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Could Donald Trump's SEC Soften Enforcement of Severance Agreements?

In a seven-day span in August, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sent back-to-back warnings to corporate executives that inference with whistleblowers would not be tolerated.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

Could Donald Trump's SEC Soften Enforcement of Severance Agreements?

Critics of the SEC's whistleblower program said recent settlements against companies over their severance agreements marked an agency that had stretched too far in its interpretation of Dodd-Frank's protections for tipsters. Now, as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office and shape the SEC, lawyers in the whistleblower field are watching to see whether the commission continues to take a stand against restrictive severance agreements or turns down the heat.
9 minute read

The American Lawyer

UK Faces Five-Year, $65 Billion Brexit Divorce

The U.K. might have to pay the European Union as much as 60 billion euros ($65 billion) in order to leave the political bloc in a process that could take longer than five years to complete, the Financial Times reports.
21 minute read

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