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Future Proofing Your Contracts for DORA

The EU wants to bring a harmonious, standards-based approach to regulating how financial businesses monitor resilience and avoid ICT-related risks. Up until now, cloudy guidance on how this can be achieved creates further risk. Enter DORA with its intentions to provide clarity to financial entities. This includes expanded requirements that must be incorporated into contracts between financial entities and ICT third-party providers.
7 minute read

Law.com

The DOJ's Whistleblower Pilot Program Adds Incentives for Robust Corporate Compliance Programs

By incentivizing individuals to report misconduct through its Whistleblower Pilot Program, the DOJ has expanded its arsenal and the means by which it can identify misconduct. So wrongdoers beware — although this is not the Old West, everybody loves a good bounty.
10 minute read

National Law Journal

Would FTC Chair Lina Khan Stay on Under a President Harris or Trump?

With Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump seeking the presidency, questions have arisen as to whether Khan would be compatible with either administration. It is unclear how either presidential nominee plans to address antitrust and consumer protection matters.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

Drone Operator Tells Supreme Court His Aerial Mapping Business Is Protected Speech

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit saw things differently and upheld North Carolina's licensing regime as a regulation of conduct, not speech.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Deal or No Deal? Anticipating Antitrust Under the Next Administration

"The most significant daylight between Trump and Harris competition policy may center on Big Tech enforcement," write Karen Hoffman Lent and Kenneth Schwartz.
10 minute read

Law.com

The Week in Data Sept. 6: A Look at Legal Industry Trends by the Numbers

Catch up on this week's data and insights from across the Law.com Newsroom, including Law.com Pro Mid-Market's ranking of midsize firms by revenue.
1 minute read

New York Law Journal

Is Judicial Deference to Government Agency Decisions in Eminent Domain Cases at Risk?

"What does 'Chevron' being overruled mean with respect to the courts deferring to a government agency's determination that an eminent domain property acquisition qualifies as a 'public use'?" writes Jennifer Polovetsky of Duane Morris.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Gov. Hochul Appoints Wilmer Partner Brian Mahanna as Top Counsel

Mahanna will be in the top legal counsel role in the governor's office, after Elizabeth Fine's planned departure.
3 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Compliance Chiefs See Pay Surge as Regulatory Onslaught Buries Perception It's a Backwater Role

"Companies have increasingly trended toward moving the compliance function to an independent organization, sitting as a peer to the legal function." according a Major, Lindsey & Africa report.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY Government Attorneys Asks High Court to Restore Ethics Watchdog's Authority

An ethics investigation of former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, whose attorneys from Holwell Shuster & Goldberg LLP moved to sideline the Commission on Ethics and Lobbying in Government, hangs in the balance.
4 minute read

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