As AI becomes embedded in everyday business and legal operations, organizations are confronting a new expectation: simply disclosing AI use is no longer enough. A critical shift is taking place in the legal industry: transparency is no longer just about disclosure; it’s about comprehension.
This article explores recent trends in the use of confidential information on prediction markets, how the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulates that conduct, and practical considerations for businesses.
The Department of Justice's March 2026 proposed rule, which state bar associations, former grievance attorneys, and political advocates frame as a power grab by the current administration, represents an attempt to re-open a long-ago resolved feud between the DOJ and the states over who regulates the ethical conduct of federal prosecutors.
The Illinois Department of Human Rights has drafted rules for the implementation of the new amendments. Below is a list of questions employers should be able to answer before integrating any new AI tool into their business in order to avoid costly penalties for violations of the new rules.
Trade crimes have emerged as a defining enforcement priority in white collar practice. For defense practitioners, the shift demands more than awareness; it requires retooling case strategies, developing technical fluency in complex regulatory regimes, and rethinking how to challenge the government’s theories of intent and culpability.
This article covers potential landmines for the average elected official or public employee, particularly through the lens of the always developing Open Public Records Act and will provide some tools that municipal attorneys can use to fight back against self-inflicted wounds or AI overreach.
For most of its 136-year history, Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act was more of a threat than a weapon. The provision — which prohibits the willful acquisition or maintenance of monopoly power through anticompetitive conduct — carried demanding proof requirements, required expensive and expansive discovery, and produced so few trial victories that enforcers rarely tested it. When they did, they usually lost. That calculus may be shifting.
Together, EO 14365 and the National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence raise questions about the future of state and local laws governing employers’ use of AI, many of which are intended to protect against discrimination in connection with the use of AI.
Newly-adopted guidelines from the U.S. panel that determines federal sentencing policy could result in lower sentences for those convicted of white collar crimes.
This article discusses two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions that suggest courts may be seeking to rein in the use of these financial tools of criminal and civil enforcement.
