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Energy & Cleantech Industry Group Co-Leader and Partner Amy Antoniolli will speak on federal permitting reforms and their impact on local renewable energy projects at EUCI’s Derisking Energy Project Permitting Conference on June 23, 2026.

AFS Partner Lauren Wolven will be a panelist at the WTTW | WFMT Annual Professional Advisor Seminar, sponsored by Northern Trust, in Chicago on June 17, 2026.

Chicago Partner Matt Prewitt will serve as a panelist at the Trade Secret Strategy Summit: New York, hosted by CenterForce, on June 3, 2026, in New York.

ArentFox Schiff will be hosting the NYCPA Estate Planning Conference, long recognized as one of the premier estate planning programs in the Northeast, on May 21 in New York.

International Trade & Investment Partner and Customs & Import Compliance Practice Leader Angela Santos will speak on a CLE panel exploring the growing friction between customs valuation and transfer pricing regimes in global trade at the ABA International Law Section’s Annual Conference on May 14, 2026.

International Trade & Investment Senior Attorney Tanya Secor will moderate a CLE panel, co-chaired by International Trade & Investment Partner Christopher Skinner, on the increasing importance of rules of origin in today’s global trade environment at the ABA International Law Section’s Annual Conference on May 12, 2026.

Energy & Cleantech Industry Group Co-Leader Sarah Fitts will speak on a CLE panel outlining practical strategies for adopting and implementing artificial intelligence (AI) across legal operations at the ABA International Law Section’s Annual Conference on May 12, 2026.

International Trade and Investment Counsel Sylvia Costelloe will speak on a panel discussing how new Department of Commerce regulations on information technology are reshaping supply chain security as part of the ABA’s ILS Annual Conference on May 12, 2026.

Copyright Partner Matt Finkelstein will speak on a panel titled From Deals to Wealth: Managing the Artist Business at Trusted Advisor’s 4th Annual Music x NYC Summit on May 7, 2026.

Michelle J. Shapiro will speak on the “Health Care Fraud Enforcement: Examining the Current Era” panel at the Boston Bar Association’s (BBA) 2026 White-Collar Crime Conference.

AFS Partner Tracy L. McLaughlin will present on May 5, 2026, at the New York City Bar’s webinar “Ownership of Cooperative Apartments and Condominiums by Trusts: An Overview of Popular Trusts and Obtaining Transfer Approval from Cooperative Boards.”

Washington, DC Partner Jackson David Toof will serve as a panel moderator at the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Association of Insolvency & Restructuring Advisors valuation conference on Wednesday, May 6.

On April 23, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced a final order reclassifying US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drug products containing “marijuana” and cannabis products regulated under qualifying state-issued medical marijuana licenses from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), effective April 28. Critically, adult-use (recreational) cannabis remains in Schedule I.

On April 22, Virginia enacted a new paid family and medical leave (PFML) insurance program after Governor Abigail Spanberger’s proposed amendments to Senate Bill 2 and House Bill 1207 were adopted by the General Assembly.

Everyone is talking about peptides. Your doctor, your trainer, that guy at the dinner party who swears that BPC-157 rebuilt his knee — peptides have officially entered the zeitgeist. But for every breathless testimonial, there is a thicket of regulations that most market participants barely understand.

Rapid changes to US tariff policy have transformed what were once transactional import decisions into issues with enterprise-wide implications. The reliance on tariffs has had bipartisan support across Administrations, and the risks are not going away.

Individuals facing federal fraud and tax evasion charges may soon see lower advisory guideline ranges under proposed Sentencing Guidelines amendments.

With the release of the DC Board of Elections’ (DCBOE) official ballot for the 2026 District party primaries on June 16, the field is now set for one of the District’s most consequential local elections in the 50 years since Home Rule.

Sustainability reports have become a routine part of corporate disclosures for many US companies, even though no single federal law requires them.

When the Delaware Supreme Court held in Maffei v. Palkon that Tripadvisor’s reincorporation from Delaware to Nevada should be reviewed under the business judgement rule and not the entire fairness standard (all but ensuring the company’s departure), the business community widely viewed the decision as another nail in the coffin of Delaware’s dominance of corporate formations.

On April 18, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) directing multiple federal agencies to accelerate research and expand access to psychedelic drugs as potential treatments for serious mental health conditions. The EO represents a notable shift in federal policy toward psychedelic substances and their potential therapeutic use.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is signaling that health care and life sciences companies should expect heightened regulatory scrutiny related to consumer protection and competition.

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries

A Will County circuit court ordered the county board to issue permits for six solar energy projects in one of the first decisions applying last month’s landmark Equity Solar appellate ruling.

Imagine you are about to enter a sprawling, complex product liability multidistrict litigation (MDL) — on either side of the “v.” Hundreds of parties, a mountain of discovery, and years of litigation loom ahead. What if you could shape the case’s trajectory from day one?