06 Jun, 2024 The Office of the National Cyber Director Releases 2024 Report on Cybersecurity Posture By Trisha Sircar On May 7, 2024, the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released the 2024 Report on the Cybersecurity Posture of the United...
08 Jan, 2025 Key Highlights of India's Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 By Catherine O'Brien On January 3, 2025, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology ("MeitY") released the Draft Digital Personal Data...
08 Jan, 2025 U.S. Eases Economic Sanctions on Syria By Jacques Semmelman In the aftermath of the overthrow of the Assad government on December 8, 2024, the United States has eased (but has not lifted) its...
07 Jan, 2025 The CFTC Codifies the Letter 19-17 Compliance Processes Around Separately Margined Accounts By Stephen Morris In 2014, the Joint Audit Committee issued a Regulatory Alert insisting that futures commission merchant (FCM) clearing members treat...
30 Dec, 2024 IRS Broker Rule for Digital Assets Faces Constitutional Challenge From Industry Leaders By Dan Davis Alex Kim Three digital asset organizations have jointly filed a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) new digital asset broker...
23 Dec, 2024 Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Protect Consumers' Privacy and Vehicle Data By Trisha Sircar On December 18, 2024, Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced the bipartisan Auto Data Privacy and Autonomy Act (the...
23 Dec, 2024 The US Government Charges China-Based Hacker for Exploiting Zero-Day Vulnerability By Trisha Sircar On December 10, 2024, the federal government unsealed an indictment in federal court in Indiana, charging Chinese national Guan Tianfeng...
23 Dec, 2024 The European Data Protection Board Releases Opinion on Artificial Intelligence By Trisha Sircar On December 18, 2024, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued an opinion on personal data use in artificial intelligence (AI) in...
16 Dec, 2024 President-Elect Trump Taps Andrew Ferguson to Serve as FTC Chair and Nominates Mark Meador as Commissioner By Trisha Sircar On December 10, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced that FTC commissioner Andrew Ferguson will chair the agency, while...
13 Dec, 2024 Fifth Circuit Strikes Down Board Diversity Rules in En Banc Decision By Ny'esha Young Johnjerica Hodge India Williams In a 9-8 en banc decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit blocked the Nasdaq board diversity rules, ruling that the U.S....
09 Dec, 2024 2024 Year-End Estate Planning: New York Updates By Joshua Rubenstein Jonathan Byer Emily Tuten In 2024, there was much legislative activity in New York that affected the Private Wealth realm. A brief summary of the 2024 changes...
09 Dec, 2024 2024 Year-End Estate Planning: California Updates By Joshua Rubenstein Jonathan Byer Avi Pariser Uniform Directed Trust Act and Uniform Fiduciary Income and Principal Act Become Effective As reported in Katten's 2023 Year-End...
09 Dec, 2024 2024 Year-End Estate Planning: International Developments By Joshua Rubenstein Jonathan Byer Ellery Sever It has been back to business as usual for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and Department of the Treasury in 2024. US tax authorities...
09 Dec, 2024 2024 Year-End Estate Planning: Illinois Updates By Joshua Rubenstein Jonathan Byer Jack Bradley The following is a summary of some of the key legislative and judicial updates from Illinois in 2024. Control and Protection of Trust...
09 Dec, 2024 2024 Year-End Estate Planning: Retirement Planning By Joshua Rubenstein Jonathan Byer John Spellman Mitchel Pahl +1 more... Show less The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the SECURE Act), was originally signed into law on December 20,...
09 Dec, 2024 2024 Year-End Estate Planning: Legislative Proposals By Joshua Rubenstein Jonathan Byer Andrew Toporoff President-Elect Donald Trump has not published a comprehensive tax plan as of the time of this writing, but he and Vice President-Elect...
09 Dec, 2024 2024 Year-End Estate Planning: Important Planning Considerations for 2024 and 2025 By Joshua Rubenstein Jonathan Byer Jon Kohl The "big ticket" item of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is the significant increase to the lifetime gift, estate and...