9/12/2025 8:06:46 PM Time to Comply: Pentagon Contractors Soon to Face Enhanced Cyber Security Requirements By Brock Dahl Beth George Andrew Gabel On September 10, 2025 the Department of Defense (DoD) issued its final rule (Rule) amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation...
9/9/2025 12:02:58 AM Syria Export Control Rollback: US Continues to Relax Restrictions By Nabeel Yousef Stephanie Brown Cripps Kimberly Zelnick Andrew Bulovsky Keian Razipour +2 more... Show less The US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a new rule, effective September 2, 2025, that significantly...
9/5/2025 4:47:22 PM Sixth Circuit Reinforces Attorney-Client and Work-Product Protections for Internal Investigations By Timothy Harkness Christian Vandergeest Steven Fisher Eva Vivero Israa Saber +2 more... Show less The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently issued a decision reaffirming key elements of attorney-client privilege and...
9/4/2025 2:31:59 PM Ninth Circuit Greenlights Broad Use of Discovery In Foreign Proceedings By Timothy Harkness Peter Linken Allison Beeman Litigants try to use 28 U.S.C. § 1782 applications to get tactical advantages in transnational litigation all the time. After all, the...
8/19/2025 8:33:23 PM Are Hyperlinks the New Email Attachments in Civil Discovery? Freshfields Lawyers Featured in the New York Law Journal By Rob McCallum Peter Linken David Howard Heather Cameron Celia Garrett Jordan McGuffee +3 more... Show less On August 18, 2025, the New York Law Journal published an article by Freshfields lawyers titled “Hyperlinked Documents: Modern...
8/13/2025 3:12:03 PM False Claims Enforcement Under the Second Trump Administration By Daniel Cendan Peter Linken Emmeline Chen Over halfway through the first year of President Trump’s second term, the Administration has employed a range of legal and regulatory...
8/8/2025 6:39:37 PM Major Court Victory for International Banks: What You Need to Know By Timothy Harkness Kimberly Zelnick Rob McCallum Matthew Haggans Peter Linken Matthew Rublin +3 more... Show less International banks recently won a significant legal battle that could reshape the scope of potential liability in terrorism-related...
8/7/2025 1:12:36 PM Second Circuit Cites Freshfields in Chapter 15 Safe Harbor Ruling By David Livshiz Madlyn Primoff Henry Hutten In a groundbreaking decision of particular importance to participants in Chapter 15 proceedings, the United States Court of Appeals for...
7/28/2025 3:12:34 PM The Evolving Landscape of E-Discovery for Mobile Devices: Sedona Conference Releases Draft Commentary By Rob McCallum Peter Linken David Howard Robert Barton Paloma Palmer +2 more... Show less “The use of mobile devices is ubiquitous. As a result, it is not surprising that they are an increasingly relevant data source in...
7/10/2025 8:52:48 PM D.C. Circuit Reins in SEC Authority: Proxy Voting Advice No Longer a Solicitation Under the Exchange Act By Melissa Hodgman Elizabeth Bieber Erik Gerding David Nicolardi +1 more... Show less Executive Summary In a pivotal decision issued on July 1, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that proxy voting...
7/2/2025 6:34:41 PM Supreme Court to Decide Key Case on Private Shareholder Lawsuits Against Registered Investment Funds By Erik Gerding Melissa Hodgman David Nicolardi Introduction On June 30, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted cert to hear a case that could significantly impact how registered...
7/1/2025 7:53:21 PM Second Circuit: Convertible Note Lenders Not Always Required to Register as a Securities Dealer By Melissa Hodgman Peter Linken Amanda Huang In a significant decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently affirmed the dismissal of claims alleging that a...