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On February 10, 2026, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York issued a bench ruling holding that a defendant’s use of generative AI to analyze legal exposure is not protected under attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine. See When AI Isn’t Privileged: SDNY Rules Generative AI Documents Not Protected.…

On February 12, 2026, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the settlement of an enforcement action against IMG Academy (“IMG”) that highlighted the sanctions risks that U.S. academic institutions face and the steps OFAC recommends the institutions to take the address the risks.  The enforcement action stemmed from IMG accepting tuition payments from…

Executive Summary

  • Independent, unsupervised use of generative AI to analyze legal exposure may not be privileged. A federal court held that a defendant’s AI prompts and outputs relating to a criminal investigation of his conduct were not protected after they were seized pursuant to a search warrant.
  • Platform terms matter. If an AI provider reserves

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In advance of the anticipated rollout of the “TrumpRx” website, a platform promising lower-priced drugs sold directly to consumers, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services released a special advisory bulletin on Jan. 27, 2026, outlining the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute implications for direct-to-consumer drug sales. The OIG concludes that…

On January 16, 2026, the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted a video on social media announcing that the Department of War will conduct a “line‑by‑line review of every small business, sole source, 8(a) contract that is over $20 million,” focusing on impermissible pass‑throughs to large businesses.  This action by the DoW aligns with broader…

On Jan. 8, 2026, the White House announced the establishment of the DOJ’s Division for National Fraud Enforcement. The Trump administration stated that the new division will “combat the rampant and pervasive problem of fraud in the United States” and “enforce the Federal criminal and civil laws against fraud targeting Federal government programs, Federally funded…

On December 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a multifaceted data-driven operation to address potential money laundering, focused on more than 100 U.S. money services businesses (MSBs) operating along the southwest border. MSBs are non-bank financial institutions that provide certain financial services, including money transmission, check cashing,…

The Senate has introduced the Streamlining Transaction Reporting and Ensuring Anti-Money Laundering Improvements for a New Era Act, or the STREAMLINE Act, an initiative led by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott and Senator John Kennedy, with support from several Republican co-sponsors.

For the first time in over five decades, the bill would modernize…

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has recently taken two steps in furtherance of the Trump Administration’s deregulatory agenda.  In late September, FinCEN posted a notice to the Federal Register soliciting comments on a proposed “Survey of the Costs of Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Compliance” to be completed by non-bank…