A recent bill in New Jersey aims to reduce the tax burden on smaller merchants by removing the 200-transaction requirement from the state’s sales tax and corporation business tax nexus thresholds. Paul Buonaguro, attorney from our Tax and Benefits team, note that while the bill provides relief for Continue Reading
Feature Comment: The CUI Program: DOD, We Have A Problem (Part II)
Feature Comment: The CUI Program: DOD, We Have a Problem
The U.S. Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program will become operational at some point in fiscal year 2025. In October, the DOD issued a Final Rule to address evolving cybersecurity requirements and cyber threats while defining the security controls that DOD Continue Reading
Judiciary Under Fire: Understanding Mexico’s Controversial Judicial Reform
In one of his final acts as president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador promulgated a contentious judicial reform. López Obrador, whose six-year term ended on Sept. 30, celebrated the overhaul of the judiciary as a necessity and an important legacy of his government. However, the reform has Continue Reading
Surviving And Thriving In The Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Program: Maximizing Opportunities For NHOs, ANCs, and Tribes
The Loper Decision & the Future of AI Regulation
The Journal of Federal Agency Action, in its November/December 2024 issue, published Joe Mazzarella’s article about the challenges involved in the regulatory oversight of AI against the backdrop of the US Supreme Court’s recent decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. Joe says that while Continue Reading
Feature Comment: The New Madness? CMMC-Mania — It’s Arrived!
The Future of Arbitrability Disputes in Light of the Supreme Court’s Ruling in ‘Coinbase’
The Supreme Court ruled that an arbitrator may not always be vested with the authority to make the decision as to arbitrability in Coinbase v. Suski. The court held that when there are conflicting agreements regarding the arbitrability of a dispute, it is solely a question for the judiciary to Continue Reading
Joint Effort: How Cannabis Legalization Is Shaping New Jersey’s Psychedelics Legislation
The landscape of drug policy in the United States has shifted dramatically in recent years, most recently evidenced by DEA’s recommended rescheduling of cannabis. Cannabis legalization has been at the forefront of this movement, paving the way for a regulatory reset of other controlled Continue Reading
Feature Comment: A Rule of Three: NIST Special Publication 800-171 Rev. 3—Finale or Punchline?
The third revision of NIST Special Publication 800-171 brings substantial changes across several key areas: the structure of control families has been expanded to better address new threats, individual security controls have been updated to enhance overall system security, and the criteria for Continue Reading