Insights

7/30/2021 7:06:00 PM

Gulf of Mexico Offshore Wind Development One Step Closer to Reality—What That Means for the Energy Sector

By Lisa Rushton

To date, offshore wind development in the U.S. has focused on the Atlantic Coast, particularly the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions....

7/29/2021 4:33:00 PM

Preparing for the Post-Quantum Migration: A Race to Save the Internet

By Womble Bond Dickinson

Most people don’t know, or care to know, about cryptography. Without cryptography, the internet privacy that we all rely on for...

7/27/2021 9:05:00 PM

Synthetic Data May Be The Solution to AI Privacy Concerns

By Ted Claypoole

AI is hungry for data.Training and testing the machine-learning tools to perform desired tasks consumes huge lakes of data. More data...

7/20/2021 3:14:00 PM

Watson as a Warning: Current Limits and Promise of AI

By Ted Claypoole

We can’t seem to decide whether AI will replace humanity as the dominant intellectual force or if it will simply be a sideshow never...

7/20/2021 2:05:00 PM

Sublandlord Considerations When Subleasing Space

By Julia Kreyskop

The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the number of companies that are switching to full-time telework or hybrid work arrangements, often...

7/19/2021 4:03:00 PM

UK Freeports: Lessons From the US

By Womble Bond Dickinson

Freeports or Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs) as they are referred to in the US are more established and the UK could take insight from the...

7/13/2021 11:06:00 PM

‘Promoting Competition in the American Economy’ Executive Order Would Open Economic Growth, Ban Non-Compete Agreements

By Womble Bond Dickinson

On Friday, July 9th, the White House issued an Executive Order on ‘Promoting Competition in the American Economy’. The Executive Order...

7/13/2021 11:01:00 PM

Truist Financial: One Bank's Approach To ESG

By Mark Henriques

In March 2021, Truist Financial, one of the nation's largest banks, issued its first social bond of $1.25 billion, as part of the...

7/13/2021 9:03:00 PM

Reputation is Everything: Managing the Message

By Nadia Aram Claire Rauscher Fred Rom +1 more...

In June 2021, Womble Bond Dickinson offered a comprehensive look at ESG from a variety of viewpoints. The “Doing Well By Doing Good: How...

7/13/2021 4:30:00 PM

Right To Hide The Truth: How Much Should Be Deleted?

By Ted Claypoole

Is more information always better?If someone wants to limit the use of information, and others want to expose, discuss or publicize it,...

7/12/2021 9:39:00 PM

While Legislative Hurdles Remain, We Take a Look at North Carolina's Medical Marijuana Bill

By Morgan Persinger

North Carolina's move to join the overwhelming majority of states that have legalized the use of medical marijuana recently took a small,...

7/9/2021 7:30:00 PM

Biden Signs Executive Order Reshaping Competition for Tech and the Internet

By Carri Bennet Michael Bennet Martin L. Stern +2 more...

Today, President Biden signed a sweeping Executive Order containing 72 directives for more than a dozen federal agencies to impose...

7/9/2021 6:24:00 PM

Biden Administration Issues Sweeping Executive Order to Foster Competition

By Carri Bennet

This afternoon, President Biden signed a landmark executive order aimed at promoting economic competition by limiting the power of large...

7/8/2021 6:09:00 PM

The Re-Emergence of Ecstasy - But Not at the Club

By Madeline Campbell

In August of 2017, the FDA granted breakthrough therapy designation to MDMA (a.k.a., Ecstasy/Molly) for the treatment of Post-Traumatic...

7/8/2021 5:11:00 PM

Colorado Passes Comprehensive Privacy Law – 4 Quick Takeaways

By Tara N. Cho Ted Claypoole Nadia Aram +1 more...

Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, signed the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”) into law on July 7th, 2021. Colorado joins California and...

7/6/2021 4:28:00 PM

The Wu Khan Clan Enters the Battle Arena

By Ted Claypoole

Columbia University Law Professor Tim Wu has written profoundly and persuasively for decades about anti-competitive behavior in the U.S....