Despite the program's success, there remains considerable room for public companies and SEC registrants to improve their internal reporting apparatus—to build cultures that encourage whistleblowers to report internally without fear of reprisal, and systems that evaluate (and appropriately leverag

Starting in 2020, companies that pay at least $600 for services performed by someone who is not their employee are required to use the new Form 1099-NEC to report the nonemployee compensation. The Form 1099-MISC will no longer be used to report such compensation....

In a case involving the question of when unoccupied habitat may be designated “critical habitat” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the U.S. Supreme Court held that critical habitat land must first be habitat before it could be “critical habitat.” Weyerhaeuser Co. v. U.S. FWS, 139 S.Ct.

In light of the major cybersecurity breach of the SolarWinds Orion software by malicious actors, the Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center (WaterISAC) recently issued a series of advisories providing guidance for water providers across the country on how to respond and react to this unpre