Taylor Bandy – On January 28, 2019, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) issued Regulatory Notice 19-04 (“Regulatory Notice”) which encourages broker-dealers to self-report violations of FINRA Rules surrounding 529 savings plans (“529 plans”) recommendations. The 529 Plan Share Class Initiative (the “Initiative”) is aimed at increasing compliance with FINRA rules relating to supervision and […]

Chandler Culwell – The rule of arbitration clauses, a tenet of contract law, is often taught to today’s law students by way of the Supreme Court’s holding in Rent-A-Center v. Jackson: if you challenge the enforceability of a contract that contains an arbitration clause, the challenge goes to arbitration, but if you challenge the enforceability […]

Phoenix Barker – Dating back to 2017, the Department of Defense (“DoD”) began to undertake steps to keep up with the changing character of war in the age of technology, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Specifically, one of the steps assumed by the DoD was to expedite the adoption of cloud computing technologies. Patrick Shanahan, […]

Daniel Rico – As the partial government shutdown approaches the three-week mark, much work has grounded to a halt and about 800,000 federal employees are feeling the effects. Because consumer spending makes up nearly 70% of economic activity in the United States, a primary channel in which the shutdown effects Americans is through the withheld […]