By: Dana Walsh Sivak New York’s Medical Aid in Dying Act officially took effect today, August 5, 2026, six months after Governor Kathy Hochul signed the legislation (S.138/A.136) into law on February 6, 2026 (New...

By: Angela M. Stockbridge This series has covered equity compensation, deferred compensation, Section 409A compliance, and the Section 280G golden parachute rules. In this installment, we turn to the contractual framework...

By: Katarina Neumann & Elizabeth Schlissel  That promotional email your marketing team sent this morning could cost your business millions of dollars. Last week, Costco agreed to pay $14 million to settle a single...

By Moish Peltz and Kyle Lawrence For years, bringing real-world assets on-chain has been one of crypto’s defining ambitions. After years of pilot programs and proofs of concept, institutional adoption appears to be...

For business leaders, legal professionals, and executives embracing AI, writing an AI policy is only the first step. The real challenge is ensuring that policy becomes part of how the organization actually operates.  In the...

By Matthew E. Foreman and Joelle M. Vilinsky Introduction On July 8, 2026, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) announced the Automatic Exemption from Penalty (“AEP”) program, which replaces the long-standing First...

By: Angela M. Stockbridge In earlier installments, we covered equity compensation, the 83(b) election, deferred compensation, and Section 409A compliance. Now we turn to Section 280G, a provision that can impose severe...

By: Angela M. Stockbridge In Parts 1 and 2, we covered stock options, restricted stock, RSUs, phantom stock, SARs, and the Section 83(b) election. In this installment, we examine nonqualified deferred compensation, SERPs,...

By: Angela M. Stockbridge Plaintiffs filed two new ERISA suits on June 23, 2026. One in Maryland. One in Connecticut. Both target the same fiduciary duty, and both push the theory onto new ground. Our earlier post covered...

By: Moish E. Peltz Generative AI has moved from novelty to necessity in a matter of months, and employees across nearly every industry are quietly incorporating it into their daily work, often without their employer’s...