On June 6, 2025 President Trump signed an Executive Order, Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144 (the “Trump Cyber EO”). The Trump Cyber EO rescinds and modifies select Biden administration guidance from EO 14144 covering several cybersecurity regimes, including digital identity verification, artificial intelligence, and
Trump’s New Cybersecurity Executive Order: What Contractors Need to Know
On June 6, 2025, the Trump Administration released a new Executive Order (“EO”) on cybersecurity, Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144.[1] The Executive Order itself will not impose new obligations on agencies; instead, it strikes, amends, and updates certain provisions in prior Executive
Lost in Translation: Key Deal Points in European vs. U.S. M&A Transactions
After two decades practicing law in Silicon Valley and five formative years working on cross-border deals in Europe, I’ve come to appreciate the subtle (and not-so-subtle) differences in how merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions are structured on either side of the Atlantic. For buyers and sellers on opposite sides of the divide, these can be
Form Letters You and Your Clients will Love
by Jim Calloway
OBA Management Assistance Program
(Originally published Oklahoma Bar Journal March 7, 1998 – Vol. 69; No. 10. Reprinted with permission.)
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Spellbook’s survey shows that 97 percent of in-house lawyers who use AI find it useful in their work
April 2025 Cybersecurity Developments Under the Trump Administration
This is the third blog in a series of Covington blogs on cybersecurity policies, executive orders (“EOs”), and other actions of the new Trump Administration. This blog describes key cybersecurity developments that took place in April 2025.
NIST Publishes Initial Draft of Guidance for High Performance Computing Systems
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology
Solos and small firms lag with AI adoption: Clio report
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April 2025 AI Developments Under the Trump Administration
This is part of an ongoing series of Covington blogs on the AI policies, executive orders, and other actions of the Trump Administration. This blog describes AI actions taken by the Trump Administration in April 2025, and prior articles in this series are available here.
White House OMB Issues AI Use & Procurement Requirements
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Business & Legal Developments | May 2025
Friends,In last month’s newsletter, we discussed the potential impact of newly announced U.S. tariffs on the venture capital (VC) landscape and explored how rising costs and new tariffs could pressure startups, particularly those in the technology sector, and slow demand later in 2025.This month, we continue to focus on the growing impact of market uncertainty