The FTC’s 2026–2030 Strategic Plan sets out a five-year agenda focused on three priorities: consumer protection, competition enforcement, and operational efficiency. It highlights enforcement against unfair or deceptive practices, anticompetitive conduct, and illegal monopolies, while also aiming to improve agency performance through tools such as AI and data analytics.
The plan restores traditional mission language
Annual National Firearms Law Seminar
I will be one of the speakers in Houston on April 17 at the Annual National Firearms Law Seminar, the largest gathering of Second Amendment attorneys in the country. The seminar provides a unique opportunity for attorneys, judges, FFLs, and others interested in firearms law to discuss recent developments in the law.
The 2026 seminar
Companies Are Quietly Rolling Out AI Without Legal Review. Here’s the Risk No One Is Talking About
AI adoption is not happening at the top. It is happening in the shadows.
Most executives think AI adoption is a strategic decision.
It is not.
FTC Updates (March 23 – April 3, 2026)
The FTC has been active across both consumer protection and competition spaces in the past two weeks. In the consumer protection space, the agency announced several proposed settlements with companies and individuals, resolving complaints of alleged deceptive marketing, consumer privacy violations, and false advertising. In the competition space, the FTC and DOJ’s Antitrust Division launched
Intellectual Property Collateral and the Governance of Innovation Finance
Over the past several decades, the idea of what counts as corporate value has changed dramatically. Firms across technology, healthcare, and life sciences increasingly derive competitive advantage from intangible assets rather than physical capital. These assets include patents, software, proprietary data, and algorithms. As a result, lenders and private credit providers now finance companies whose
Lending Platform Hit with AI-Related Securities Suit
One of the interesting features of the rise of AI has been the advent of “AI-and” businesses – that is, businesses whose strategy is to apply AI tools to traditional business models. When “AI-and” business results fall short, securities litigation has sometimes followed. In the latest example of this kind of litigation, earlier this week
SEC Enforcement Results for FY 2025
This is press release that would not have been written by judge Margaret Ryan if she was still serving as the Director of Enforcement. She only lasted six months with the rapid down-sizing and lack of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
I was stunned to see the SEC attack its prior stewardship in
Rethinking Materiality in the Debate Over ESG
For nearly a decade, debates over ESG – environmental, social, and governance – disclosures have dominated corporate law and securities regulation. Should companies be required to disclose information about climate risk, workforce diversity, or governance practices? At first glance, this appears to be a policy question. In reality, it is a doctrinal one. The ESG
Proposed Fundamental Reforms to AML Programs
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a proposed rule intended to “fundamentally reform” financial institutions’ anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism programs under the Bank Secrecy Act. The three key changes according to FinCEN:
- Reduce unnecessary regulatory burden by allowing financial institutions to focus their resources on higher
SEC Announces Enforcement Results for Fiscal Year 2025
Central to an effective enforcement program is determining which cases to bring and responsibly stewarding Commission resources. Regrettably, such resources have been misapplied in prior years to pursue media headlines and run up numbers, and in turn, led to misguided expectations on what constitutes effective enforcement.
Fiscal Year 2025 Results & Supporting Context
During fiscal