Jenner & Block Japan Newsletter

On November 17, Partner Terri Mascherin will deliver this year’s Pope & John Lecture on Professionalism at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Her talk, entitled “Can We Be Civil in Uncivil Times?”, will begin at 12:15 pm CT.

On November 12, Jenner & Block Partner Ambassador Keith Harper will deliver the 17th Annual William C. Canby Jr. Lecture at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. His lecture, titled “After Brackeen, How Plenary Is Congressional Authority in Indian Affairs,” will examine the scope and limits of Congress’s authority to legislate in Indian affairs.

Partners Rachel Alpert and Rob Dalling will each moderate a panel at the Global Economics Sanctions Conference in London from November 12 to 13.

Most of the attention after the November 3 elections has gone to the Democrats’ sweeping victories in US Senate and US House races, where Democrats will hold both chambers of Congress with significant majorities. But another important story has greater implications for tech policy and regulation in 2027: Democrats’ control of state legislatures. While results will continue to roll in as votes are counted in the coming days and weeks, Democrats flipped at least one legislative chamber in at least

Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB) highlighted Jenner & Block’s pro bono work with Hitachi Energy’s in-house legal team to help artists, musicians, and digital creators in Kibera, Kenya, protect their intellectual property (IP).

The 2026 midterms have reshaped the balance of power in Washington and across the United States. In Congress, the incoming Democratic majorities in both chambers will install new committee chairs and set their own investigative agendas. In state capitals, newly elected governors and legislators will be eager to pass new laws regulating a wide array of industries, and newly elected attorneys general will no doubt be ready to use longstanding and newly-created enforcement mechanisms to carry out t

Voters across the country made their voices heard at the polls on Tuesday. Democrats have won the House, and their stated priorities of investigating allegations of corruption and the causes of affordability challenges will take center stage in the next Congress. 

Voters across the country made their voices heard at the polls on Tuesday—and did so resoundingly. In addition to taking control of the House, Democrats overcame a challenging map and won a majority in the Senate, including in some states once unthinkable. Senate Democrats’ stated priorities of investigating allegations of corruption and the causes of affordability challenges will likely take center stage. The Democratic-led Senate will also be in a position to exert leverage on President Trump’

As state attorneys general (AGs) continue to fill the enforcement void left by federal regulators, this midterm cycle showed candidates in both parties focused on consumer-facing enforcement, with affordability, cost-of-living pressures, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) safety guardrails featured prominently across races. Of the 31 AG seats on Tuesday’s ballots (including the District of Columbia), 20 had an incumbent seeking re-election, and 11 were open seats. Although results are not yet fina

Jenner & Block Partner David Kroeger will serve as co-chair of the International Bar Association (IBA) Insurance Committee. His two-year term begins January 1, 2027. 

A London start-up is stopped in its tracks by a regulator’s misreading of the rules. A global organization defending free expression needs counsel it can rely on, year after year. For the lawyers at Jenner & Block, these aren’t abstract problems. They’re calls to action.

On October 19, 2026, the US Supreme Court granted certiorari in Association for Education Fairness v. Montgomery County Board of Education, No. 26-12, an Equal Protection challenge to the lottery system a Maryland school district uses to admit students to its selective magnet middle schools. It marks the first time the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case concerning race in admissions since its landmark 2023 decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard Coll