SEC Reverses Position on Mandatory Arbitration Clauses in IPOs

Associate Tal Ratner Solovey will speak on a panel hosted by the Jewish Federation Los Angeles (JFEDLA) Legal and Tech Networks on August 10 in Century City.

Partner Lucy Blake authored an article for The Times examining Canada's recent decision to wind down its corporate human rights watchdog, the Office of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE). She explores what that move signals about the broader shift in how companies are being held accountable for forced labour and supply chain abuses.

Chicago Partner Nicole Allen has been selected as one of Leadership Greater Chicago’s Class of 2027 Signature Fellows. The leadership development fellowship immerses its participants in the region’s civic landscape, engaging them in addressing critical socioeconomic issues affecting the area, including community safety, health inequality, affordable housing, education, and economic development. 

John Edwards’s resignation as UK Information Commissioner (ICO) on 19 June 2026 followed an independent workplace investigation that found Mr Edwards’s conduct fell short of the standard expected of a public official, including using language that the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology described as “vulgar and highly sexualised”.

Partner Adam Unikowsky, Co-Chair of Jenner & Block's AI Task Force, was featured in Law360 Pulse, where he discussed the firm's push to build out AI-focused roles at the associate level. The push comes as part of a broader trend of BigLaw firms expanding AI positions from the C-suite into the associate and partner ranks.

Jenner & Block welcomed Chicago-area alumni and clients back to 353 N. Clark Street on July 29 for an evening of reconnecting, celebrating, and looking ahead together.

On 24 June 24, 2026, the English Court of Appeal in CC/Devas (Mauritius) Limited v. India unanimously held that a state’s ratification of the 1958 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (NY Convention) does not, of itself, amount to a submission to the adjudicative jurisdiction of the English courts for the purposes of section 2(2) of the State Immunity Act 1978 (SIA).1 In dismissing the appeal, the Court of Appeal declined to extend the UK Supreme Court’s reaso

Partner Rachel Alpert authored an article for Just Security examining the Treasury Department's short-lived Iran sanctions relief, from the issuance of General License X to its revocation weeks later.

In Bloomberg Law, Partner Adam Unikowsky and Associate Laurel Raymond examined Jenner & Block's landmark US Supreme Court win in Chatrie v. United States, which held that accessing a person's location data in the cloud is a "search" under the Fourth Amendment, requiring law enforcement to obtain a warrant satisfying the Constitution's probable cause and particularity requirements.

Jenner & Block secured a win before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on behalf of client Adacel Systems, Inc., successfully defending an FAA contract award against a challenge brought by a competing contractor. 

On July 21, Jenner & Block's Washington, DC office hosted an evening reception bringing together active-duty and veteran attorneys, their attorney spouses and partners, and in-house counsel for an evening of conversation and connection.

Partner Rachel Alpert co-authored an article for Lawfare examining what the year-long process of unwinding US sanctions on Syria suggests about the far more complex challenge of any future sanctions relief for Iran.

Since 2015, large companies doing business in the UK have had to publish an annual statement setting out the steps they take to prevent modern slavery in their operations and supply chains, under s.54 of the UK’s Modern Slavery Act (the MSA). In practice, the MSA has little bite: there are no mandatory requirements on statement content and no penalty for non-compliance.

On June 17, 2026, the General Services Administration (GSA) published a revised proposed contract clause, 552.239-7001, “Basic Safeguarding of Data within Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence Systems (LLMs),” which would impose substantial obligations on contractors processing government data through LLMs. This alert follows up on our prior coverage of GSA’s developing rules on the use of AI in GSA contracts.

Last month, the Supreme Court decided Cisco Systems v. Doe, holding that aiding-and-abetting claims are not available under two statutes frequently invoked in human rights litigation, the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) and the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991 (TVPA). In holding that an American company and its executives could not be liable for allegedly aiding and abetting violations of international law under the ATS and TVPA, the Court reaffirmed that the ATS is a jurisdictional statute and “c