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In an article for Employee Relations Law Journal, Partner Joseph Torres and Associates George Allan and Emma O’Connor examine a recent decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, which serves as a useful reminder of some of the pitfalls of failing to comply with ERISA’s disclosure requirements. They discuss statutory and regulatory disclosure requirements, and a recent Tenth Circuit decision, M. S. v. Premera Blue Cross.

A family had spent their entire lives in Gaza before having to flee the war in November 2023. After a year in Egypt, a Jenner & Block team secured the family a rarely granted humanitarian parole status, allowing them to travel to the United States with their two young children and settle with family there. However, abrupt changes in the legal landscape left the family suddenly vulnerable to removal.

On October 21, 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the US Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released for comment proposals to implement President Biden’s February 2024 Executive Order 14117 (the EO), “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern.”1The proposed rules are framed as national security, rather than data privacy, regulations and will regula

Lawyers from Jenner & Block’s London Office were featured in the Pro Bono Recognition List of England & Wales.

A Jenner & Block team has secured asylum for three Afghan siblings whose mother and two youngest sisters were murdered by the Taliban in February 2022. The team initially became involved in the matter after the firm took on numerous Afghan Humanitarian Parole (HP) cases following the Taliban’s capture of Kabul. In October 2021, the team began helping the entire family with their HP applications.

On the heels of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), another bridge has been built across the Atlantic to streamline data transfers between businesses.

On July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted its much-anticipated adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF).[1]The decision concludes that the US ensures an adequate level of protection—comparable to that in the EU—for personal data transferred from the EU to US companies that are participating in the DPF. On the basis of the new adequacy decision, personal data can flow safely from the EU to US companies that are certified under the DPF, without the implementation of add

In their column, Jenner & Block Partner Joe Torres and Associate Emma O’Connor continue their examination of “the issue of whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) allows plans to require arbitration of ERISA claims” and the challenges that plan sponsors have to navigate. The authors highlight several cases, exploring different occurrences and outcomes.