January 2023

Sure, America has the Grand Canyon, baseball, and apple pie, but you know what it doesn’t have? A nationwide data protection law. Instead, data protection has been left up to a pastiche of state laws, regulations, and enforcement actions that demand many companies choose one state law to rule them all. California led the pack, being the first to pass a data protection law, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, going into effect January 1, 2020. Following California, only four other states have successfully enacted a data protection law, with Colorado and Virginia passing such laws in 2021 and Utah and Connecticut in 2022.Continue Reading Coming Soon? The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (SPOILERS)

When issues arise during performance of a federal government contract, causing a contractor to experience delays and/or to incur additional, unanticipated costs, contractors have a choice of remedies. They can request the contract duration or price be adjusted by submitting either a request for equitable adjustment (REA), or a claim. Though REAs and claims largely…

Last year, the Build America, Buy America Act left contractors scrambling to understand how its requirements would be imposed on a wide variety of infrastructure projects. Cara Wulf provides clarity to contractors on agencies’ evolving guidance.

*As appeared in The Government Contractor, article PDF provided in link.

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