FinCEN’s latest rule extends beneficial ownership reporting to all-cash real estate transactions — another step in what we call “The Hunt for Personal Information."     Our recent Alert  The Hunt for Personal Information  explores the growing tension between

     As artificial intelligence (AI) regulation accelerates, an old federalism question is resurfacing: can the federal government preempt state AI laws absent congressional authorization?  The Trump Administration has signaled a deregulatory, hands-off approach to AI, while threatening to preempt

  Uncertainty appears to be the hallmark of today’s U.S. economy. While Covid is now (hopefully) behind us, rapidly changing Tariffs, supply chain disruptions from the trade war with China, inflation, high interest rates (albeit declining), and a government shutdown with

  This alert  BWG-Sanctions-Update-9-17-25-Final summarizes our latest discussion at the continuing BWG Global teleconferences on Cross-Border payments (September 12, 2025). See https://bwgglobal.com/. For our prior discussions on this topic, please see  https://wstelecomlaw.com/2025/07/u-s-sanctions-on-russia-anticipating-the-winds-of-war/. For details about these sanctions and their implications for

In a landmark decision, Consumers’ Research t al. v. Federal Communications Commission, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals  had found that the FCC’s assessment and collection of Universal Service Fund (USF) fees constituted an unconstitutional “tax,” thereby calling into question

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This alert (see attached Foreign Investment 5-19-25 PDF) accompanied the presentation delivered by Walt Sapronov of our Firm on May 11, 2025, at the Center for International Legal Studies (CILS) Conference, Vienna, Austria (see attached European Investment 5-8-25 PDF).  The

As in prior election years, we have published a special alert on the impact of federal elections on U.S. telecommunications and broadband policies.  Our alert on this impact following the 2024 elections and new Republican control of the White House

Important Updates: On December 3, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted a nationwide preliminary injunction against the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and stayed the CTA’s upcoming January 1, 2025 reporting deadline.