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In This Podcast Episode Cryptocurrency continues to dominate the headlines, from starting the year at a high with major TV ads to questions in recent weeks about the stability of [...]

This will be the last weekly edition of the COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report. We began these weekly enforcement updates on May 8, 2020. Today, some 59 weeks (and a [...]

Weekly COVID-19 Oversight & Enforcement Report June 10, 2021 > Originally published 25 June, 2020 The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject [...]

With President Donald Trump's departure from office and the inauguration of President Joe Biden comes the prospect of major shifts in the relationship between the United States and Mexico. President [...]

A. Congress As part of an ongoing investigation into a 'failed' $35 million contract to provide six million N95 masks to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), House Select Subcommittee [...]

A. Congress On March 15, the SBA Office of the Inspector General published a report identifying $692 million in duplicate PPP loans. This confirmed earlier findings made by the House [...]

A. Congress The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis launched an investigation into One Medical's COVID-19 vaccine-distribution practices. In a letter, Subcommittee Chair James Clyburn (D-SC) highlighted the need [...]

Latin America has been especially hard hit in recent months by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, as described in WilmerHale's recent client alert here. The resulting travel restrictions, physical safety precautions [...]

This is a joint client alert update of WilmerHale and Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza & Enriquez.1 After weeks of concerns expressed by business interests on both sides of the US-Mexico border, [...]

A joint client alert update by WilmerHale and Creel García-Cuéllar Aiza & Enriquez.1 This publication updates our April 8, 2020, client alert regarding the Mexican federal government's response to the [...]

I. Overview of the Updated CISA Guidance On April 17, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), issued the third version [...]

WilmerHale's John Walsh, Sonia Fleury and Rommy Flores contributed to the 'Mexico' chapter in this annual survey of international legal developments and publication of the ABA/Section of International Law. Excerpt: [...]

In 1977, the United States Congress passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ('FCPA'), the first law seeking to govern business conduct of U.S. companies in foreign markets and with foreign [...]

Mourners will be standing 40 or 50 deep along the route which will be taken by the funeral procession for Diana, Princess of Wales. The procession will pass many locations which have significant associations with her, and will revive memories of her wedding to Prince Charles in 1981, the last time such large crowds gathered in the centre of London, England. She cannot be called a saint or an angel, but it is certainly true that she established some sort of private contract with ordinary British people.

There are a number of key ways in which you can improve your position in life in 1997. These include drawing up a life strategy, assessing which activities are important and which are not, becoming more influential at work and improving your memory. It is also worth considering ways of increasing your disposable income, such as moving your bank account, and looking at how to obtain better treatment from your doctor.

Byline: Jason Walsh Same-sex marriage seems like a foregone conclusion in Ireland. A referendum held today will, if passed, make Ireland the first country in the world to approve same-sex [...]

Byline: John Walsh 'You told everybody that I couldn't drive /and you didn't even want me around. / And you knocked my love and you know that's a lie / [...]

Byline: John Walsh Today, Ireland is the first eurozone country to exit the EU-IMF bail-out programme. The national mood is relief, as Ireland has earned widespread plaudits for restructuring its [...]

Byline: JOHN WALSH MULTINATIONALS such as Google and Facebook operating in Ireland have nothing to fear from legislative moves aimed at clamping down on tax avoidance, the country's Minister for [...]

Byline: John Walsh 'Driving down to the coast in a convertible.' Once, that would have made me think of Cary Grant and Grace Kelly roaring along a cypress-lined road on [...]

Byline: John Walsh The American artist Don Bachardy and the British writer Christopher Isherwood were an item for more than 30 years. Despite the gap in their ages - Bachardy [...]

Byline: John Walsh Weddings and funerals are fine; barbecues round at a mate's house are no problem; it's all the occasions in between that cause headaches. I'm talking about what [...]

Byline: John Walsh Like the flowers that bloom in the spring ('Tra la'), they'll start appearing any day now. Classic cars, their owners call them, cosseted in garages over the [...]

Byline: John Walsh 'I know it doesn't come naturally Sister, but you'll have to look in the mirror more often.' The nun in the driving seat turned to her passenger [...]

Byline: John Walsh 'Safety fast'. When applied to motoring this slogan runs close to being an oxymoron - yet it was featured on ads for MG sports cars for more [...]

Byline: John Walsh Everything in the garden is rosy. As far as I'm concerned, it always is in January: dormant, still, in a happy state of suspended animation, like the [...]

Byline: John Walsh 'Going anywhere nice for your holidays?' Why do hairdressers always ask this? Is it written into their contracts or do they learn it during their training? I'm [...]

Byline: John Walsh Weddings and funerals are fine; barbecues round at a mate's house are no problem; it's all the occasions in between that cause headaches. I'm talking about what [...]

Byline: John Walsh 'Driving down to the coast in a convertible.' Once, that would have made me think of Cary Grant and Grace Kelly roaring along a cypress-lined road on [...]

Byline: John Walsh 'Look, it's started snowing.' A simple statement of fact, yet those words always give me a little tingle of excitement. Not a 'Break open the champagne; where [...]

Byline: John Walsh 'You told everybody that I couldn't drive/and you didn't even want me around./And you knocked my love and you know that's a lie/'cause I'm a good man [...]

Byline: John Walsh 'Fit for purpose'. Irritating phrase, isn't it? Perhaps because of its use by politicians to sound as if they're on top of their brief. A contraction of [...]

Byline: John Walsh If there was such a thing as a DIY gene, I didn't got one. Or, at least, it was deeply recessive. In moments of heightened frustration - [...]

Byline: John Walsh Stepping inside, it felt like one of those ultra-exclusive antiques showrooms you find tucked away in South Kensington, Knightsbridge and Mayfair. The décor was restrained, expensive and [...]

Byline: John Walsh You'll be pleased to hear that the great British tradition of eccentricity is alive and well. One of its current manifestations is in a small group of [...]

Byline: Jason Walsh This weekend, about 350 conventioneers descend on Dublin to discuss matters of faith and its place in public life. It's not a meeting of the Catholic Church [...]

Byline: JOHN WALSH With Christmas a week away, you're probably having a little panic. What can you get for the hard-to-please brother-in-law, the teetotal uncle, the favourite neighbour? You want [...]

Byline: JOHN WALSH In the long and spectacular history of odd behaviour at award ceremonies, Grayson Perry's appearance on stage at the 2003 Turner prize may not have been up [...]

Byline: JOHN WALSH Goodness, how history just zips along in Northern Irish politics. A triumphant Ian Paisley says he is keen to meet Mr Blair to explain how much they [...]

Byline: JOHN WALSH So, Dame Judi Dench is reportedly 'distressed' by plans to release on the big screen a BBC TV film in which she appeared minus her clothes in [...]

Byline: JOHN WALSH David Beckham's British publisher, HarperCollins, is understandably over the moon about the news that his book, My Side, has hit the top of the bestseller lists in [...]

Byline: John Walsh The ultimate supergroup has been formed, I see. Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and the evergreen Italian actress Sophia Loren have all been signed up to appear on [...]

Byline: John Walsh Satire Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961) What the world thinks: Amusing anti-war novel set on Italian island in WW2, peopled by wacky M*A*S*H-style GIs. Title refers to [...]

Byline: John Walsh According to Mojo magazine, the key moment in rock'n'roll history was a mid-afternoon in Memphis on 5 July 1954, when Elvis walked in off the street to [...]

Byline: JOHN WALSH Last night, I went to the launch of my friend Louisa Young's Lion Boy, co-written with her daughter, Isabel. The book is an absolute trousers- down smasheroonie [...]

Byline: JOHN WALSH I've been following with fascination the Philip Hensher/Tracey Emin saga - and the former's quest to discover who has been sending him un-asked- for, special-offer ceramic collectibles [...]

Byline: JOHN WALSH Spare a thought for the Gigli family. There they were, living in quiet dignity in Recanati, Italy, minding their own business and basking in the long, sun-dappled [...]

Byline: JOHN WALSH I was shocked to discover that I've been going to book launches for 25 years. A quarter of century of evenings crushed against the wall in once-fashionable [...]

Byline: John Walsh MADONNA MUST be furious to find herself at number seven. Bill Clinton may have to reassess his career after being beaten by Mickey Mouse. And how mortified [...]

Byline: John Walsh Irish myths and legends still inform and energise the works of her modern poets, from Seamus Heaney to Paul Muldoon, and it's vital to have a passing [...]