CFPB Addresses Potential Compliance Gaps in Credit Card Rewards Programs

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has recently released a circular to law enforcement

Maryland Minimum Interest Rate for Escrow and Special Purpose Accounts

Maryland law requires depository institutions doing business in Maryland that make first lien residential real property loans and maintain escrow accounts for those loans to pay a minimum rate of i

Maryland Legal Alert - January 2025

In This IssueMaryland Minimum Interest Rate for Escrow and Special Purpose Accounts

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Bobbie is Counsel in our Energy and Environmental practice group. 

Don't Make Teams go Ravin' Mad by Using Their Branding

Your football team has made the playoffs yet again (Go Ravens!).

Corporate Transparency Act Injunction: Fifth Circuit Vacates Stay – BOI Reporting Back on Hold

On December 26, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed its prior decision of December 23 and allowed the injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparenc

Did You Know? Winter 2024

No Surprises Act: Did you know that Aetna Inc.

Minority Care Programs

The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (DHHS-OCR) has opened an investigation regarding Cleveland Clinic’s Minority Stroke Program and Minority Men’s Health Center (the

Maryland 340B Law Survives First Judicial Test

Maryland has become one of the most recent battleground states for litigation regarding the federal 340B drug program initiated by pharmaceutical companies looking to curb the discounts they argue

Corporate Transparency Act Injunction: Fifth Circuit Issues Stay; FinCEN Grants Filing Extension

Update: As of December 26, 2024, the requirement under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) for companies to file Beneficial Ownership Information Reports has been temporarily paused.