By: Katie Conklin, Christopher Tillery, and John Vering
On February 5, 2025, we published a Client Alert regarding “What Clients Should Know About President Trump’s Anti-Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Affirmative Action Executive Order and Its Potential Effects on Government Contractors, Grant Recipients, Nonprofits, and Private Sector Employers,” which can be found here.
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By: John Fuchs, Rachel Sterbenz, Tate Thompson, and Nida Rais
The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) is yet again making headlines. As we previously reported, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) recently extended the CTA reporting deadline to March 21, 2025, for most reporting companies. However, since then, FinCEN announced they will not penalize individuals or entities for not filing a beneficial ownership information report (“BOIR”) by the March 21st deadline and indicated they will be proposing changes to the CTA reporting rule to reduce the “regulatory burden on businesses.”
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By: Tate Thompson and Colby Stone
The Department of Education (the “Department”) has rescinded Name, Image, and Likeness (“NIL”) guidance issued in the final days of the Biden administration that interpreted Title IX to require proportional NIL payments among men’s and women’s collegiate sports. The Department’s rescission came less than a month after the Biden administration issued its Title IX guidance.
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By: Christopher Tillery, Mirjana Gacanich, and Colby Stone
On January 21, 2025, President Trump signed a wide-ranging Executive Order entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Order”) that seeks to eliminate “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (“DEI”) and affirmative action programming and preferences in both the federal government and private sector. In doing so, the Order impacts not only government agencies and their polices, but also revokes multiple executive orders issued by prior administrations directly applicable to federal contractors and entities receiving federal grants, such as nonprofit organizations.
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Seigfreid Bingham attorney Lori Beam was recently appointed to the Board of Directors at Unicorn Theatre, a nonprofit theatre in Kansas City, Missouri.
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By: Cody Weyhofen & John Vering
In April 2024, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a Final Rule that significantly raised the minimum salary thresholds for certain overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). However, a Texas federal court recently invalidated the Final Rule nationwide, restoring the minimum salary thresholds to pre-2024 levels.
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Seigfreid Bingham attorney Ellen Goldman was included on the Missouri Lawyers Media (MLM) Environmental and Energy Law POWER List for 2023.
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By: Shannon Johnson
Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor (the “DOL”) announced a new rule, which will go into effect on March 11, 2024, establishing a six-factor analysis that businesses should use in order to properly classify independent contractors vs. employees. To businesses with past experience utilizing contractors, this “new” rule will not appear new at all – rather, it rejects a more recent rule published in 2021 that made it easier for businesses to classify their workers as independent contractors, and largely reinstates the long-standing “economic realities test” that was developed through Court precedent over the course of decades.
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