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The automatic response of many companies caught in international human rights controversies is to avoid talking to the media at all cost.

V&E is a proud strategic sponsor of the 13th annual Rice Energy Finance Summit being held at Jones Graduate School of Business on Friday, November 12th.

This article outlines a dozen Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) disclosure errors that companies should stop making today.

On October 15, 2021, the FAR Council published a Federal Register Notice announcing the opening of a public comment period on potential amendments to the Federal Acquisition Regulation to address climate-related financial risks.

On September 22, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued a sample comment letter (the “Comment Letter”) regarding climate change disclosures.

After my previous blog post regarding recent labor enforcement actions taken under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (“USMCA”) impacting U.S. companies with facilities or subsidiaries in Mexico, I received questions regarding employer rights under Mexican labor law.

Estimating, reporting, and mitigating risk concerning environmental justice (“EJ”) has increasingly become a complex undertaking. The EPA defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

In this featured interview, V&E Partner Margaret Peloso, whose practice is built on significant experience in climate change science, talks about how law firms can help clients set their strategies for continued business in a changing environment, especially ahead of forthcoming “ESG” regulations.

V&E attorneys Margaret Peloso and Caitlin Snelson recently discussed sustainable finance with Riverstone’s Meghan Pasricha.

I was tempted to take the easy way out for a Labor Day message and just repeat the one we sent last year. It seemed that little had changed, and the message still applied. But then, I think that doing so would be to ignore all the changes that are happening in our modern workplace and that will likely happen in the coming year.