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Join Ropes & Gray’s asset management partners, Eve Ellis and Joel Wattenbarger, as they delve into key regulatory issues impacting clients with interests in both the United States and Europe. On this podcast, they explore pertinent topics and developments for private fund managers, such as new rules, firm culture, valuation practices, and the evolving landscape of ESG factors.

Join Ropes & Gray’s life sciences attorneys for a podcast series exploring regulatory, compliance, and enforcement changes emanating from Washington, D.C. and the potential impact on life sciences companies in 2024. In this fourth and final episode, attorneys Greg Levine, Sarah Blankstein, and Beth Weinman discuss key areas to watch related to FDA regulation of digital health tools in 2024. These include digital health technologies used in product development, artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled medical devices, clinical decision support software, and medical device cybersecurity.

On this episode of the R&G Tech Studio podcast, asset management partner Melissa Bender engages in a thought-provoking conversation with Ropes & Gray’s technology strategy leader Ed Black. They delve into the firm's innovative artificial intelligence (AI) initiative, exploring the profound impact of AI on the legal services industry. Gain insights into the strategic integration of AI in client service and discover the evolving expectations of clients in this dynamic landscape. Tune in as they unravel the transformative intersection of law and technology.

Following the first discussion surrounding the Strategic Plan for Oversight of Managed Care for Medicare and Medicaid and its impact on the first two phases of the managed care life cycle: plan establishment and enrollment and associated enforcement and regulatory actions, Ropes & Gray litigation & enforcement partner Andrew O’Connor provides an overview of the final two stages of the managed care life cycle: payment and services to people. He discusses ongoing enforcement trends in light of the Strategic Plan and note a market shift among plans, providers, and vendors, to a more proactive approach to monitoring and oversight.

Tune in to Ropes & Gray's podcast series, The Data Day, brought to you by the firm’s data, privacy & cybersecurity practice. This series focuses on the day-to-day effects that data has on all of our lives as well as other exciting and interesting legal and regulatory developments in the world of data, and features a range of guests, including clients, regulators and colleagues. On this special episode, in honor of World Data Privacy Day coming up on January 28, hosts Fran Faircloth, a partner in Ropes & Gray's Washington, D.C. office, and Edward Machin, counsel in the London office, discuss the most important steps they advise clients to take to protect their business and their data from a cybersecurity attack. 

Join Ropes & Gray’s life sciences attorneys for a podcast series exploring regulatory, compliance, and enforcement changes emanating from Washington, D.C. and the potential impact on life sciences companies in 2024. In this third episode, life sciences regulatory and compliance partners Kellie Combs and Josh Oyster discuss key developments and trends related to medical product advertising and promotion. They cover the latest enforcement trends, revisit FDA’s most recent guidance on the communication of off-label scientific information, and also discuss the implications of a long-awaited First Circuit decision.

Many litigations require discovery not just from the parties to the dispute, but from other entities—and Section 337 investigations at the U.S. International Trade Commission are no different. But there are many unique aspects of third-party subpoena practice at the ITC. On this episode of Ropes & Gray's ITC-focused podcast series, Talkin' Trade, IP litigators Matt Rizzolo, Matt Shapiro, Rachael Bacha, and Brendan McLaughlin discuss the ins and outs of obtaining, enforcing, and responding to third-party subpoenas under the tight timelines of Section 337 proceedings.

It’s a common phrase in the compliance world: “do the right thing.” But what is “the right thing?” Are there risks to moralizing organizational decision-making? And what happens when two seemingly “right” actions are—or may be—in conflict? On this episode of the Better Way? podcast, co-hosts Hui Chen and Zach Coseglia, along with the Lab’s Dr. Caitlin Handron, explore how culture, context, and individual perspectives impact our understanding of what it means to “do the right thing.”

Join Ropes & Gray’s life sciences and health care attorneys for a podcast series exploring regulatory, compliance, and enforcement changes emanating from Washington, D.C. and the potential impact on life sciences companies in 2024. In this second episode, we focus on key issues to watch related to product development, approval, and drug pricing in 2024. These include FDA activities aimed at expediting the development of drugs to treat rare diseases, changes to FDA’s accelerated approval program, clinical trial diversity initiatives, actions to support use of real-world evidence, and developments in drug pricing and market access as CMS works to implement the Medicare Price Negotiation Program and prepares for the Medicare Part D redesign.

In part one of this two-part podcast series, David Kirchner and Elliot Saavedra of the Ropes & Gray benefits consulting group, revisit one of the biggest advances in retirement plan design in recent memory: pooled employer plans (“PEPs”). Based on their findings from a survey they conducted of several of the leading providers in this space and their experiences with this new, innovative approach to employer-sponsored retirement plans, they take a fresh look at PEPs and how the market has evolved over the last three years. Stay tuned for part two, where they will dive deeper into the responsibilities that employers should be mindful of when considering, evaluating and monitoring PEPs, as well as recent regulatory changes impacting PEPs