Editor’s Letter

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Welcome to spring! And to this issue of Trust the Leaders 2.0, the digital magazine of Smith Gambrell Russell.

Part of our role as our clients’ trusted legal advisers is to keep you updated on developments across the legal landscape that may impact your industry and your business. To that end, this issue is dedicated to an array of hot topics in the legal field that we’re monitoring for you.

In the pages that follow, you’ll learn about the following:

• Expected action by the EPA to tackle a group of manmade chemicals, known as

“forever chemicals” because they do not readily degrade in the environment (p. 4).

• How dealmakers should approach the forum selection provisions in their contracts, especially with the growing number of business courts and the continued availability of alternative dispute resolution procedures (p. 10). • Recent state and federal regulation limiting the scope of noncompetition agreements to facilitate worker mobility (p. 16).

• The Web 3.0 iteration of the World Wide

Web, and how it will impact the way we interact, and transact, with one another (p. 20).

• Current initiatives by the National Labor

Relations Board to promotion unionization and address alleged violations of the

National Labor Relations Act (p. 26).

• What prospective investors and board members can learn from the January 2022 conviction of Theranos founder Elizabeth

Holmes on fraud and conspiracy charges (p. 32).

Enjoy the issue!

Dana M. Richens Editor-in-Chief editor@sgrlaw.com