HR.com Forms Legal and Compliance 2026 Advisory Board to Address Evolving Regulatory Landscape
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HR.com's advisory board provides HR professionals with expert insights to navigate fast-changing compliance risks, offering a strategic advantage in maintaining legal workplace standards.
The HR Research Institute formed an advisory board of legal experts to guide research on emerging compliance issues like AI ethics and pay equity audits.
This initiative helps build ethical, resilient workplaces by providing HR leaders with trusted expertise to anticipate change and reduce compliance risks.
Top legal minds from firms like Dykema and Jackson Lewis will guide HR.com's 2026 research on compliance trends including federal-state law fragmentation.
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The HR Research Institute has announced the formation of the State of Legal and Compliance 2026 Advisory Board, a panel of workplace, employment law, and compliance experts who will guide an upcoming research study and virtual event. This initiative is designed to help human resources professionals manage one of the most rapidly changing and high-risk areas in modern business: legal and compliance management.
The compliance environment is shifting faster than most organizations can track, with challenges ranging from artificial intelligence ethics to pay equity audits and new fragmentation between federal and state laws. The newly assembled advisory board will provide strategic direction on the most urgent and emerging issues employers will face in 2026. The board includes industry thought leaders such as Robert Boonin, Partner & Attorney at Dykema; Bryn Goodman, Partner at Jackson Lewis; Emily Langdon, Attorney at Fraser Stryker PC, LLO; Lara Makinen, Senior Director of HR Compliance Initiatives at Valet Living; Patrick McNeil, Ph.D., Principal Business Consultant at Affirmity Workforce Compliance; Asia Meador, General Counsel & SVP of Compliance and Human Resources at Meritan; and Holly Sutton, Partner at Farella Braun + Martel.
Debbie McGrath, CEO of HR.com, stated that as regulations accelerate, HR leaders require clarity and trusted expertise. This advisory board brings together top legal and compliance minds to help HR anticipate change, reduce risk, and build ethical, resilient workplaces for the future. The HR Research Institute publishes annual "State of the Industry" reports on various HR topics, including its previous report, HR.com’s State of Legal Compliance and Employment Law 2025. This and other free research reports and infographics are available for download at https://hr.com/researchinstitute.
The HR Research Institute, powered by HR.com, identifies key trends and best practices to assist over 2 million HR professionals and their organizations in making strategic decisions with informed research findings. It has published hundreds of reports across a wide array of HR topics. HR.com’s free membership provides access to over 300 exclusive primary research, state-of-the-industry reports, and infographics, which are developed with input from advisory boards of thought leaders and industry experts. Additional information can be found at https://hr.com/hrresearchinstitute.
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