Retail Privacy
Retailers support strong consumer privacy protections and a clear national framework that ensures responsible data use while maintaining innovation and customer trust.
Focus Area
Retail Legal & Compliance
RILA helps retailers navigate complex legal and regulatory challenges affecting the retail industry. We collaborate with member companies and policymakers to address compliance requirements, regulatory risk, and emerging legal issues impacting retail businesses.
Our Focus
Advancing Retail’s Legal & Compliance Policy Priorities
Key initiatives addressing regulatory, legal, and compliance challenges affecting retailers.
Competition
Retail leaders are working with policymakers to address anticompetitive practices, strengthen market competition, and ensure a fair and innovative marketplace for consumers and businesses.
Organized Retail Crime, Counterfeits & Marketplaces
Retailers support policies that combat organized retail crime, increase transparency in online marketplaces, and stop the sale of stolen and counterfeit goods.
Payments
RILA works with lawmakers and regulators to increase competition in the payments ecosystem, reduce excessive swipe fees, and ensure retailers can route transactions efficiently.
Regulatory Comment Letters
Submitted comments to key regulatory agencies in effort to collaborate on solutions & help shape agency actions impacting our industry.
Retail Product Safety
RILA helps retailers navigate evolving product safety regulations, compliance trends, and policy developments affecting consumer products.
ADVOCATING FOR RETAIL
Legal Affairs & Compliance Team
Meet the legal and regulatory experts supporting RILA members and helping retailers navigate evolving legal, compliance, and regulatory challenges.Get Involved
Legal Affairs & Compliance Committees
RILA’s legal and compliance committees bring together senior retail legal leaders to address regulatory, operational, and compliance challenges facing the industry. Members share insights, benchmark practices, and collaborate on strategies that support effective retail governance.
Chief Legal Officer Committee
Chief legal officers collaborate on regulatory developments, legal strategy, and emerging legal challenges affecting the retail industry.Compliance Council
Chief compliance officers collaborate on regulatory requirements, corporate compliance strategies, and risk management practices affecting retail operations.Consumer Products Committee
Retail product safety, compliance, and regulatory leaders collaborate on product standards, safety regulations, and emerging compliance challenges.Environment & Waste Compliance Committee
Retail compliance professionals collaborate on environmental regulations, waste management practices, and strategies for meeting evolving sustainability requirements.Legal Direct Reports (L2) Committee
Senior attorneys reporting directly to general counsel collaborate on legal operations, regulatory developments, and emerging legal challenges across retail organizations.Legal Operations Committee
Retail legal operations leaders collaborate on improving legal department efficiency, technology adoption, and operational best practices.Real Estate Legal Committee
Retail real estate legal professionals collaborate on leasing, development, and regulatory issues affecting retail property and store expansion.Upcoming Events
RILA Committee and Council Events
Events, calls, and webinars for Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) member committees and councils. Non-members interested in joining can contact our membership team.
Retail Works for All of Us
Our Public Policy Priorities
Supporting Free Markets & Fair Trade
RILA advances policies that promote global trade, fair competition, supply chain resilience, and innovation across the retail industry.
Investing in People
Retailers invest in people through workforce innovation, career development, and policies that expand opportunity for workers while strengthening communities across the country.
Ensuring a Safe, Sustainable Future
Retailers support policies that strengthen product safety, protect consumer privacy, and promote responsible environmental stewardship across the retail industry.
Leading in Communities
RILA advances policies that strengthen communities, support public safety, and promote responsible environmental stewardship while helping retailers contribute to local economic growth.
Our Centers
Strategic initiatives advancing retail leadership
Through the Retail Litigation Center, Retail Compliance Center, and Retail Communities Foundation, RILA advances compliance, legal advocacy, and community impact across the retail industry.
News & Insights
Legal & Compliance Insights
Press Release
Retail Litigation Center Leads Debit Fee Cap Fight in Courts
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RILA Adds USTR Veteran to Government Affairs Team
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RILA Board of Directors Welcomes Five New Members & Names Phil Daniele as Board Chair
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Retail Litigation Center Adds 3 GCs to Board of Directors
Blog Post
Slaughter v. Trump: SCOTUS Implications for Retailers
Press Release
RILA Communities Foundation Announces Board of Directors
