Corporate Governance
So-called ESG initiatives are good PR for the company and good for the world, most would agree. They can also reduce risk, so much so […]
A legal bulletin published last month by the SEC will make it easier to file shareholder resolutions and return more influence to investors, according to […]
A recent study looks at how, in today’s legal environment, a board’s failure to adequately address climate change-related issues could lead to litigation and liability. […]
The recent dismissal of two shareholder lawsuits alleging failure to promote board diversity continues an increasingly unmistakable trend, writes D&O expert Kevin M. LaCroix in […]
A decision from the Southern District of Florida cuts a distinction between a privileged communication from a GC to a CEO and “facts” that were […]
A report from New York state’s Office of the Attorney General details massive fraud during the comment period preceding repeal of net neutrality rules in […]
Two recent securities class actions related to the coronavirus are likely a harbinger of what’s to come even if there proves to be a rapid […]
A Facebook institutional shareholder (a state public employee retirement fund) did not like a $5 billion settlement the company negotiated with the Federal Trade Commission. […]
This is the fortieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that “forever redefined the corporate attorney–client privilege,” writes Todd Presnell in his Presnell on Privileges […]
Events like environmental disasters, #MeToo reckonings, cybersecurity breaches and even COVID outbreaks, which might predictably draw plaintiff injury lawsuits, are increasingly becoming the basis of […]
