Corporate Governance

Pandemic May Be Waning, But Securities Lawsuits Keep Coming

May 5, 2021

Two recent securities class actions related to the coronavirus are likely a harbinger of what’s to come even if there […]

Report: Companies Failing To Report Cyber Risk To Shareholders

March 9, 2021

Many companies are not adequately reporting cybersecurity risk in their SEC filings, according to a recent report. Instead they are […]

Law Firms Half A World Apart Come To Same Conclusion: Increasing Risk Of Climate Change Litigation

March 5, 2021

Recent posts from major law firms in the U.S., the UK and New Zealand issue similar warnings: Climate change litigation […]

Privilege Invoked: Shareholders Won’t See Facebook Board Communications

February 26, 2021

A Facebook institutional shareholder (a state public employee retirement fund) did not like a $5 billion settlement the company negotiated […]

The Decision That Has Shaped Privilege Law For 40 Years

January 14, 2021

This is the fortieth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that “forever redefined the corporate attorney–client privilege,” writes Todd Presnell […]

The Rise Of “Event-Driven” Securities Class Actions

December 30, 2020

Events like environmental disasters, #MeToo reckonings, cybersecurity breaches and even COVID outbreaks, which might predictably draw plaintiff injury lawsuits, are […]

Scalia’s Trinity

December 28, 2020

In his review of a recent anthology of writings by the late Justice Antonin Scalia, Harvard Law professor and Bloomberg […]

SEC Fines Company For Understating Covid Hit

December 17, 2020

The SEC has levied a $125,000 penalty against Cheesecake Factory Inc. for understating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on […]

Executive Nostalgia For “Two Cans And A String,” Plain Talk Instead of PowerPoint

December 2, 2020

A panel of corporate secretaries and counsel expressed a growing sense of “videoconferencing ennui” and “zoom fatigue,” says an article […]

No Privilege For Lawyer Doubling As HR Chief

November 6, 2020

An in-house attorney moved through company ranks to become Director of Human Resources. However, she continued to provide legal advice […]

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