Corporate Governance

Compliance Training Can’t Skip C-Suite

Senior executives and board members are often overlooked when it comes to corporate compliance training, but that is a potentially […]

Non-Practicing Company Lawyers In Growing Ethical Gap

Professional regulations should be established for lawyers with non-legal positions, University of North Carolina law professor Dana Remus suggests in […]

Board Members Could Be Vulnerable To FCPA Prosecutions

Under increasingly targeted investigations by the Justice Department and the SEC, it’s only a matter of time before the field […]

GC Have Much To Gain, Fear, From Big Data

Big data is helping general counsel predict legal costs, case outcomes, and streamline compliance. However it is also causing corporate […]

GCs Finding Savings, Value In Small Law Firms

When it comes to outside legal work, general counsel have begun putting value over pedigree, bypassing high-profile firms for smaller […]

Women Far Less Likely To Commit Corporate Fraud

Only nine percent of those who commit major corporate fraud are women, according to a new study published in the […]

Audit Committee Responsibilities And The Risk Of Restatement

The exercise of accounting judgment can lead to a restatement – an admission that a company’s past financial statements were […]

Oracle GC Defends Her CEO’s Pay

In a letter to a shareholder investment firm, the general counsel of Oracle Corporation defended the compensation package of the […]

$14 Million Award Breathes New Life Into SEC Whistleblower Program

This week the SEC announced an unprecedented $14 million whistleblower award, originating from an office that was created under Dodd-Frank. […]

Keep GC Out Of Compliance

General counsel should be kept separate from corporate compliance, as both functions are increasingly complex and competing interests frequently arise, […]