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Inside Track: How 2 Big Financial Stories—an Antitrust Case and a Megamerger—Became Intertwined

At issue is whether Discover's underperforming digital payments network would have the muscle to challenge Visa's dominance of the payments industry if regulators OK its merger with Capital One.
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Inside Track: Lawyers for Big Tech Give Harris Benefit of Doubt, Despite Pummeling They Took Under Biden

Amazon General Counsel David Zapolsky has been deeply critical of antitrust enforcement during the Biden administration. Nonetheless, he's so keen on Kamala Harris that he recently co-hosted a high-dollar fundraiser for her.
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Inside Track: Late-Career In-House Leaders Offer Words to Live by

"The moment a client or business leader senses that you can be told to come up with a desired answer, regardless of whether or not you believe it to be true, is the minute they stop respecting you and taking your advice," said Aaron Alter, who stepped down as legal chief of Hawaiian Airlines last month.
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Inside Track: ESG Movement Hits 'Teenage Years,' Testing Companies' Resolve

"We've ended up with the worst of both worlds," New York University professor Alison Taylor told IR Magazine recently. "Companies treating this as PR and attention directed away from the political process by implying that these companies are solving problems they're not solving."
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Inside Track: When the Prior GC Sticks Around, Is That a Help or Hindrance?

"Every move you make can be seen as a slight of your predecessor," said Rob Chesnut, a former Airbnb general counsel.
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Inside Track: Elon Musk's Latest Tesla GC Showing Staying Power in Tricky Role

Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the Delaware Court of Chancery wrote in January that Tesla CEO Elon Musk "wields unusually expansive managerial authority, equaling or even exceeding the imperial CEOs of the 1960s."
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Inside Track: Most Companies Try to Keep Shareholder Ire in Check. Exxon Is Blazing a Different Trail

"How can shareholders effectively hold a giant like Exxon accountable while facing legal retribution?" said Georgia Stewart, CEO of Tumelo, an investor-engagement platform.
6 minute read

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Inside Track: Career Path for Aspiring GCs Becoming More Daunting

"Corporate America is very risk-averse," which leads companies to hire current GCs for their GC openings over internal candidates ripe with potential, management consultant Jason Winmill said.
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Inside Track: Once-Overlooked Labor Watchdog Has Put Employers in Tizzy

The NLRB "has been pursuing an agenda to reshape U.S. labor law and overturn decades of well-established NLRB precedent," Littler Mendelson shareholder Michael Lotito said.
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Inside Track: Why Meta Pays $23M in Security Costs for Mark Zuckerberg

"We believe that Mr. Zuckerberg's role puts him in a unique position: he is synonymous with Meta and, as a result, negative sentiment regarding our company is directly associated with, and often transferred to, Mr. Zuckerberg," the company's proxy statement says.
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