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Inside Track: Does Your GC Make Your Job Harder or Easier?

"A lot of times what your colleagues are looking for in a leader is support and guidance and the ability to marshal resources when they are needed," said Kermitt Brooks, chief legal officer of The Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America.
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Inside Track: Activist Investors Poised to Wreak More Havoc, Despite Disney Defeat

"Armed with extensive financial analysis and a deep understanding of the industries they target, activists are increasingly likely to make the case that breaking up or selling off certain divisions or subsidiaries would create more value for shareholders," Vinson & Elkins told clients.
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Inside Track: Boeing CLO's Grip on Job Seems More Tenuous by the Day

"Brett Gerry is an impressive man, with a gold plated resume. He is going to need it. He has the toughest repair job in the entire legal industry right now," legal department consultant Jason Winmill said.
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Inside Track: Why Whirlpool's Decision to 'Re-Scope' CLO Post Doesn't Wash

Chief Legal Officer Ava Harter is leaving Whirlpool, and receiving $2.9 million in severance, in the wake of the company's decision to make her job a non-executive position.
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Inside Track: FTC Exasperating Merger Partners With Never-Ending Probes

"The regulatory delays can seem completely arbitrary and byzantine at times," Yale School of Management's Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Steven Tian said in a recent commentary.
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Inside Track: Is 'Trusted Business Adviser' Trend Petering Out?

"If I'm going to be an obstruction, if I'm going to make your life more complicated, you are going to avoid me," Burford Capital General Counsel Mark Klein said.
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Inside Track: Does Your Marketing Use the Word 'Free' Too Freely?

"Fine print, fleeting superscripts, or other inconspicuous 'disclosures' don't really 'disclose' anything." FTC senior attorney Lesley Fair wrote on the agency's blog.
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Inside Track: Judge's Musk Pay Ruling Will Put In-House Legal Teams to Work

Boards of directors will need to take a closer look at which directors are truly independent and ensure they negotiate pay packages, not just acquiesce.
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Inside Track: Surprise Exxon Mobil Suit Kicks Off Contentious Shareholder-Proposal Season

The oil giant accused two activist investors of employing a "Goldilocks Trojan Horse strategy" aimed at undermining its business.
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Inside Track: Should We Put the Terms 'ESG' and 'DEI' to Rest, or Is That a Cop-Out?

DEI consultant Richard Orbe-Austin said "diversity, equity and inclusion" has started to "wither and lose favor across many industries"—a decline he blames on executives' failure to fully commit to the cause, not the phrase itself.
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