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Delaware Business Court Insider

An Oversight Claim By Any Other Name Is Reviewed Under 'Caremark,' Says GoPro

Plaintiffs are eager to convert every corporate trauma into derivative claims, but they are anything but eager to confront the exacting standards for pleading and proving bad faith oversight under Caremark.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Are US Execs Out of Touch With Rest of World on Corporate Social Purpose?

"When we looked at it by country, there was a pretty big disconnect between how directors inside the U.S. felt versus those in every other part of the world," said Dottie Schindlinger, executive director of the Diligent Institute.
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Seller's Privilege Claims Remain With Seller Unless Buyer Contracts for Waiver or Waiver Right

Who controls the privilege for a seller's pre-sale attorney-client communications in the case of an asset purchase transaction?
7 minute read

International Edition

Africa's Lawyers Offer a View Into the Depth and Scale of Corruption On the Continent

No group of individuals can offer as clear a glimpse of corruption on the continent as its best lawyers, who talk to Law.com International about the corruption they encounter, and what's being done to stamp it out.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Executives: Test Your Preparedness for 2020's Final Challenges

To understand the salient legal and reputational risks, employee expectations and consumer demands that will shape late 2020 and early 2021, leaders in every sector will have to draw lessons from the recent past.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

ESG Disclosures: What Is the Current State of Play?

This article investigates the current state of disclosure requirements as well as how companies are approaching ESG disclosure demands and the opponents to such demands.
7 minute read

Legaltech News

Confluence of Governances: Adapting Information Governance for Corporate Governance

The type of transparency, measurability, and repeatability that comes from a robust IG framework enhances shareholder and stakeholder engagement, appropriate and fulsome disclosures, business resiliency, and risk identification.
9 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Corruption Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Q&A With Greenberg Traurig's Cuneyt Akay, Sandra Gonzalez, Michael Marinelli and Adelaida Vasquez Mihu

During the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting business slowdown, reduced staffs and increased workloads have presented a challenge for compliance departments.
14 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

'Liu v. SEC': Disgorging Clarity for Equitable Remedy

In a recent opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court held the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has the authority under Section 78u(d)(5) to seek disgorgement as an equitable remedy as long as the amount of disgorgement does not exceed a wrongdoer's net profits and is awarded for victims. In the underlying action, the SEC brought a civil case against the petitioners.
7 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Court of Chancery Considers Bundled Assets and Rights of First Refusal

In the context of limited liability companies, a right of first refusal (ROFR) limits the ability of an equityholder to transfer equity to a third party without first offering other existing equityholders a right to match the third party's offer.
7 minute read

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