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Corporate Counsel

Key Board and Governance Trends: 2020 Proxy Season and Beyond

Companies will face more scrutiny than ever in 2020, and general counsel must help executives and directors understand changing expectations of firm behavior.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Balancing the Equation Between Technology and Effective Legal Project Management

In this new article series, we explore where the balance point between technology selection/use and an effective legal project management approach exists to solve critical business use case challenges.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

When Is the Social Good an Antitrust Bad?

There has been an influx of CSR collaborations among competitors—some initiated by governments and NGOs, and others established by industry participants themselves. In each case, generally, the goal is to do good and promote various CSR goals ranging from environmental, health and safety, and labor. That said, an effort to be socially responsible can still run afoul of the antitrust laws.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Wells Fargo Names Acting General Counsel, Continues Search for Permanent One

Wells Fargo & Co. has named Douglas Edwards as acting general counsel while it searches for a permanent legal chief who will be acceptable to federal regulators. Edwards is a longtime veteran of the scandal-ridden bank.
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Chancery Reaffirms Fiduciary Exception to Attorney-Client Privilege

In a recent case in the Delaware Court of Chancery involving a suit between the trustee of a trust and the trust's beneficiaries, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster had to decide whether the beneficiaries could get access to documents that the trustee claimed were protected from disclosure by the attorney-client privilege.
6 minute read

International Edition

Dixons Carphone Adds Four New Firms To Bumper Legal Panel

The firm's new panel includes 14 firms and will run for four years.
2 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Corporate Directors Overlook Legal Departments When Prepping for Board Meetings

"That should be a little bit of a wake-up call for legal teams, that they're not the first group that comes to mind for directors, which I'm sure is not comforting news for the legal team," said Dottie Schindlinger, executive director of Diligent Institute.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Regulation A and Regulation Crowdfunding—What's Best for Startups

No matter where a business is in its life cycle, however, there are fairly new and unique ways to raise capital.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Reputation and the Nonprofit Director: Fiduciary Challenge in the 24-Hour News Era

In the current moment of high-publicity "tainted" donations, it is increasingly difficult for directors to balance attracting the financial support required to operate, on the one hand, with safeguarding the nonprofit's valuable reputation, on the other.
9 minute read

Corporate Counsel

2020, The Year Legal Operations Finally Flourish

Now, thanks to technological advancement and consistent incubation, we are hitting that critical mass where legal ops is recognized as an important part of the legal department across industries, company size and geography.
6 minute read

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