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Corporate Counsel

Amazon Turns Around Declining Shareholder Support for Exec Pay

The tech giant launched a shareholder-outreach effort last year after support for its executive compensation plunged to 56%, down from 97% in 2019. That push appears to have won over some investors.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Compensation Systems as an Incentive to Avoid Corruption

The Department of Justice is implementing new efforts to tie employees' compensation to compliance to confront corporate corruption with a clear focus: no company or person is above the law.
4 minute read

Corporate Counsel

General Counsel Are Becoming More Attractive Candidates for Board Seats

"Start shifting your thinking and your perception about yourself not just as a lawyer but as an executive with much to bring," said former Uber general counsel Salle Yoo.
6 minute read

Corporate Counsel

SEC Keeps Delaying Rollout of Controversial Climate Disclosure Rules

"Given the legal and political challenges, along with the need to craft a balanced set of rules—one that would be likely to survive a court challenge—it's hardly surprising that the process is taking longer than anticipated," according to Cydney Posner, a Cooley special counsel.
4 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Corporate Directors and Designating Stockholders Are Default Joint Clients of the Company When It Comes to Discovery of Privileged Info

Corporate boards and investors alike will benefit from an understanding of the principles articulated in this ruling, as well as from careful consideration of the steps that can be taken to alter the joint client rule or to guard against a privilege waiver resulting from the production and use of privileged information in litigation.
6 minute read

International Edition

Adapting to a Changing World: Key Trends in Commercial Litigation

New issues for litigators to grapple with including ESG and competition related-issues, a burgeoning litigation funding market and disputes related to crypto assets mean the London legal landscape remains an busy forum for resolution.
4 minute read

International Edition

A&O Shearman Needs 75% Partnership Approval to Get Merger Done

The firms' leaders insist they are confident of getting the required partner support at a vote to take place this summer.
2 minute read

National Law Journal

'We're Not Going to Pay for Our Own Destruction': Republican State AGs Push Against ESG

More than 20 attorneys general and some state legislatures are joining forces against ESG using antitrust conspiracy theories to cement their cause—but can they win?
4 minute read

International Edition

A&O and Shearman to Adopt Modified Lockstep Model as Part of Merger

The proposed merger would entail both firms agreeing to a compensation model that is different to what they have operated with in the past.
2 minute read

Legaltech News

CLOC 2023 Takeaways: Generative AI, Job Generation and the Future of CLM

At CLOC 2023 in Las Vegas, conversations and plans around generative AI and its future in corporate legal took center stage.
5 minute read

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