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The First US Law School Course on Compliance: Its Origins and Evolution

This essay traces the origin and development of the first dedicated law school course on corporate compliance and ethics programs in the United States. Responding to legal and practice developments over the last two decades,...more

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PCAOB Overreach Proposal to Expand Secondary Liability Exposes Potentially Fatal Lack

This is the first in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year. We will be posting further installments in the series throughout the next several...more

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2021 Corporate Governance Practices and Trends

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Fenwick has surveyed the corporate governance practices of the companies included in the Standard & Poor’s 100 Index (S&P 100) and the technology and life sciences companies included in the Fenwick – Bloomberg Law Silicon...more

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Ten Years Go By Without The DOJ Receiving Even One Of These Notices

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In wake of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the California legislature saw fit to add Section 2207 to the California Corporations Code.  The statute threatens corporations with a $1 million civil penalty if they have actual knowledge...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

Preliminary Planning for the 2021 Proxy Season

Our preliminary list of important planning considerations for the 2021 proxy season is set forth below. Directors’ and Officers’ Questionnaires; Committee Charters - We have identified only a few possible changes to...more

Perkins Coie

2019 Corporate Governance Hot Topics

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The following update highlights recent corporate governance hot topics and trends for directors of public companies. Board Oversight of Mission-Critical Risks - In June 2019, the Delaware Supreme Court allowed a Caremark...more

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Changes in the Balance of Power: The Board Versus CEO

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There is no doubt that corporate boards operate under greater scrutiny. The trend is clearly to hold boards and individual members accountable. But this is not the result of government prosecution; rather, this trend reflects...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Director and Executive Compensation Remains a Hot Topic for 2016

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A series of recent Delaware Chancery Court and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) decisions—coupled with anticipated SEC action to finalize the three remaining Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Getting the Measure of EGC Corporate Governance Practices: A survey and related resources - February 2016

Corporate governance has changed dramatically since passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The level of shareholder engagement and institutional...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Board of Directors and FCPA Oversight – An Internal Control Under SOX, Part II

In Part I of this two-part post regarding a Board of Director’s Role in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) oversight from the internal controls perspective, I reviewed how a Board might have independent liability for its...more

Troutman Pepper

Counsel to the Company: A Framework for Corporate Governance

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As a threshold matter, counsel must identify, and remain clear as to, the identity of its client, which may be the company or a subsidiary, the Board or Board committee, or one or more executives. The identity of the client...more

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Five Steps To Improve Corporate Governance

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It has been ten years since Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted. No one can argue that Sarbanes-Oxley eliminated the problem of corporate malfeasance....more

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