Tag: Corporate Governance
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Continuing Legal Education / CLE, Sponsored ContentSecurities Experts Address The Changing Regulatory And Enforcement Landscape
Leading securities practitioners discuss this year’s Institute on Securities Regulation, which includes around 20 panel discussions on the hottest securities regulatory and corporate governance topics. -
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Continuing Legal Education / CLE, Sponsored ContentESG Gains Momentum: What Lawyers Need To Know Now
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Legal OperationsCorporate Information Governance: Whose Job Is It Anyway? (Part II)
Leadership in IG and the handful of things you need to do right. -
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Corporate Information Governance: Whose Job Is It Anyway? (Part I)
Legal operations professionals need to lead the conversation and get stakeholders to the table. -
Due Diligence, Mergers and Acquisitions, Sponsored ContentNot Just The Numbers: Integrity Due Diligence
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Biglaw, Job Searches10 Things To Know About Capital Markets And Corporate Governance Practice
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General Counsel, In-House CounselIn-House Counsel Take On More And More Responsibility, But Is That A Good Thing?
Companies are increasingly moving the general counsel directly into business decision-making and eroding those lines between legal and executive management. -
FinanceOCC Report Highlights Wide Range of Potential Risks
The OCC’s most recent report on current key risks should be read by all banks, regardless of size or regulator, as a road map in preparing for the next examination. -
In-House Counsel, TechnologyTop Five Governance & Compliance Hot Topics For General Counsel
On September 18, 2014, InsideCounsel magazine held a corporate counsel conference to facilitate discussions on current legal issues. In sessions on governance and compliance, industry experts addressed the current top challenges that in-house attorneys face when managing enterprise risk. Cybersecurity is no longer just a “technology” issue. It has become a business and legal issue. Compliance and management personnel must be trained and informed on the impact that cybersecurity risks present to the business. Companies must have a business response, not just a technical response, prepared for when something goes wrong. The question is not “whether” a cybersecurity issue will arise, but when. -
Biglaw, Books, Facebook, Federalist Society, General Counsel, Hedge Funds / Private Equity, In-House Counsel, Law Professors, Morning Docket, Murder, Musical Chairs, Partner Issues, Politics, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Tax Law, Technology
Morning Docket: 05.13.13
* Given the name and origins of the Tea Party movement, it actually makes perfect sense that their groups got grief from the IRS. [Washington Post]
* Wachtell Lipton weighs in against the practice of shareholder activists offering special compensation to director nominees. [Dealbook / New York Times]
* A law professor, Joshua Silverstein, argues that schools should embrace grade inflation. (But haven’t most of them done this already?) [WSJ Law Blog]
* Facebook shareholders might not “like” this news, but Ted Ullyot is stepping down as general counsel after almost five years. We’ll have more on this later. [National Law Journal]
* The Brooklyn DA’s office is reopening 50 murder cases that were worked on by retired detective Louis Scarcella (who looks oh-so-savory in the NYT’s photo of him). [New York Times]
* In news that should shock no one, Nicholas Speath’s dubious discrimination case against Georgetown Law has been dismissed. [The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times]
* Not long after leaving Cravath for Kirkland, Sarkis Jebejian is putting together billion-dollar deals for private-equity clients. [Am Law Daily]
* Professor Jeffrey Rosen reviews an interesting new book, The Federalist Society (affiliate link), authored by Michael Avery and Danielle McLaughlin. [New York Times]
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In-House CounselInside Straight: What's The Difference Between A Lawyer And A Doctor?
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Leaving Your In-House Role: You Don’t Need A Portable “Book” To Be Successful
In-house legal roles have traditionally offered more accommodating schedules and greater opportunities to gain valuable business experience. Now though, the calculus may be changing. With…
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Enron, Law Professors, Music, Rap, Sarbanes-Oxley / Sarbox / SOX
Because Sometimes You Just Need to Rap About the Law
It’s the end of October, and you know what that means: law school finals are lurking. As law students begin to hunker down and make sweet, sweet love to their outlines and flashcards, others are busy thinking up more clever ways to study the same materials. Visual learners think that drawing pictures will help them […] -
Bad Ideas, Document Review, Technology, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Many Corporate Boards Are Pretty Much Waiting to Get Hacked, Report Says
At this point, the lengths companies go to in order to protect data, keep it secure, and prepare for e-discovery is old news. Data breaches — and the news coverage that usually follows — have frightened many companies into at least attempting to ratchet up data security policies. Likewise with retention practices. There have been […]
