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Can Feds Force Companies to Disclose Political Spending?  [Video]

Jan. 31 (Bloomberg Law) -- The SEC is considering a proposal by Robert Jackson, associate professor at Columbia Law School, that public companies be required to disclose their political spending. SEC staff members have said...more

Federal Court Rejects Shareholder “Say-on-Pay” Suit

The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on March 7, 2012 dismissed a derivative suit brought by shareholders of Intersil Corporation for breach of fiduciary duty premised on shareholders’ disapproval...more

The Legacy Of The Commissioner Who Was Indicted

In an earlier post, I wrote about Edwin M. (“Mike”) Daugherty who served as California’s Commissioner of Corporations from 1922 until 1926 and then from 1931 to 1954. He was succeeded by interim Commissioner Clifford J....more

A Friday Video And Former Board Member Sues CalPERS

19th Annual NASPP Conference in San Francisco. We all have a sense of how voting should work. Voting, however, is a very complicated subject and one in which errors are frequently made. Companies may incorrectly describe...more