Innovation in Compliance - Key Board Issues Going Forward with Christina Bresani
Giuliano v. Grenfell-Gardner, C.A. No. 2021-0452-KSJM (Del. Ch. Sept. 2, 2025) - This case dealt with Caremark claims alleging that former directors and officers of a pharmaceutical company failed to oversee regulatory...more
Today, Jenner & Block’s bipartisan Congressional Investigations practice, in partnership with the Project on Government Oversight (POGO), released the 2025 edition of When Congress Comes Calling, the gold-standard handbook...more
Key challenges, concerns, and priorities impacting audit committee agendas. To gain a better understanding of the key challenges, concerns, and priorities impacting audit committee agendas, the KPMG Board Leadership Center...more
The House-passed continuing resolution (CR) failed for the ninth time Wednesday afternoon by a vote of 51-44. No one deviated from their previous votes. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Bill Hagerty...more
The Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry ("PCI") is a key monitoring instrument. It serves to investigate allegations of political misconduct, misbehaviour by political decision-makers and potential legal violations. PCIs pose...more
ISS ESG, the sustainable investment arm of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), recently released methodology updates to its Governance QualityScore. These updates are part of a comprehensive expansion of Governance...more
Learning Objectives: - Learn about Board and executive oversight responsibilities for effective human resources compliance programs, including Board oversight of investigations of misconduct allegations. - Identify...more
Congratulations on successfully trademarking your product or brand! Now it’s crucial to protect that investment through diligent trademark oversight and enforcement. This involves actively monitoring for, and taking...more
El Congreso de la República de Colombia aprobó el pasado 8 de agosto la Ley 2415 de 2024, por medio de la cual se declaró el Río Ranchería como sujeto de derechos, reconociéndole al río los derechos de conservación,...more
Be cautious, be curious, be vigilant, and be brave. Those were the words of the New York State Bar Association’s Task Force on Artificial Intelligence. It is good advice. GenAI is here and lawyers need to understand its...more
Two years after proposing rules on climate change disclosure, the SEC has adopted new rules, predictably by a split 3-2 vote. The adopted rules maintain the core of the original proposals, requiring that both domestic...more
Following the update to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS” or the “Committee”) Enforcement and Penalty Guidelines, the Committee has continued to signal its intention to more heavily leverage...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG), a top federal watchdog tasked with overseeing Medicare, Medicaid and other HHS programs, recently announced that it will audit the...more
In Segway Inc. v. Hong Cai, 2023 Del. Ch. LEXIS 643 (Del. Ch. Dec. 14, 2023), the Delaware Court of Chancery (Will, V.C.) dismissed a claim for breach of fiduciary duty brought by Segway Inc. (the “Company”) against its...more
The Delaware Court of Chancery recently held that claims for breach of the fiduciary duty of oversight are not easier to plead against corporate officers than against corporate directors. The decision in Segway Inc. v. Cai...more
On November 8, 2023, nearly thirty (30) labor groups including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the United Auto Workers (“Labor Groups”) sent a letter to the Secretary of Transportation and the Acting...more
Editor’s Note: This article covers valuable insights on artificial intelligence’s (AI) evolving role in cybersecurity and incident response shared during an expert panel discussion. As cybersecurity, information governance,...more
The John O. Nix Trust (“Nix”) filed an October 10th Complaint in Miller County, Arkansas, Circuit Court against Bradley Enterprise & Farm, LLC, (“Bradley”) and Drainage Districts No. 4 & 5 (“District”) addressing the...more
Congress May Kick Appropriations Can to December. Like many of us, our elected federal legislators have grown more comfortable with working remotely. That is why this week, even though the U.S. Congress was out on its August...more
Uniformity, or rather the lack thereof, in procedures and practices within U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Centers of Excellence and Expertise (Centers) is evidently harming compliant companies within the trade...more
The SEC’s Cybersecurity Proposals - The SEC has proposed four rules designed to address cybersecurity risk and management, including incident reporting by public companies....more
On June 9, 2023, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) (collectively, the “Agencies”) published final joint guidance on managing...more
In a case of first impression, the Court of Chancery held recently that officers, like directors, owe their companies a duty of oversight, although the scope of that will vary with their responsibilities. Two other Chancery...more
On January 25, 2023, Vice Chancellor Laster of the Court of Chancery issued a significant decision, finding as a matter of first impression that corporate officers owe a duty of oversight akin to the oversight duties owed by...more
The new compliance focus on executive compensation, as announced by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on March 3, 2023, has significant implications for how healthcare organizations address both corporate compliance and...more