The Classification of Gasoline & Gasoline Fumes as a Carcinogen: Considerations for Corporate Executives & Attorneys
Understanding the DOJ's Recent Corporate Enforcement Policy Changes
The Trend of Threatening Physicians for Personal Gain
Hiring Smarter: Best Practices for Interviews: What's the Tea in L&E?
Workplace ICE Raids Are Surging—Here’s How Employers Can Prepare - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Crafting Effective Flexible Leave Policies for Employers
Episode 373 -- Christian Focacci on Current Developments in AI and Risk Management
Rethinking Records Retention
Compliance Tip of the Day: Internal Controls for GTE
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 48: Opportunities & Risks with Artificial Intelligence in HR with Chingwei Shieh of GE Power
Handling References and Referrals While Safeguarding Your Business
Everything Compliance: Shout Outs and Rants - Episode 155
Daily Compliance News: June 10, 2025, The Ruinous Burdens Edition
Innovation in Compliance: The Critical Importance of Mobile Application Security: Insights from Subho Halder
Daily Compliance News: June 9, 2025, The Repugnant Edition
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels: The Sign of Four – Applying Sherlock Holmes’ Methods to Modern Corporate Compliance
Sunday Book Review: June 8, 2025, The Books on AI Governance Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Internal Controls for Third Parties
Daily Compliance News: June 6, 2025, The Good Punishment Edition
Daily Compliance News: June 5, 2025, The Asset Cap Lifted Edition
Most director resignations are routine affairs, but that was not the case with a recent and very public director resignation. This resignation and others like it may serve as a cautionary tale for any board. In this week’s...more
The spread of misinformation goes beyond public relations and poses a real risk to business operations. Whether it's inaccurate information shared on social media, mischaracterizations in mainstream news or podcasts, or...more
Derivative suits are a topic of discussion that continues to challenge directors, officers, and insurers alike. The issue is particularly fraught for individual directors and officers because Delaware-incorporated companies...more
The latest edition of Davies’ Governance Insights is now available. In this issue, we review the Manti Holdings decision from Delaware. For boards, nominees and nominating shareholders, the decision is a reminder of the...more
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In the brilliant long-form podcast Fall of Civilizations, author Paul Cooper gives listeners a sense of how average citizens living in Tenochtitlan, Angkor Wat, Rome, and Constantinople may have felt as once-mighty empires...more
Delaware case law recognizes that directors and officers owe a duty of oversight, and failure to adequately exercise such duty may result in liability. Such claims — known as “Caremark claims” after the seminal decision in In...more
A recent Delaware Chancery Court decision highlights the liability risks faced by directors and sponsors of special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”) and the importance of robust disclosure in protecting against those...more
Following enforcement actions imposing corporate criminal or civil liability, shareholders often bring derivative actions seeking to hold directors liable for related compliance failures by alleging they breached their...more
On February 26, 2020, Skadden held a webinar titled “Reevaluating the Board Risk Oversight Process: Implications of Marchand and Other Recent Developments.” The panelists were Edward Micheletti, litigation partner and...more
In Marchand v. Barnhill, a unanimous Delaware Supreme Court imposed substantial new procedural expectations on corporate directors to satisfy their fiduciary duty of oversight related to material risk areas and legal...more
The Delaware Supreme Court recently sounded a warning bell for directors, reminding that as part of their duty of loyalty, they “must make a good faith effort to implement an oversight system and then monitor it.” The case...more
In October 2016, the Delaware Court of Chancery rejected a shareholder derivative lawsuit premised on an alleged lack of oversight by the directors of Capital One Financial Corp., Reiter v. Fairbank, C.A. No. 11693-CB, 2016...more