Your company has a pretty good risk management department. They’re good at bubbling up all sorts of issues to consider. They’re providing you with detailed analysis behind each of the…

Following up on my blog about the “leaving the board” roadmap, if you counsel directors as I have for many years, you’re familiar with that frantic call from a…

Not too many choices exist in the technical world of Form 4 reporting. But there is a choice to be made for reporting grants of stock-settled, time-based restricted stock units…

Director behavior is at the essence of a director’s fiduciary duties. This is what Delaware courts love to write about in their opinions. That’s easy for all the lawyers in…

Yes, my titles tend to be a tad dramatic (see my prior “materiality” blog). That’s the way to draw eyeballs, right? But in this case, it is a hard…

Back when I worked in-house not that long ago, I wrote this piece with Sarah Kalgaard, General Counsel of Vital Images, for the Association of Corporate Counsel about the top…

This blog follows up on my blog about where to start when making a climate pledge and how aspirational it should be. When it comes to the actual announcement itself…

A few months ago, I blogged about four things to do now that the NYSE has changed its related party transaction rule. I had mentioned that parts of the rule…

A few weeks ago, I blogged about 5 things you should know about Nasdaq’s new board diversity disclosure requirement. There were a number of interpretive questions that immediately came to…

In a word, probably not. Okay, that’s two words. I find that some in-house lawyers will look at the SEC Staff comment letters sent to their peer companies to get…

So many companies have already announced a climate pledge that this topic has sort of been beaten to death. But some of the issues to consider bear repeating for those…

Following up on my latest blog about new lines of business, no one hits a home run every time. Not even the best of companies. Sometimes a line of business…