Following up on this blog about the challenges of being in-house and handling your emotional intelligence, here’s another excerpt from this piece that I wrote with Sarah Kalgaard, General Counsel of Vital Images, for the Association of Corporate Counsel – this excerpt is our #1 point, “Building Relationships”:
With your supervisor: Depending on the law…
Recently, we started a new feature of this blog – where our in-house readers share tips, anecdotes and thoughts about things that come up in their daily practice. Last week, we blogged about the practice of dealing with shareholder proposals. We will be blogging Part 2 on that topic soon [feel free to ping me…
In this blog, I noted that documenting your decision is key. That the memo documenting the decision is sometimes called a “SAB 99” memo, based on the SEC accounting guidance in that Staff Accounting Bulletin. Think disclosure controls.
So that begs the question? If a piece of SEC Staff accounting guidance is implicated, does…
Recently, we started a new feature of this blog – where our in-house readers share tips, anecdotes and thoughts about things that come up in their daily practice. The last pair of blogs focused on Section 16 compliance reminders.
This particular batch of thoughts is about the practice of dealing with shareholder proposals [we will…
Nasdaq’s new board diversity rules approved by the SEC back in August drew a significant number of comments when initially proposed. The new rules seek to encourage listed companies to diversify their boards by establishing rules for disclosure of their current board diversity (Rule 5606) and setting a diversity objective for boards to meet, with…
Following up on my blog about a director finding out about impropriety at the company, perhaps the most painful scenario for a director who wants to do the right thing is one in which they find themselves very lonely. On an island. No one else on the board shares their views. Or at least, they’re…
Last week, we started a new feature of this blog – where our in-house readers share tips, anecdotes and thoughts about things that come up in their daily practice.
We received so much feedback on that first blog about the practice of sending compliance reminders to insiders about their Section 16 obligations that we now…
“Ms. In-House Lawyer, can you tell me whether this is material?” If I hear that one more time (*shakes fist*). [This is one more in a series of blogs about “materiality” – here’s the last one.]
Determining whether something is “material” seems to dominate every question in every form. It shows up in…
A few weeks ago, my colleague Allison Handy blogged about Nasdaq’s new board diversity disclosure requirements, now approved by the SEC. The new rules are discussed in more depth in our upcoming article in the “Corporate Governance Advisor”: “Nasdaq’s New Board Diversity Rules—a Booster Rocket for Increased Board Diversity.”
Welcome to a new feature of this blog – where our in-house readers share tips, anecdotes and thoughts about things that come up in their daily practice. Feel free to ping me and join the group that shares their thoughts – they will be posted anonymously or with attribution, whichever you desire.
This particular batch…
