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Defense Counsel And Corporate Counsel – A Perfect Partnership On Key Policy Issues
Litigation costs continue to soar with the explosive growth of electronically stored information (ESI) attributable, among other things, to the proliferation of smart phones, electronic readers and social and other new media. By significantly increasing the cost of doing business in the U.S.,...
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Strong General Counsel = Strong Companies
In this editorial I bravely soldier into the minefield of advising on stock picking. My advice is that if stock pickers are looking for the best long-term investments, they should select those companies that have the strongest general counsel with the best legal departments that reach out for...
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Strong General Counsel And The New Reality
Federal and state agencies have marshaled every conceivable weapon to ferret out compliance breakdowns and corrupt practices by U.S. corporations, including using qui tam and whistleblowing to incentivize suppliers, customers and employees to report corporate wrongdoing. In the past, general...
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Tom Sager – Agent Of Change And Promoter Of Diversity
Tom joined DuPont Legal in 1976, became associate general counsel in 1994, chief litigation counsel in 1998, vice president and assistant general counsel in 1999 and rose to senior vice president and general counsel in July 2008. This newspaper was launched in September 1993. Among its...
Read MoreTo Achieve Economic And Job Growth First Remove The Regulatory Barriers
We face a depressing reality. Hope for economic recovery recedes as export growth is hindered by the Eurozone crisis and the slowing pace of growth in developing countries. Our divided government is paralyzed - unable to take any effective measures. Rather than offer constructive messages in the...
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Chris Christie: Blazing The Trail To A National Resurgence In Job Growth
This issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel comes at a time when the future of this country seems particularly bleak. An important reason is that the huge number of unemployed will undoubtedly increase if the nation focuses on deficit reduction to the exclusion of job growth. If people don...
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DC Circuit Vacates SEC Proxy Access Rules
Editor's Note: The following extracts from the DC Circuit's decision evidence its concern that regulatory bodies base their rules on a careful and well-documented justification. With a large number of rules expected to be issued by federal regulatory agencies (including under Dodd-Frank...
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