Recently by William M. Uptegrove
Compliance Readiness Dealing With Your Company's Employees In Connection With An External Investigation : Effective Strategies For Maximizing Success And Cooperation-Part II
Corporations can act only through people; as corporate counsel, you know only too well how true this familiar axiom is and how it can play out in the life of your company. Your company relies every day on people to be its public face and its public voice, and by far the largest segment of the...
Read MoreProject: Corporate Counsel Part II (Unintended Consequences) - Law Firms When The SEC Comes Knocking: What Corporate Counsel Needs To Know About Initiating An Internal Investigation In Response To An Inquiry By The Securities And Exchange Commission
Day after day we read: "Company X To Settle SEC Charges." Simply substitute "Company X" for the company of the day, or perhaps a few of the company's officers or directors, and you have tomorrow's headline. Despite their similarities, each of these headlines has its own story which began with an...
Read MoreProject: Corporate Counsel - Law Firms Directors And Officers Beware: Will Your Company's D&O Insurance Policy Be There When You Need It Most?
Imagine the following nightmare scenario: You are an officer or director of a publicly-traded company.The company's finance department discovers serious errors in the financial statements reported in the company's last 10-K or proxy statement.The company does the right thing, corrects the errors...
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