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Thursday, September 1, 2005
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 people through whom your company can act is its employees, from...
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Monday, August 1, 2005
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 inquiry by the United States Securities and Exchange...
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Sunday, May 1, 2005
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 and announces the corrections to the investing public and...