Taxation & Estate Planning

Executive Pay at Delphi
When it comes to executive compensation, scholars tend to fall into two camps. Some defend current levels of executive compensation as the product of a market. Simply put, highly skilled executives negotiate for very rich compensation packages because of the...

New Paper on Collegial Decision-Making at the Supreme Court of Canada
University of Toronto law professors Andrew Green and Benjamin Alarie have posted a new paper on the Social Science Research Network entitled Should They All Just Get Along? Judicial Ideology, Collegiality, and Appointments to the Supreme Court of Canada: “Over the past 25 years, the justices of the Supreme Court of Canada have not exhibited the [...

Excessive Executive Compensation
All the scoop on current issues in Executive Compensation: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/business/06comp.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=executive+compensation&st=nyt&oref=slogin (ag) April 9, 2008, in Economy

Executive Compensation 2008
My partners Michael J. Segal, Jeannemarie O?Brien, Adam J. Shapiro and Jeremy L. Goldstein recently issued Executive Compensation 2008, a memorandum outlining key recommendations for directors to consider as they address executive compensation matters in the year ahead...

Just Announced: Our Big Executive Compensation Conferences
Just Announced: Our Big Executive Compensation Conferences We are excited to announce that our Conferences - "Tackling Your 2009 Compensation Disclosures: The 3rd Annual Proxy Disclosure Conference" & "5th Annual Executive Compensation Conference" – will take place in New Orleans...

Rosen on Executive Compensation
Who Killed Katie Couric? And Other Tales from the World of Executive Compensation Reform, by KENNETH M. ROSEN, University of Alabama - School of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract: With average Americans perturbed about executive...

Workers Compensation Overview
Federal laws that cover workplace injuries

State Farm Class Actions
Policy Holders Settle

Wal-Mart
Faces Class Action over Return Policy

Options Backdating
Former Broadcom executive settles $1.3 million stock option backdating lawsuit.

Contract Extortion
County Executive Robert Janiszewski ordered to pay Hudson County a $650,000 racketeering settlement.

Canceled Insurance
Judge orders Health Net Inc. to pay $9 million settlement after terminating a policyholder's policy after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

Hurricane Ike
Gulf Coast Residents Fight for Compensation