... legal departments, and Diligent Board Member Services, Inc., a worldwide leader in web-based bo...
This article examines the federal government's growing use of 18 USC § 1346 to prosecute public company executives for breaching their fiduciary duties. Section 1346 is a controversial but under-examined statute making it a felony to engage in a scheme "to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services." Although enacted by Congress over twenty years ago, the Supreme Court repeatedly declined to review the statute, until now. The questions before the Supreme Court are of particular interest to public company executives and their professional advisors. Traditionally, Delaware law has governed the content and enforcement of executives' legal duties, largely protecting public company fiduciaries from civil liability. Now, with the emergence of honest services fraud as a weapon ...
... executives to be adequately informed and diligent when making corporate decisions and to protect the..., each director must devote adequate time to board activities, review materials prepared for board me... their own colleagues or even non-director members of the senior management team. Therefore, corporat...
When Highlands State Bank in Vernon was negotiating a merger of equals with Noble Community Bank in Sparta earlier this summer, the Vernon bank's board members were kept up to date between monthly meetings through secure e-mails because of a new Web-based board portal developed and sold by Financial Services Inc. in Glen Rock. The portal is called Director Access and saves time that might otherwise have been spent making telephone calls or faxing or mailing documents, said George Irwin, the bank's president. "We really like it," he said. "Our directors aren't particularly computer savvy, but everybody's comfortable with it.
...in Menlo Park, Calif., Diligent Board Member Services Inc. in New York, Thomson Re...
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission or CFTC) is adopting regulations to implement certain provisions of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd- Frank Act). These regulations set forth reporting and recordkeeping requirements and daily trading records requirements for swap dealers (SDs) and major swap participants (MSPs). These regulations also set forth certain duties imposed upon SDs and MSPs registered with the Commission with regard to: Risk management procedures; monitoring of trading to prevent violations of applicable position limits; diligent supervision; business continuity and disaster recovery; disclosure and the ability of regulators to obtain general information; and antitrust considerations. In addition, these regul...
...'' and to add a new definition of ``board of directors.''. ---------------------------------... may be classified as MSPs would not be members of NFA or similar organizations; and (b) the filin... aligned to the rules of the UK Financial Services Authority, which are to retain recordings for a mi...
...CRAWFORD ET AL. v. MARION COUNTY ELECTION BOARD ET AL. . . CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT ... bona fide resident merely because he is a member of the armed services." Id., at 666-667 (citing Ca... decide on remand whether "a reasonably diligent independent candidate [could] be expected to satis...
... investment never materialized, the Alchemix board had resigned, and the defendant corporation's foun...Eckel, Matthew M. Ryan, any member of the Securities Litigation practice, or the atto... a solicitation to provide professional services and should not be construed as a statement as to a...
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office or USPTO) proposes new rules of practice to implement the provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act that provide for trials before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board). The proposed rules would provide a consolidated set of rules relating to Board trial practice for inter partes review, post-grant review, the transitional program for covered business method patents, and derivation proceedings. The proposed rules would also provide a consolidated set of rules to implement the provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act related to seeking judicial review of Board decisions.
... that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board members will include the Director, Deputy Director, Commis... provides that fees for all processing, services, or materials relating to patents not specified in... be required to show that it was fully diligent in seeking discovery and that there is no undue pr...
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