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Oversold and Underdelivered: SEC Charges Former Startup CEO with “AI Washing” Securities Fraud

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On June 11, 2024, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) charged Illit Raz, the former CEO and founder of the since-shut-down artificial intelligence recruiting startup Joonko Diversity Inc....more

McDermott Will & Emery

[Event] Digital Health Forum 2023 - May 17th - 18th, New York, NY

Building on the success of our inaugural conference, McDermott’s Digital Health Forum is back! Join senior leaders transforming digital health for ample networking opportunities and robust panel discussions on the business,...more

Allen Matkins

Court Orders Discovery In Derivative Action Challenging Racial Diversity

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Last year, the City of Pontiac General Employees' Retirement System filed a derivative suit against the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Cisco Systems, Inc.  The gist of the complaint was that the "Defendants...more

Woods Rogers

[Event] 2021 Labor & Employment Law Review & Update - October 6th, Norfolk, VA

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A program for CEOs, Managers, In-House Counsel, and Human Resource Professionals. The post-pandemic workplace is full of challenges, both old and new, in the HR realm. Our attorneys will be providing a full day of...more

A&O Shearman

18th Annual Corporate Governance & Executive Compensation Survey 2020

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In last year’s Survey, we noted that concern for environmental and social issues (the “E” and the “S” of “ESG”) had reached an inflection point, having taken center stage from the more traditional governance issues (the “G”...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 9.29.2020 | Top Story: House Unveils New $2.2T Covid Stimulus Bill

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House leaders are out with a new Covid stimulus effort—slimmed down from earlier packages but, at $2.2 trillion, a sizeable proposal that they say “is needed to support American households and businesses still experiencing...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Addressing the challenge of board racial diversity

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After taking up the challenge of increasing board gender diversity, companies are now increasingly facing the challenge of achieving board racial diversity. Recent social unrest over systemic racial injustice has pushed...more

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Blog: What were the results of the NYC Comptroller’s Office Boardroom Accountability Project 3.0?

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You might recall that, in October last year, the Office of the NYC Comptroller launched its Boardroom Accountability Project 3.0, an initiative designed to increase board and CEO diversity. This third phase of the initiative...more

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message

Account for the ‘Ethics Tax’ on Female Leaders

The arc of history has been moving, albeit in fits and starts, toward gender equality. In the business world, and a little less in the legal world, we see more female leaders at the top. But once a woman reaches that point,...more

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NYC Controller Launches "Rooney Rule" Initiative, But Is It Legal In California?

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John Jenkins yesterday wrote about the New York City Controller's initiative asking boards of directors to adopt a policy "requiring that the initial lists of candidates from which new management-supported director nominees...more

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Blog: NYC Comptroller’s Office initiates Boardroom Accountability Project 3.0 promoting adoption of the “Rooney Rule”

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And speaking of the NYC Comptroller’s Boardroom Accountability Project, as I just did in this PubCo post on the Project’s push for proxy access, on Friday, Stringer announced the the newest phase of the Project, Boardroom...more

Baker Donelson

Advice for Women Making Decisions for Aging Parents: Q&A with Cindy Baier, President and CEO, Brookdale Senior Living

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I understand that 65 percent of Brookdale residents, 75 percent of Brookdale's workforce, and 80 percent of key health care decision makers are women. Why do you think that is the case?...more

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ISS Opens Global Policy Survey for 2020

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. has launched its Annual Policy Survey.  The survey is a key component of ISS’ annual benchmark policy development process, looking at potential policy changes globally for 2020 and...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Corporate Law & Governance Update - April 2019

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DIRECTORS AS VENDORS - A new controversy at a large health system highlights the legal and reputational challenges that can arise when directors sell services to the organizations they serve as fiduciaries. According to...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Gender Diversity Survey—2018 Proxy Season Results

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The Fenwick & West Gender Diversity Survey provides unique insight into women’s participation at the most senior levels of public technology and life sciences companies in the Silicon Valley 150 Index (SV 150) and the large...more

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Corporate Law & Governance Update - February 2019

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INCREASING FOCUS ON CORPORATE PURPOSE - There is a notable increase in governance discourse on the relationship of corporate purpose to sustainable revenue growth, in the context of changing social and political...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden's 2019 Insights: US Corporate Governance Turning Up the Heat

U.S. public companies face a wide array of challenges, from greater market volatility and increasing economic and geopolitical uncertainty to disruptive technologies, artificial intelligence, social media and cybersecurity...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Higher Education Institutions Join Fortune 500 Companies in Diversity and Inclusion Pledge

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A year ago, the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion launched (“the Action”). The Action, which is the brainchild of PricewaterhouseCooper’s (PwC) U.S. Chairman Tim Ryan, is a call to CEOs to pledge to advance the cause of...more

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Mitigating Employment Litigation Landmines With Workplace Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

Meaningful diversity and inclusion efforts in the workplace have evolved from being the right thing to do to being the smart thing to do—and now they are quickly moving toward being the essential thing companies must do to...more

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NYC Pension Funds Set Their Sights on Board Diversity

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The Background: The NYC Pension Funds, which led the largely successful campaign to implement proxy access rights across corporate America, have launched a new crusade to improve the diversity of corporate boards....more

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Proposed UK Corporate Governance Reforms Target Executive Pay Justification, Employee Engagement

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The Situation: The UK government has proposed several corporate governance reforms in an effort to improve transparency and accountability in private and public employers....more

Cooley LLP

Blog: Studies Show Hedge Fund Activists Have Adverse Impact On Board Diversity And Target More Firms With Women CEOs

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While more and more institutional holders and asset managers are noisily promoting board diversity among their portfolio companies—including, most recently, the NYC Comptroller and the NYC pension funds—hedge fund activists...more

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In Case You Missed It: Launch Links - August, 2017 #2

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Some interesting links we found across the web this week: Why Startups Should Look for Opportunity Between the Coasts - Startups might consider an extended pit stop in the “flyover” states, where smaller cities are...more

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Gender Diversity Survey - 2016 Proxy Season Results

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The Fenwick & West Gender Diversity Survey provides unique insight into women’s participation at the most senior levels of public technology and life sciences companies in the Silicon Valley 150 Index (SV 150) and the large...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Board Diversity Issues Don’t Fade Away After 8 Seconds (or an IPO, Apparently)

When Snap, Inc., parent company to the popular social media app, Snapchat, completed its much-anticipated IPO last week, investors were quick to question whether the company was overvalued. Despite half a billion dollars in...more

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