Practice Area Blogs & Digests

Instagram will soon launch a new tool to help its internet celebrities, or “influencers,” disclose when they are being paid by sponsors. 

A new study by Korn Ferry Hay Group showed a 4.2 percent increase in CEO pay at the 300 largest public companies measured by revenues.

According to a recent Meridian survey, many proactive companies are calculating the ratio of median employee to CEO pay in anticipation of the 2018 proxy season, when the SEC’s pay ratio disclosure rule is scheduled to take effect.

As the Trump administration approaches the six-month mark, deregulation is still a hot topic, with help from the Supreme Court and Congress. 

Shareholders at ExxonMobil’s annual meeting voted 62.1 percent in favor of a resolution requesting that the company “publish an annual assessment of the long-term portfolio impacts of technological advances and global climate change policies.”

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) adopted a new auditing standard aimed at enhancing the relevance and usefulness of the auditor's report to investors.

In response to a proxy fight seeking to unseat six of its directors, Dutch pharmaceutical company Mylan has filed an “Investor Outreach” supplement to its 2017 proxy statement.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s decision creates a loophole that enables challengers to bring new kinds of attacks against older applications.

Judge Robert Scola, Jr. released his verdict and Order following a non-jury trial: the defendant Winn-Dixie violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Silence can be devastating when it comes to intellectual property rights.