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There is a growing, organized effort on various fronts to get every public company to voluntarily disclose information about its "carbon footprint" and about the other ways in which climate change may affect its business in the future.

Given the increasingly global nature of business, many US public and private companies find it advantageous to incorporate subsidiaries in jurisdictions outside of the United States.

Directors and officers of corporations face the risk of personal liability for actions performed and decisions made on behalf of the corporation.

"The Initial Public Offering" is an annual guide for Executives and Boards of Directors, published by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

"Don't ask, don't tell" is not a winning strategy when it comes to compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

Directors and Officers of private companies potentially face unlimited personal liability if they are sued.

When it comes to compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), multinational companies that adopt a "don't ask, don't tell" policy may come to regret their hands-off approach.

So far the credit debacle and backdating cases haven't had an immediate impact on the price of Directors & Officers (D&O) liability insurance.

When it comes to indemnification agreements for in-house counsel, an interesting question arises given the ethical duties of attorneys.

The attached report gives a comprehensive overview of pandemic influenza, and the effects it could have on the workforce and a company's bottom line.

Could abuses of 10b5-1 trading plans become the next corporate governance scandal?

The large out-of-pocket payments made by independent directors of publicly traded firms are enough to make any board member nervous, not to mention their insurance brokers.