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February 23, 2011 |

Daily Decision Service Alert: Vol. 20, No. 35 - Feb. 23, 2011

Daily decision alert.
16 minute read
April 26, 2013 |

Feinberg Vows to Speed Boston Bombing Compensation

Compensation czar Kenneth Feinberg runs his New York and Washington alternative dispute resolution shop Feinberg Rozen when he's not handling payouts to victims of natural or man-made disasters.
4 minute read
January 24, 2007 |

Businesses blast official's detainee spiel

IT'S A RARE day when law firms get called out for their pro bono work. But that's exactly what happened when Pentagon official Charles "Cully" Stimson rattled off a list of firms representing Guantanamo Bay detainees-including Atlanta firms Sutherland Asbill Brennan and Alston Bird-predicting that businesses would shun their outside counsel for making the companies foot terrorists' legal bills.
8 minute read
April 05, 2010 |

Decisions

28 minute read
August 26, 2011 |

IP counsel navigate the perils and promises of social media

If one message came out loud and clear at ALM's fourth Social Media: Risks & Rewards conference, it's that for corporations trying to tame social media, time is measured in dog years.
5 minute read
September 17, 2007 |

Big Business

CLIMATE CHANGE, and the economic risks and opportunities it presents, is becoming such big business that even investment banks are taking notice.Earlier this year, Lehman Brothers released a broad-based, holistic report called The Business of Climate Change. Authored by Senior Economic Policy Adviser John Llewellyn, the report analyzes the business potential-and pitfalls-of a warming world.
4 minute read
January 20, 2011 |

Felton Jenkins-an extraordinary man

Robert L. Steed Special to the Daily ReportA. Felton Jenkins Jr. was born on Jan. 18, 1941, in scenic Madison. He married the love of his life, Julie Green, in 1966 and this led to three grown children. Felton was a partner of mine at King Spalding and never met an unanswered challenge in the practice of law, in the service of state government, in higher education activities and in church and charitable enterprises.
6 minute read
March 18, 2013 |

Top New York-Based Firms See Mostly Modest Growth

With demand for corporate work slack through most of the year and clients continuing to apply rate pressure, 12 elite Am Law 100 firms — with a handful of exceptions — made only slight gains in both gross revenues and profits in 2012, according to The American Lawyer's reporting.
12 minute read
July 16, 2007 |

Boardroom Climate Change

Jeffrey Smith, a partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and Matthew Morreale, an associate at the firm, write that the complexities of climate change decision-making may require new applications of the business judgment rule and will test the limits and scope of fiduciary duties of officers and directors as their responses to matters relating to climate change are questioned by stakeholders.
15 minute read
July 24, 2007 |

Boardroom Climate Change

In most of the recent high-profile corporate scandal cases, the business judgment rule has protected directors and officers from liability despite decision-making that often has raised eyebrows and sometimes lowered stock prices. The complexities of climate change decision-making may require new applications of the BJR, however, and will test the limits and scope of fiduciary duties of officers and directors as their responses to matters relating to climate change are questioned by stakeholders.
15 minute read

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