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Third Circuit adopts and expands “employee” test for Title VII cases

  • Day Pitney LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 21 2013

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently adopted a six-factor test to determine whether a shareholder-director of a company could be

Process for adopting other post-employment benefits ("OPEB" ) trust

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 8 2007

Under Governmental Accounting Standards Board (“GASB”) Statement 45, public employers must soon account differently for “other post-employment benefits” (“OPEB Benefits”

Disclosure of employee and director hedging

  • Day Pitney LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • July 28 2010

On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law

Update on "say on pay"

  • Day Pitney LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • July 16 2010

On July 15, 2010, the U.S. Senate approved the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Corporate conviction

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 28 2011

The United Kingdom also won its first conviction under the 2007 law criminalizing corporate manslaughter

Guidance for 2011 proxy season

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 1 2010

Following the enhanced disclosures required in the 2010 proxy season by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), additional disclosures for the 2011 proxy season relating to corporate governance and executive compensation have been mandated by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

A roadmap for revising an equity compensation plan

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 6 2011

Now that proxy season is over, it is advisable to consider whether your current equity compensation plan will need to be amended or replaced and submitted for shareholder approval at next year's annual meeting

Congress passes JOBS bill for emerging growth companies

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 27 2012

Congress passed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act today with the stated intention of making it easier for emerging growth companies to raise capital and, as a result, to increase employment

Government pressure on company not to pay legal fees for individual defendants violated their Sixth Amendment rights; dismissal of indictment affirmed

  • Day Pitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 10 2008

On August 28, 2008, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of all criminal charges against 13 former partners and employees of the accounting firm KPMG on the grounds that their Sixth Amendment right to counsel had been violated when KPMG was pressured by Justice Department policies and prosecutors into limiting and then terminating its payment of the defendants’ legal fees