Litigation Finance Kerfuffle Points to Need for Clarity Around Emerging Asset Class
The practice of “litigation financing” has become a source of great controversy in the legal industry. If you almost fell asleep reading that sent...
Coming to Terms With Marrying Sustainability and Executive Compensation
In 1970, influential economist Milton Friedman made a bold proclamation in an essay for The New York Times that changed the face of business ethics. F...
KPMG Dinged $50M For Audit Inspection Scheme
The SEC called them unacceptable and astonishing. Now, KPMG gets to call them old news. We’re talking, of course, about the SEC’s allegations that...
Shareholders Shoot Down Climate Change Proposals at Exxon Meeting
As one of the world’s largest oil and gas manufacturers, Exxon Mobil always commands the attention of environmentalists from outside the company. Th...
Supreme Court Review: App Store, Arbitration Among Top Business Cases This Term
The Supreme Court has finished hearing arguments for the 2018-2019 term, the first with controversial Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the bench. Kavanaugh'...