Compensation

Compensation

Richard S. Chargar, Victoria H. Zerjav, Francisco J. Cebada | Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

An employer that administers an employee benefit plan often takes on the role of fiduciary. Under the fiduciary exception to the attorney-client privilege, communications between a plan fiduciary and counsel regarding matters of plan administration have been held to be discoverable, to the extent...

Compensation

Josefina V. Tranfa-Abboud | Marks Paneth LLP

In all cases, presenting a damages estimate to a jury is an art that must be backed up by understandable science. The art is in the combination of effective questions by counsel (whether retaining or opposing) and a presentation by the expert that gets the jury’s attention. The presentation...

Finance

Michael R. Smith, David E. Meadows, J. Andrew Pratt | King & Spalding LLP

Section 951 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires public companies to hold an advisory shareholder vote on executive compensation at least once every three years, and most public companies are now holding annual votes. In imposing this periodic requirement, Congress made clear that shareholder say-on-...