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Corporate Indemnification And Advancement Provisions, Good Faith, And The Responsibility Of Corporate Attorneys To Protect The Corporation From Misconduct, Markena Diane Peavy Jan 2013

Corporate Indemnification And Advancement Provisions, Good Faith, And The Responsibility Of Corporate Attorneys To Protect The Corporation From Misconduct, Markena Diane Peavy

Markena D. Peavy

The last decade of corporate scandals has exposed that corporations are vulnerable to corruption and exploitation, which has significant and lasting effects on the national and global economy. This article examines the corporate attorney’s responsibility to serve as “gatekeeper” for the corporation, primarily in circumstances where the interests of corporate officials and the interests of the corporation are in direct conflict, and Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which governs the indemnification and advancement rights of corporate officers and the confines of the corporation’s power to confer such rights. Delaware courts have long established that indemnification is to …


Teaching Business Law Through An Entrepreneurial Lens, Michelle M. Harner Jan 2013

Teaching Business Law Through An Entrepreneurial Lens, Michelle M. Harner

Journal of Business & Technology Law

The legal market has changed. Although change creates uncertainty and fear, it also can create opportunity. This essay explores the opportunity for innovation in the business law curriculum, and the role of simulation to help create more practice-aware new lawyers.


Unregulated Corporate Internal Investigations: Achieving Fairness For Corporate Constituents, Bruce A. Green, Ellen S. Progdor Jan 2013

Unregulated Corporate Internal Investigations: Achieving Fairness For Corporate Constituents, Bruce A. Green, Ellen S. Progdor

Faculty Scholarship

This article focuses on the relationship between corporations and their employee constituents in the context of corporate internal investigations, an unregulated multi-million dollar business. The classic approach provided in the 1981 Supreme Court opinion, Upjohn v. United States, is contrasted with the reality of modern-day internal investigations that may exploit individuals to achieve a corporate benefit with the government. Attorney-client privilege becomes an issue as corporate constituents perceive that corporate counsel is representing their interests, when in fact these internal investigators are obtaining information for the corporation to barter with the government. Legal precedent and ethics rules provide little relief …