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Branding The Small Wonder: Delaware's Dominance And The Market For Corporate Law, Omari Scott Simmons
Branding The Small Wonder: Delaware's Dominance And The Market For Corporate Law, Omari Scott Simmons
University of Richmond Law Review
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Universal Corporation Business Overview: Presentation To The University Of Richmond And Questions With Preston Wigner, General Counsel, Christopher L. Rathlev
Universal Corporation Business Overview: Presentation To The University Of Richmond And Questions With Preston Wigner, General Counsel, Christopher L. Rathlev
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
George C. Freeman, III presented a business overview of Universal Corporation at the University of Richmond on September 5, 2007. Prior to joining Universal Leaf Tobacco Company in 1997, Mr. Freeman served as a law clerk for the Honorable Richard S. Arnold, Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and for the Honorable Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also spent time as an associate with Hunton & Williams, an international law firm. Mr. Freeman was elected General Counsel and Secretary of Universal Corporation in February 2001 and Vice …
Corporate Misconduct And The Perfect Storm Of Shareholder Litigation, Jessica M. Erickson
Corporate Misconduct And The Perfect Storm Of Shareholder Litigation, Jessica M. Erickson
Law Faculty Publications
When it comes to combating corporate misconduct, is more litigation necessarily better? The conventional wisdom is that we should deploy every weapon in the law's arsenal to combat corporate misconduct. This wisdom, however, reflects legal scholarship that is confined to analyzing securities class actions and derivative suits in isolation, with little inquiry into the interplay between them. By Jailing to take a broader view of shareholder litigation, legal scholars have missed an opportunity to provide courts with the conceptual tools necessary to meet the complex challenges of complex corporate litigation. In courtrooms and boardrooms across the country, a debate is …