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- Attorney-client privielge; In-house consel; Content of communication; Role of In-House consel; Non-legal functions; Protected Attorney-Client communications discoverable; Business advice; Purpose and content of speech (1)
- Social Capital; Social Network; Board of Directors; Corporate Governance; Director and Board Performance; Independent Directors; Hong Kong; Board Structures; Monitory Function and Liability; OECD Principles of Corporate Governance; Diversity of Views; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Hong Kong's 2012 Code of Corporate Governance Practices; Definition of "Independent"; Social Capital Theories; "Investment in social Relations with Expected Returns in the Marketplace"; Solidarity Benefits of Closure; Structural Hole theory; Control Advantage; Law and Sociology; Cohesive Model; Minimum Performance Model; "Closeness Centrality"; "Betweenness Centrality"; Normative Implications of Social Capital; Regulatory Technology (RegTech); Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK); Cheung Kong Holdings (CKH); China Mobile Limited (China Mobile); NodeXL; Family Controlled Firms; State Owned Entities (SOE); Maximum Performance Model; Disintgrated Model (1)
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Social Capital Of Directors And Corporate Governance: A Social Network Analysis, Zihan Niu, Christopher Chen
Social Capital Of Directors And Corporate Governance: A Social Network Analysis, Zihan Niu, Christopher Chen
Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law
This Article examines how a director’s social capital might affect his or her behavior, the board’s performance, and corporate governance, as well as the potential normative implications of the director’s social network. We argue that the quality of board performance could be improved where the social network closure within the board is high and there are many non-redundant contacts beyond the board. Network closure can improve trust and collaboration within a board, while external contacts may benefit a company with more diverse sources of information. Moreover, different network positioning leads to the inequality of social capital for directors. With more …
When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It: Unifying The Split In New York's Analysis Of In-House Attorney-Client Privilege, Thomas O'Connor
When You Come To A Fork In The Road, Take It: Unifying The Split In New York's Analysis Of In-House Attorney-Client Privilege, Thomas O'Connor
Journal of Law and Policy
As one surveys the vast and ever-changing landscape of law and litigation, few things stand out as so unanimously exalted and carefully guarded as the privilege protecting attorney-client communications. Yet there is today a surprising lack of uniformity and predictability in the reasoning by which New York courts determine whether a communication made by in-house counsel to its corporate client will – or will not – enjoy the protection of that privilege. Rather than follow a single and predictable analysis to resolve the question, New York courts have oscillated between one line of decisions focusing primarily on the purpose of …