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executive compensation
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ContractsProf Blog
Big banks as Petri dishes for lower compensation?
A lot people have wondered whether the high-paid employees at the top investment bank are really worth the money they're paid. After all, they were at the wheel when the…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
State Official: AIG Bonuses Do Not Violate State Unfair Trade Practices Law (CUTPA)
Remember the big uproar over the AIG bonuses a few weeks back? (Seems like a few years ago now, right?) Well, the beginning of the end of Connecticut's interest in…
The D&O Diary
Executive Compensation: The New Front Line in the Litigation Wars?
Litigation over executive compensation is nothing new. The long-running clash over Richard Grasso’s $187 million NYSE pay package is only one of many titanic legal battles compensation issues produced in…
ContractsProf Blog
Maybe the foxes are now in charge of the henhouse
At failed insurer AIG, the top individual bonus recipients got $3 million each, which was enough to get death threats and their own special piece of legislation from the United States…
ContractsProf Blog
. . . and still more bonus news
Law.com has a story today on the boom in litigation relating to executive bonuses, which is going both ways. Shareholders, public officials are going after companies that pay bonuses they…
ContractsProf Blog
Another Take on Bonuses
This was sent to me by Valpo Law alumnus, Jeffrey Gordon, whose blog can be found here. Lots of ink is now being spilled over the sanctity of contracts, which…
ContractsProf Blog
Congress Expands Attack on Bonuses
In yet another ContractsProf Blog exclusive (this must be our lucky day!), we break news of bonuses paid to members of the executive branch during the Bush administration. It turns…
La Revue
Remuneration for corporate executives: a few good resolutions for 2009 !
On 6 October, Laurence Parisot, chairman of MEDEF, presented an updated version of the “code de gouvernement d’entreprise” for the self-regulation of companies relating to executives’ remuneration and the terms…
ContractsProf Blog
AIG Bonuses: Enter Force Majeure — Stage Left
While lots of folks are scrambling around looking for contract-law defenses to retention payments such as those given employees at failed AIG, Congress is looking at resolving the issue by…
ContractsProf Blog
AIG Talk
Deborah Post (Touro) and I were guests on a Legal Talk Network segment discussing (what else?) the AIG bonuses. For those who can't get enough of hearing law professors talk…