Updating Your Company's Corporate Governance Policies: Leading Lawyers on Analyzing Compliance Programs, Evaluating Possible Risks, and Tailoring ... Needs of Various Companies (Inside the Minds)

Updating Your Company's Corporate Governance Policies is an authoritative, insider's perspective on best practices for identifying, tailoring, and integrating corporate governance policies. Featuring partners and chairs from some of the nation's leading law firms, these experts guide the reader through analyzing compliance programs, structuring successful boards, and identifying strategies for taking corrective and preventive action. From evaluating challenges for global companies to understanding auditing procedures, these leaders offer expertise on establishing corporate compliance cultures, developing a corporate governance team, and forecasting a timeline for updating policies. These top experts offer a clear understanding of risks involving internal controls, liquidity, credit, and international monetary transactions. Additionally, these top lawyers give tips for avoiding common mistakes involved when evaluating oversight vigilance, establishing training and reviews, and balancing oversight and micromanagement. Finally, these experts evaluate current trends looking at executive compensation, crisis management, peer reviews, and disclosure. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great legal minds of today, as these experienced lawyers offer up their thoughts around the keys to navigating an increasingly-enforced and ever-changing area of law.

Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world's most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession, or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book.

Chapters Include:

Jeffrey T. Demerath, Partner, Armstrong Teasdale LLP "Governing White-Collar Crime"

Sonny Allison, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP "Corporate Governance: an Overview and Thoughts on Current Issues"

P. Blake Allen, Partner, Duane Morris LLP "Building a Framework, Not a Foundation"

William H. Clark Jr., Partner, Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP "The Influence of North Dakota on U.S. Corporate Governance Debate"

Alexander D. Bono, Partner, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP "Keys to Corporate Governance and Updating Policies"

Christopher R. Rowley, Partner, Vinson & Elkins LLP "Reviewing Policies in Corporate Governance"

Jane K. Hammond and Gregory J. Sergesketter, Partners, Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP "Document Retention Policies"

Suzanne Hulst Clawson, Shareholder, Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd PA "A Practical Approach to Formulating and Updating Corporate Governance Policies and Documents"

Robert J. Tannous, Partner, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur LLP "Keeping Your Corporate Governance Policies Current"

Jean C. Brooks, Partner, Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard LLP "Emerging Corporate Governance Perspectives"

Jacob S. Frenkel, Partner and Shareholder, Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy & Ecker PA "The Centrality of Corporate Compliance to Effective Governance"