Jeff C. Dodd

ISS Publishes Guidance on New Methodology for Evaluating Pay-for-Performance Alignment and Updates to its Governance Risk Indicators
Jeff C. Dodd,Edward (Ted) A. Gilman,Dudley W. Murrey, January 13, 2012
As discussed in our previous client alert, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the leading proxy advisory firm, will employ a new methodology for determining pay-for-performance alignment when making voting recommendations at public company shareholder meetings held on or after February 1,...

ISS Publishes 2012 Updates to Benchmark U.S. Proxy Voting Guideline
Jeff C. Dodd,Edward (Ted) A. Gilman,Dudley W. Murrey, December 8, 2011
On November 17, 2011, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the leading proxy advisory firm, published 2012 updates to its benchmark U.S. proxy voting guidelines. ISS will use the updated benchmark guidelines to formulate voting recommendations for public company shareholder meetings held on or...

Three Large States Revise Their Security Breach Notification Laws and Texas Applies Its Law to Residents of Some Other States to Boot
Jeff C. Dodd, November 2, 2011
Over forty states have adopted laws requiring businesses to implement some form of security procedures with respect to specified data relating to individuals and to provide notice when those data security measures have been breached. While the structures of these laws often share common elements,...