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On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a controversial rule that will provide investors with greater power to nominate directors of public companies. The three-to-two vote – which split along party lines with the Commission’s two Republicans voting no – enables investors that control at least three percent of a company’s stock to put their nominees for board ... READ MORE

Bulletproof’s Weekly Web Wrap-Up offers a compilation of key discussions regarding social media’s increasing relevance to business. Considering last week’s massive spike in interest in location-based social networking – which was sparked by the launch of Facebook Places – it is only fitting that this week’s Wrap-Up focuses on how businesses both large and small can leverage networks such as FourSquare, ... READ MORE

In this regular feature, Bulletproof interviews top plaintiffs’ counsel for their perspective on the crises likely to affect businesses in the near future. Today, we speak to Erika Kelton, a partner at Phillips & Cohen LLP in Washington, DC, which specializes in representing whistleblowers in qui tam lawsuits. We spoke to Ms. Kelton about the highly significant but relatively untouted new ... READ MORE

While last week’s announcement that Wright County Egg was recalling a record-breaking 380 million eggs because of a salmonella outbreak certainly qualified as a nightmare scenario, it was a crisis a well-prepared agribusiness company should be able to manage. Even with the next week’s news that the total number of affected eggs ballooned to more than half-a-billion, the situation wasn’t ... READ MORE

The top six social media tips to know before you leave the office. Back when the broadcast networks and major daily papers dominated the news market, it was easy to gauge the authority and reach of any given report. But today, as bloggers play an increasingly significant role, evaluating the credibility and readership of a particular piece of “news” is quite ... READ MORE

In a recent article published by The Government Contractor, David M. Nadler and David Yang of Dickstein Shapiro LLP discuss a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that could lead to significant increases in government contractor liability under the False Claims Act (FCA). The ruling handed down in U.S. ex rel. Miller v. Bill Harbert ... READ MORE