California Corporate & Securities Law

Last year, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster's  ruled that McDonald's Corporation's former Executive Vice President and Global ChiefPeople Officer, David Fairhurst, owed a duty of oversight comparable to the duty articulated by Chancellor Allen in In...

In common parlance, a fiduciary is someone you can trust.  The word itself is related to the Latin word, fidere, meaning to trust. We name our dogs "Fido" because dogs are trustworthy companions. For example, a dog named Hachiko (忠犬ハチ公) faithfully...

The creditable H.W. Fowler described "factor" as "one of those words . . . which are so popular as thought-saving reach-me-downs that all meaning is being rubbed off them by constant use."  Fowler's Modern English Usage (2d ed. p. 184).