Avvo, Inc. promises, or threatens (depending on your vantage), to disrupt the traditional ways that lawyers and clients connect. I interview Josh King, Vice President for Business Development and General Counsel at Avvo.
Interview with Francis Pileggi on the "fee-shifting" controversy in corporate law. Corporations want to require shareholders to pay corporate legal fees in failed shareholder lawsuits. Delaware has proposed legislation that would ban such "fee-shifting" in corporate charters and bylaws.
Interview with Prof. Mike Koehler on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which forbids American corporations from bribing foreign officials to generate business abroad.
I interview Tim Seitz and Jason Spicer, vice presidents at Flextronics, a global technology manufacturing company, on the ethics of American corporations rechartering abroad in order to diminish their tax liability.
Interview with Eric Cohen, Chairperson of Investors Against Genocide, discussing the problem of conventional retirement investment funds holding stock in companies complicit in genocidal political regimes, and what can be done about it.