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... can see some of the effects of these rules when looking at the director compensation table from the Chevron Corporation (CVX-NYSE) 2009 proxy statement. According to the proxy statement, the company ... 116,000 130,372 - 10,988 257,360 Director Compensation. Chevron's board met eight times in 2008. All directors attended at least ... stock awards comprised approximately 46% of director compensation. Director Tenure. Half of Chevron's fourteen directors have served on the board since at least 2001. Samuel ...

[JURIST] In a joint statement issued Wednesday, Unocal [corporate website; JURIST news archive] and Chevron [corporate website] announced early results from a vote of a majority of Unocal shareholders that favored acceptance of a Chevron offer of $69 per share. The approval of the nearly $18 billion purchase comes after months of negotiations and contentious competition [JURIST report] from China

In a stinging rebuke to a small army of progressive American academics, journalists, foundation grantmakers, and others who've promoted the case for years, a San Francisco jury has cleared the Chevron Corporation of all liability in the civil suit filed...

... , Inc., started his keynote remarks at Los Angeles' LegalTech program by describing his employer, Chevron, as one of the Corporate 5! I'm familiar with Corporate 100, AmLaw 100, etc. When he spoke about the top 5 companies in the world, he ... systems? Gripe #3: Vendors are not realistic about the conversion and implementation costs, as well as the learning curve. And, in Chevron, technology training has to get in line with compliance, governance, HR, etc. training .... The world doesn't stop for ...

... S. District Court Judge Susan Illston, in an earlier ruling in the case, said the plaintiffs had presented sufficient evidence that Chevron personnel "were directly involved" in the attack on protesters by transporting the Nigerian soldiers despite knowing that they were " ... in the outcome. (Download Chevron order.) As The Am Law Daily reported when the trial began, the suit--based on the Alien Tort Claims Act--has potentially wide-reaching implications for corporations involved in the extractive ...

... the survivors of a massacre by Nigerian soldiers and police filed suit against the Chevron Corp. in the United States District Court in San Francisco. The suit alleges that the corporation's subsidiary paid, housed, and otherwise supported the Nigerian soldiers and police operating in the area and that Chevron security personnel directly participated in the massacre. (See plaintiffs' Complaint here). Lead attorney, Stephen M. Garcia states: What ...

... and cancers (which of course they did), yet still allowed employees to work around the chemicals. The suit also claims that Chevron failed to warn workers of the dangers associated with benzene exposure, and failed to take precautions to avoid exposing Miller to the chemical. ... With the assistance of benzene lawyers, many workers who have been wrongfully exposed to benzene have persevered over even the largest corporations. Most benzene lawyers will take no payment unless your case is successful.

... begs the question: what recourse do corporations like Exxon-Mobil (Exxon) have if their investments are nationalized? The dispute between Exxon and Venezuela began with six firms - Exxon, Chevron, Statoil, Conoco Phillips, Total and ... a period called the "Petroleum Opening," when the 1990's-era Venezuelan government attempted to maximize the benefits of transnational corporate investment in PDVSA while minimizing public responsibility. [2] After the Chavez government took power, the Venezuelan ...

... discrimination cases. On November 6, the Court hears oral argument in the first of these, Federal Express Corporation v. Holowecki. Holowecki requires the Court to decide what constitutes a "charge" for purposes of satisfying a variety of deadlines under ... general the alleged discriminatory acts. They maintain that the EEOC's reasonable regulations not only warrant Chevron deference as a reflection of agency expertise, but also appropriately focus on matters that are entirely within the worker's ...

... in developing countries without their shareholders finding out about it. As legal systems in developing countries mature, the days when multinational corporations automatically sought to defeat lawsuits in U.S. courts by foreign litigants by invoking the doctrine of forum ... caused to them by U.S. citizens. Wednesday also was the day on which the annual meeting of shareholders of the Chevron Corporation was held and environmental protesters were expected. When it took over Texaco eight years ago, ...