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... One can see some of the effects of these rules when looking at the director compensation table from Sprint Nextel's (S-NYSE) 2008 Proxy Statement. According to the proxy statement, directors ... 156,000 131,974 - - - 288,454 Director Compensation: Last year, the board for Sprint Nextel held six regular meetings and fourteen special meetings. All directors ... (20.7%). Mr. Forsee had $89,516 of income from personal use of the corporate aircraft and had $4,679 worth of home security equipment and services ...

... almost two decades under his belt at Sprint Nextel Corporation, new general counsel CHARLES WUNSCH says he has become a jack of all trades ... opportunity to play to my strengths," Bishop says. Bishop has been practicing corporate and securities law for decades, beginning in 1979 with Miller & Martin, a law ... counsel for Coca-Cola Enterprises, where he handled securities law compliance and corporate governance. That expertise will be essential at Unum. Bishop's looking forward to building the legal ...

... determining compensation and greater sunlight cast on assorted perqs including club memberships and personal use of corporate aircraft. The one area where the disclosure requirements fall short, however, is with respect to compensation consultants. The consultants are ... including Wachovia Corporation, The Procter & Gamble Company, Pfizer Inc., Sprint Nextel Corporation, The Home Depot, Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. In other instances, the compensation consultants appear to act more as ...

[JURIST] Leading Friday's corporations and securities law news, affiliates of both Sprint [corporate website] and Nextel [corporate website] plan legal action relating to the companies' planned merger. In a filing with the SEC today, Nextel Partners [corporate website], a Washington state company that distributes Nextel services, declared its intention to vote on forcing a stock buy-out by the

... Depot Hyatt Corp. Intel Microsoft Merrill Lynch & Co. Motorola Inc. Sprint Nextel Time Warner Inc. Yahoo! Inc. Mergers, Restructurings, and Bankruptcies Contributing to Layoffs. Mergers, restructurings, and bankruptcies are also contributing to corporate legal department layoffs. The pharmaceutical industry has been particularly active on the merger front, embarking on gigantic acquisitions. Some of these big mergers will ...

... allowing the parent to pursue claims against the CEO of the subsidiary. The court addressed the five customary factors to consider for an analysis of when the corporate veil can be pierced, in addition to fraud, but the Court concluded that the parent company in this case failed to carry ... the corporate form and corporate formalities very seriously, and will only disregard the corporate form in exceptional cases. See Sprint Nextel Corp. v. iPCS, Inc., 2008 WL 2737409, at * 11 (Del. Ch., July 14, ...

... the trial court noted that McZeal had "conceded that [he] didn't know what device, what mechanism or what means Nextel uses to transmit and connect its telephone customers to the rest of the world." At this stage in the litigation, all McZeal has access ... of the 12 claims were infringed, McZeal alleged simply that As previously stated in this Complaint the defendants SPRINT NEXTEL CORPORATION and agents manufacturers or distributes a product called "INTERNATIONAL WALKIE TALKIE" or Motorola i930 ...

... , including CNN, FOX, ESPN, The Weather Channel. Dial-up networking via USB or Bluetooth® wireless technology on the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network for using the Treo 755p as a modem for a laptop computer Superior phone functionality, including one-touch speakerphone and ... and wireless operator channels throughout the world, and at Palm Retail Stores and Palm online stores (http://www.palm.com/store). More information about Palm, Inc. is available at http://www.palm.com. Sprint Nextel Corporation

... defendant was not. Mr. Taub suggested that cell tower technology could lead to a new tactic by criminals of planting their phones "in a place other than where they're committing the crime." Mr. Farkas said in an interview that he got the idea of going to Sprint for transmitter data after a jailhouse interview with his client. As Mr. Farkas was leaving, he said, Mr. Wright told him, almost as an afterthought: "The only reason I knew this happened was I was on the phone, talking to my friend Chris ...

A Counsel Corporation press release appearing today, February 19, 2008, at Marketwire states, in part: Counsel Corporation ("Counsel") (TSX:CXS) is pleased to announce that its 92%-owned subsidiary, C2 Global Technologies Inc. ("C2")(OTCBB:COBT), ... infringement lawsuit against AT&T, Inc., Verizon Communications, Inc., Qwest Communications International, Inc., Bellsouth Corporation, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Global Crossing Limited, and Level 3 Communications, Inc. The complaint was filed in ...