Forty-two struggling companies paid top execs a total of $165M before sinking into Chapter 11 last year.

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) William S. Boyd School of Law will co-host the second annual “Summit for Corporate Governance” on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

In two weeks, students will return to classes at UNLV.

Independent directors have incentives to build reputations as friendly to the companies hiring them, researchers say.

As Apollo Management moves to close its acquisition of the Venetian and Palazzo (in tandem with Vici Properties), the Culinary Union hosted an online retrospective of Apollo’s tenure as co-owner of Caesars Entertainment during the 2007-2017 period.

In a recent Above the Law post, Kathryn Rubino points out that, on average, the 100 highest-grossing Biglaw firms (Am Law 100) increased their revenue by 6.6 percent.

In the heart of the pandemic, when thousands of the nation’s retail stores were closed, the stationery chain Paper Source paid its top seven executives a combined $1.47 million in bonuses. Now that the company is in bankruptcy, its executives are seeking an additional $1 million in potential bonuses at the same time that many of the vendors it works with — largely greeting card companies run by women — are struggling to be repaid as little as $5,000.

Attorneys working to recover money for victims of arrested attorney Robert Graham want more than half of the funds the trustee has on hand for legal fees, records show.