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Many of us are still trying to get comfortable with the idea of autonomous vehicles. Turns out, we may soon need to get comfortable with the idea of autonomous companies.

A first-of-its-kind draft bill has been proposed to the Delaware legislature that would allow the creation of an Artificial Intelligence Company (AIC), a form of legal personhood for an entity that ope...


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D&O Diary readers are aware of a growing trend over the past year: an increasing number of securities class actions arising from alleged market manipulation involving low-float public c...


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The fourth episode of The D&O Diary Podcast Series, discussing the D&O liability and insurance implications of the current Trump administration’s tariff policies, is now live.

The D&O Diary has closely followed the rapidly evolving tariff environment and the growing range of litigation and liability issues arising from it. Building on our p...


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Both the number of securities class action lawsuit filings and the number and total value of securities lawsuit settlements during the first half of 2026 were on track for the highest annual levels in several years, according to reports published this week by National Economic Research Associates (NERA) and Cornerstone Research, respectively. The NERA report, entitled “Recent...


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Ben Dubin

In the following guest post, Ben Dubin, Managing Member of VC Expert Services LLC, discusses Delaware Vice Chancellor Laster’s January 29, 2026 opinion in the Calumet Capital Partners case. This article, which is the first of two discussing recent Delaware decisions regarding VC firm’s representative’s service on the firm’s portfolio company boards, argues that t...


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