Podcast: Marc Steinberg on corporate officer and director liability

Are corporate officers and directors really “fiduciaries” in the way the black letter of the law would have us believe?

Marc Steinberg, Radford Chair in Law and Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law, says that corporate officers and directors aren’t truly fiduciaries, and proposes the use of a new term, “discretionaries,” to capture the standard to which they are actually held.

Professor Steinberg relays that

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