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Compensation for independent directors is expected to grow in 2010, despite downward pressure on executive pay and continued concerns about the strength of the economic recovery.

Whole Foods' CEO's decision to give up his chairmanship in response to shareholder demands could signal similar moves at other companies. But shareholders are looking for more than a symbolic gesture.

In an extraordinary move, Siemens has extracted financial settlements from former directors and managers to pay for their failures in Germany’s biggest corporate bribery scandal.

Many boards in the financial sector recently have had one qualification specifically in mind when searching for new directors: sector expertise.

How much work the new SEC’s new disclosure rules regarding risk and compensation will require depends on the company, experts say.

Certain directors at big pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies will have to accept less pay under new rules imposed by their employer, the owner of two teaching hospitals aligned with Harvard Medical School.

The financial crisis made risk management one of the biggest issues last year for boards.

Deloitte Vice Chairman Thomas Flanagan is liable for breaking the accounting firm’s partnership agreement by trading in clients’ stocks and options, a Delaware judge has ruled.