{"id":878,"date":"2013-04-30T02:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/?page_id=878"},"modified":"2013-04-30T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T03:00:22","slug":"using-the-sandusky-scandal-as-a-case-study-due-diligence-requirements-of-corporate-board-members-in-profit-and-non-profit-organizations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/podcasts\/powerpoint-presentations\/using-the-sandusky-scandal-as-a-case-study-due-diligence-requirements-of-corporate-board-members-in-profit-and-non-profit-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Sandusky Scandal as a Case Study:  Due Diligence Requirements of Corporate Board Members in Profit and Non-Profit Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: '\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">Using the Sandusky Scandal as a Case Study:<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Due Diligence Requirements of Corporate Board Members in Profit and Non-Profit Organizations<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Remarks to the Berks County Bench-Bar Conference April 17, 2013,<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: '\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\"> Reading Pennsylvania<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Power Point Presentation HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/BerksPresentation4-2013.potx\">BerksPresentation4-2013<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paper HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/DiligenceObligationsofBoardMembers2013.pdf\">DiligenceObligationsofBoardMembers2013<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ABSTRACT:<span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: '\uff2d\uff33 \u660e\u671d'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">What I would like to focus on today is the role of the University board of trustees\u2014especially the legal framework within which conduct standards are elaborated\u2014in the context of scandals like the Sandusky scandal and its aftermath.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>In particular I will focus on the obligations of the board of trustees of a university with respect to its diligence and monitoring obligations. After this introduction Part II provides an overview of fiduciary duty applicable to enterprises and focus on non-profit enterprises. Part III then considers the university, focusing on the distinct models that have arisen for university governance.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Part IV focuses on the diligence obligations of university trustees and considers recent cases, the legal framework and core issues.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>The presentation ends with a brief consideration of this framework in the context of the Sandusky scandal and the responses of the Penn State Board of Trustees from a legal perspective. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"mso-element: footnote-list;\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the Sandusky Scandal as a Case Study:\u00a0 Due Diligence Requirements of Corporate Board Members in Profit and Non-Profit Organizations &nbsp; Remarks to the Berks County Bench-Bar Conference April 17, 2013, Reading Pennsylvania Power Point Presentation HERE: BerksPresentation4-2013 Paper HERE: DiligenceObligationsofBoardMembers2013 ABSTRACT:What I would like to focus on today is the role of the University &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/podcasts\/powerpoint-presentations\/using-the-sandusky-scandal-as-a-case-study-due-diligence-requirements-of-corporate-board-members-in-profit-and-non-profit-organizations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using the Sandusky Scandal as a Case Study:  Due Diligence Requirements of Corporate Board Members in Profit and Non-Profit Organizations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":323,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-878","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/878\/revisions\/883"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backerinlaw.com\/Site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}