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LAWSON ET AL. v. FMR LLC ET AL.
After the collapse of Enron Corporation Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002. This was to safeguard investors in public companies and restore trust in the financial
markets. Team D chose the LAWSON v. FMR LLC. case to explain the governance principles
of regulatory compliance requirements using the IRAC brief method. In this paper Team D has
also provided the determined method for managing the legal risk arising from regulatory
compliance issues.
IRAC Brief
Issue: This case is, in essence, an issue of defining a protected class. It bares the question
