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If you are attending today’s Executive Compensation Disclosure Conference by webcast, remember that you need to use your Conference ID/password to access the video webcast. Your ID/password for TheCorporateCounsel.net or CompensationStandards.com will not work to access the video webcast. Here are other troubleshooting tips if you need them.

To gain access, simply go to the home page for one of the sites and follow the prominent link that sits at the top of the page. Then, you have three choices: (1) watch the panels consecutively live; (2) watch a specific panel live; or (3) watch a panel by archive (it will take 5-6 hours for a panel to be archived after it is over). Remember you are able to watch the archive of any panel from now until the end of 2007!

Conference materials are posted beneath the links for each panel. I was pretty excited to receive 20-pages of “Essential Practice Tips You Oughta Know” from the speakers – and that alone is worth the price of admission.

CLE Credit: We also have posted this list of states with the status/number of hours available for CLE credit, divided into two categories: those attending online and those attending in DC. If you are in a state for which the Conference is accredited for online CLE – please register for CLE for webcast attendance and follow the instructions there (then, approximately 3-4 weeks after the Conference, we will e-mail you a Certificate of Attendance).

Final Executive Compensation Rules Published in the Federal Register

On Friday, the SEC’s new executive compensation rules were published in the Federal Register – so they will become effective on November 7th (60 days after the date of publication), meaning triggering events for Form 8-Ks that occur on or after November 7th need to conform to the new requirements.

Compensation Standards – Our New Quarterly Print Newsletter!

In response to so many member requests for a practical print newsletter to share with their directors about executive compensation practices, we have created a new newsletter – Compensation Standards – to help directors learn the latest executive compensation developments – and to help them glean practice pointers that can assist them perform their challenging duties.

Compensation Standards is tailored for the busy director, quarterly issues that do not overload them with useless information – rather, this newsletter will provide precisely the type of information that you know they desire: practical and right-to-the-point. Plus, each issue will include timely compliance reminders to help directors avoid inadvertent violations (which also help advisors with their compliance tasks). And this newsletter is very reasonably priced – other director publications typically cost thousands! – with special discounts for companies that also are CompensationStandards.com members.

We have just posted the Fall 2006 issue of the newsletter as a free sample – so you can see how practical it is for yourself! Order this practical newsletter today!

ISS: Up for Sale?

The WSJ reports that ISS has put itself on the auction block and might fetch as much as $500 million. ISS is privately held and changed hands just a few years ago. If a sale occurs, it will be interesting to see who will now control this influential organization.