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   "text": "Without a workable duty of oversight, corporate directors who seek to comply with the oversight duty lack meaningful guidance about the conduct expected of them.",
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   "text": "Courts often provide very specific language about the standard of conduct expected of directors, but lawyers do not sufficiently communicate that expected conduct to directors.",
   "abstract": "Professors Johnson & Garvis show in an empirical study that courts often provide very specific language regarding the appropriate standard of conduct for directors.17 However, their study highlights that lawyers do not sufficiently communicate to directors what conduct is expected of them.",
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   "text": "Increasing oversight liability would give courts an opportunity to clarify the oversight doctrine, so that it could evolve into a mature and coherent doctrine rather than remaining immature and incoherent.",
   "abstract": "With an increase in liability, courts would also have an opportunity to clarify the oversight doctrine.",
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