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#MeToo movement finds an unlikely champion in Wall Street with the new ‘Weinstein clause’

  • Written by Elizabeth C. Tippett, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Oregon

If you were worried that the #MeToo movement might fade away, fear not. It has been carved into one of the most immovable objects in human history.

Legal boilerplate.

And not just any boilerplate. But the language in giant merger agreements, used when one company is buying out another company.

Basically, corporate lawyers have been adding a...

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