Jones Walker’s “Know Your Standards: The Importance of Accurate Proxy Disclosure and Application of Quorum and Voting Standards” provides an excellent overview and tutorial on the scarcely resourced but very important topics of shareholder meeting quorum and voting standards and associated disclosure. In addition to explaining the governing criteria, standards, and terminology for director elections and other matters with reference to the current corporate laws of Delaware, Texas, Nevada, and Louisiana, the memo includes two appendices – one summarizing the default quorum standards and whether and under what circumstance deviations from the default standards are permitted, and another summarizing the various default voting standards and the treatment of abstentions and broker non-votes, under these states’ laws.