Of Breach of Fiduciary Duty This article examines four recurring indicia that courts consistently associate with breaches of fiduciary duty: self-dealing and secret profits, misappropriation or misuse of funds, manipulation of financial reporting and compensation structures, and the usurpation of corporate opportunities. Introduction Fiduciary duty cases rarely turn on abstract principles alone. Instead, courts look for concrete patterns of conduct that reveal whether a fiduciary has placed personal interests ahead of the party to whom loyalty is owed. In litigation, breaches of fiduciary duty often emerge through identifiable financial and operational red flags: undisclosed conflicts of interest, unexplained transfers of…