The panel discussion I was on yesterday (earlier) can be found archived at Bruce Cartons Securities Docket. For much more, see this sites categories on Corporate Governance and Class Actions....

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) gave a floor speech in the Senate on Tuesday challenging the merits of the nomination of Eric Holder to be the next attorney general. His comments are here. Focus of Specters criticism: Holders review or lack...

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is the first committee out of the 111th Congressional gate to hold confirmation hearings on President-elect Obamas cabinet nominees. (More accurately: pre-confirmation hearings on anticipated nominees.) On Thursday, HELP hears from former...

Per this account; earlier here and here....

Sending Wall Street To Jail: major source of criminal liability could be over-rosy business statements meant to shore up customer, supplier confidence [Roger Parloff, Fortune] Famed Texas injury lawyer Mark Lanier addresses Prof. Jon Hansons torts class at Harvard...

I was reminded recently of this remarkable story, from Woodward Bernstein's excellent The Brethren. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Court's obscenity doctrine essentially called for case-by-case...

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Via Tony Mauro, we learn something that might interest the law students in the VC readership: The first-year law school grades of Harvard Law School Dean (and SG nominee) Elena...

(Decided to repost this, because I originally posted it over a holiday weekend.)...

The Minnesota lawyers at Powerline have been consistently precise in their coverage of the Minnesota election recount process. If I did not read their posts, I would have little idea...