The week before last, on Jan. 24, University of Alberta lawprof Moin Yahya addressed a Manhattan Institute lunch crowd in New York to discuss his paper diagnosing a problem with securities class litigation — namely, cozy relations between class lawyer…

Here’s a great way to get rich — but it only works if you’re a trial lawyer, preferably a well-known one.

Here’s the idea: Short-sell a company’s stock. (For the financially unitiated: this means sell stock you don’t own in the hope that it…

My question is why the lawyers short-sell when they could buy a high-delta (delta is the change in option price from a unit cahnge in the price of the underlying stock) put option, since taking that tack would have higher expected profits. The obviou…

Overlawyered points to a study claiming some plaintiff’s attorneys are selling companies short before they sue them.

A few weeks ago I wrote about “dumping and suing” – the practice of plaintiffs and their attorneys short-selling the stock of the companies they intend to sue. Overlawyered comments that “given securities regulators’ goal of upholding what they…