Federal District Court Judge Jed Rakoff shook up the securities bar with his widely reported rejection of a settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Citigroup. The decision and order has thrown into turmoil decades of what Judge Rakoff sees as shoddy enforcement practice. It’s nicely laid out on the PorterWright Federal Securities blog, […]
It happens all the time. A divorce lawyer calls us and says his client is thinking of suing her husband for divorce, but knows very little about the family’s finances. What are the sources of income? Where is the money invested? Does the husband have anything hidden in companies she doesn’t know about? After years […]
The world is getting smaller in many ways, including for fact finders looking to get information about companies. Sometimes, the company across the street will file more information about itself halfway around the world than it will in its own jurisdiction. With a computer or a good person on the ground far away, the information […]
This story on the Huffington Post sneeringly treats a new offering in the financial world: negative publicity insurance. The policy will be offered by a division of AIG, and will give companies in crisis access to PR damage-control specialists Burson-Marsteller and Porter Novelli. Why is this a story anyone should feel negative about? The fact […]
Now that Steve Jobs is gone, attention turns to Apple’s Board of Directors (1), a group that’s been criticized in the past for being too deferential to Jobs, as made clear in this Wall Street Journal Story. Steve Jobs was a business genius, but are these directors good at doing their jobs to inform shareholders […]
Police have arrested another suspected rogue trader at a big investment bank, a man named Kweku Adoboli who is alleged to have lost $2 billion for UBS in unauthorized deals. A story about Adoboli in the Wall Street Journal describes him a “well educated” and “polite,” which must fall into the category of Dog Bites Man. […]
Getting fired is never pleasant, and it’s even worse when it comes as a complete surprise. Getting fired as a surprise while you’re driving your car must be really awful. That’s how Yahoo! Inc. reportedly fired its CEO Carol Bartz on Tuesday. Rarely is the way someone leaves an employer reported in such detail, […]
Law schools have known for years that they turn out lawyers without training on how to gather facts. What’s changed recently is that law schools are starting to think this isn’t such a good idea. My colleague Peter Tillers, with whom I teach a course in fact investigation, has rounded up some of the most […]
A quick reflection on the executive at Allstate, who according to the Wall Street Journal lost his job in part because of profanity-laced comments about a superior to colleagues in a bar. How did the Journal get the story? Not by crawling around blogs, not by looking at the executive’s Facebook page, but by old-fashioned […]
This blog takes no position on the merits of a motion filed to disqualify Kasowitz from representing plaintiffs in a lawsuit against SAC Capital Advisors and others. We haven’t even read the motion, but are relying solely on a report from New Jersey state court on it via Bloomberg. The fact pattern reads like an […]
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