Fire your accountant, financial advisor and lawyer too?
A thought-provoking column in the Wall Street Journal here that argues in favor of routine changes of auditors got me thinking. If we should change our auditors on the grounds that they get too close to us and are afraid to displease us for…
Is There a Spin Doctor in the House?
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…
Trial Ethics: A Template Can Save Your Life
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…
Flashback: Can you get me someone’s phone records? Hell no!
Following is an entry from our firm's website originally published in September 2009 and, we think, timely.
Plenty of people - even sophisticated lawyers - sometimes ask us in the course of an investigation: “Can you get me his phone or…
