Month: September 2013

The SEC, Judicial Skepticism and Salinas

  Here’s my handout on these topics: FINRA CLE SuperCourse – September 2013   Speaking on Friday in New York: Network of Trial Law Firms...

Weekend: GCs on Boards and Gin in Ice

 Notes For the Weekend:   I tend to agree:  No, General Counsels Should Not Be On The Board.  The conflicts can be too great.  GCs...

SEC Game-Time Program

Can’t tell the players without a program.   This is a handy graphic guide (via @WSJ) to the persons, entities, events and outcomes in SEC enforcement...

Mine Blast Plea: Dust, Documents and Deaths

As the  article (via @Law360) points out, Ex-Massey Exec Gets 42 Months In Mine Blast Case this Massey mining manager pleaded to “pre-notifying” about MSHA...

Edge Of The Cliff

Don’t argue with your spouse on the edge of a cliff. If you do, your case (or that of your spouse) may end up like...

The Rise (and Triumph?) of the Adjuncts

Here’s a story (via @TheAtlantic) about a study from Northwestern University concluding that tenured professors make worse teachers. This was a study of undergraduate freshmen. ...

W.H. Auden: “Detective Story”

From  W.H. Auden (1907-1973), a poem about crime (fictional and real): Detective Story by W.H. Auden For who is ever quite without his landscape, The...

Civil Lessons From Criminal Trials (on YouTube)

Criminal Trials.  Civil Lessons. This recent talk on Civil Lessons From Criminal Trials  is primarily directed to internal counsel; what they should think about when hiring...