1343 ABA Journal Securities Law articles.
General counsels are overloaded with COVID-19 emails and webinar invites
Corporate clients are inundated with emails and webinar invitations from law firms offering information on the novel coronavirus, according to…
Mar 26, 2020 4:36 PM CDT
Mar 26, 2020 9:24 AM CDT
“The whistleblower often comes to us in pretty bad shape,” attorney Stephen Kohn says. “He’s at risk to be killed [in his profession]. It’s our job to get those bandages on, get him back to health and have him walk out in good condition.”
Mar 26, 2020 9:24 AM CDT
Texas Southern University president leaves school with no blame for alleged law school misconduct
Texas Southern University is parting ways with its president without any claims of wrongdoing, which is…
Feb 21, 2020 4:50 PM CST
From daily happiness levels at work to reframing how you think about competition, brand expert and lawyer Katy Goshtasbi offers ways for lawyers stay on top when it comes to business development—whether it’s their own brand or their firm’s brand.
Nov 21, 2019 6:30 AM CST
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Sidley Austin and Deloitte are among five professional firms agreeing to pay $220 million to settle claims for aiding securities sales by a now-defunct investment firm accused of operating as…
Jul 11, 2019 1:22 PM CDT
A federal appeals court has ruled that Greenberg Traurig is immune from liability in a lawsuit by investors who lost money in a Ponzi scheme perpetrated by a client.
The…
Apr 19, 2019 7:00 AM CDT
The Hertz Corp. has sued its former general counsel and two other executives in an effort to claw back $70 million in incentive and severance pay for the group’s alleged…
Apr 12, 2019 12:03 PM CDT
Apr 10, 2019 1:20 PM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that an investment banking director can be liable for emailing alleged false statements to prospective investors, even though he sent the emails at the…
Mar 27, 2019 11:40 AM CDT
The ABA Business Law Section released a major report on digital assets and cryptocurrency regulation on Wednesday.
The 353-page document titled “Digital and Digitized Assets: Federal and State Jurisdictional…
Mar 15, 2019 4:45 PM CDT Apple’s former global corporate-law chief has been charged with insider trading. Gene Daniel Levoff, 45, allegedly used nonpublic information to trade in Apple stock, according to press releases by the…
Feb 14, 2019 11:37 AM CST Feb 11, 2019 8:10 AM CSTApple’s former top corporate lawyer charged with insider trading
Building blockchain expertise into a practice that pays
Blockchain's a buzzword, but what does it mean? In this episode of the Modern Law Library, our guests James A. Cox and Mark W. Rasmussen give a breakdown of what blockchain is, the emerging legal issues the technology is prompting, and why Jones Day thinks that it's an important emerging practice area.
