securities
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It all started when three MIT students put together a presentation for their Network Security Class at MIT about their findings regarding the security vulnerabilities of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA) Charlie Card and C
Last week Ralph R. Cioffi and Matthew M. Tannin, both former hedge fund managers for Bear Stearns, surrendered to federal agents and were charged with nine counts of securities, mail and wire fraud. Law.com bloggers and co-hosts, J. Craig W
Blackwater Worldwide is the largest private security firm protecting U.S. diplomats in Iraq and they face a number of allegations including the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians. Join Law.com blogger J. Craig Williams as he takes a clos
Bombarded by technology and issues of backdating stock options and fraud, how can General Counsel be an expert in everything? In this show, we discuss the popularity of hiring part-time GCs and the new role of the GC as the ‘superhero’ of t
E-Discovery Comes of Age, Right In Time For The Holidays If you've been in business long enough to remember the hullabaloo over computers' supposed inability to deal with any date after 2000, then you may pause slightly when you read about
Businesses who have fended off lawsuits over disability access can take heart in last week's decision in Gunther v. Lin from the Fourth District Court of Appeal here in California. Now don't start flame-out comments, here, there are bounty-
The Justice Department and SEC are serious, investigating companies for falsifying documents and as a result, lying to shareholders about what stock option awards cost the company. Criminal and civil charges are being filed! Even corporate
Listen up buyers and sellers of businesses: be careful what you sell and what you buy. A recent case decided by the court of appeals here in Orange County warns us that contracts that sell more than can be sold are void. In Strategix, Ltd.
Assistant Professor of Law Paul M. Secunda of the University of Mississippi School of Law takes a look at last week's law blogs. Give a look-see and tip your hat!
Oil well drilling can be a dangerous job. As a consequence of the danger, several types of contracts exist that allocate the risk differently, and allocate it between the parties differently. The adage "the big print giveth and the small pri
Indiana is just now catching up to California . The Midwestern state just passed a law requiring businesses to notify their customers in the event personal identity data has been stolen. California has had such a law in place since 2002. In
Sports injuries are usually barred by the doctrine of assumption of the risk . In other words, if you elect to play, you have to expect to get hurt. There are a number of exceptions to that rule, and one encountered most frequently in skiin
My friend the jury coordinator warns of this scam, apparently active in the area (reprinted with permission from Snopes): "Here's a new twist scammers are using to commit identity theft: the jury duty scam. Here's how it works: The scammer
DocuMinute.com (that website now responds with a "Cannot find server") has been sued by the California Attorney General for sending bogus mailings to businesses seeking a $100.00 to $175.00 fee for supposed government compliance with shareh
For the past 20 years, Wall Street brokers have hired white-shoe Wall Street law firms to render fairness opinions for the boards of directors and shareholders involved with mega-transactions. It all started with a little-known 1985 Delawar
Regular readers will know that I'm being sarcastic with that headline, but the trouble with sarcasm is that it almost always has a grain of truth in it. This sarcastic headline refers to this grain of truth about a man who's suing Apple ove
The Legal Talk Network 's Coast to Coast , with my co-host, Robert Ambrogi brings into focus a discussion of the Patriot Act up for debate as some of the provisions are set to expire December 31st. Although designed to give federal law enfo
The holiday season is upon us, and your plans include going to grandmother's house over the hill and through the woods , but like other modern travelers, you're planning on taking an airplane flight . And you're dreading it. You know what t
If you're involved in either a shareholder class action suit or a derivative suit, there's a good primer available on how to handle them if you're on the corporate side, and how not to, if you're on the plaintiff's side. In the just-decided
Farmers v. Fish California ranchers, farmers and loggers sued the California Fish and Game Commission this week over the state’s protection of Coho salmon in northern California rivers. The suit claims that the CFGC lacked adequate informat