Corporate Governance FORUM ARCHIVE
Colorado's other revenge-initiative war, and the NYT By Walter Olson, 05-08-2008 New SEC nominee By Walter Olson, 05-06-2008 DC Circuit argument over constitutionality of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board By Ted Frank, 04-16-2008 Shorting Stein By Walter Olson, 04-14-2008 Legal Aid, to subprime borrowers' rescue? By Walter Olson, 04-14-2008 Profs. Lerner and Yahya on Sarbanes-Oxley By Walter Olson, 04-06-2008 "Premised largely on a repudiation of Occam's razor" By Walter Olson, 04-02-2008 Scott: U.S. capital markets continue slipping By Walter Olson, 03-27-2008 Enron prosecution By Walter Olson, 03-19-2008 Bear Stearns thoughts By Ted Frank, 03-18-2008 "Reforming Securities Litigation Reform: A Proposal for Restructuring the Relationship Between Public and Private Enforcement of Rule 10b-5" By Ted Frank, 03-16-2008 Calpers as sovereign wealth fund By Walter Olson, 03-07-2008 NY high court OKs derivative suits against LLPs By Walter Olson, 02-15-2008 Eugene Scalia on union pension fund activism By Ted Frank, 01-23-2008 SEC nixes proxy access By Walter Olson, 12-03-2007 White-collar attorney privilege waivers By Walter Olson, 10-15-2007 Richard Epstein on the Stoneridge saga By Walter Olson, 10-11-2007 Doug Baird vs. Lynn LoPucki By Walter Olson, 10-10-2007 Richard Epstein podcast on Stoneridge By Walter Olson, 10-05-2007 Prof. Bainbridge on Stoneridge By Walter Olson, 10-04-2007 The Skilling appeal By Ted Frank, 09-23-2007 Private equity firms hiring in-house lawyers By Walter Olson, 09-14-2007 Corporate governance law By Walter Olson, 08-31-2007 Strine vs. Steyn By Walter Olson, 08-03-2007 SarbOx and Spitzenfreude By Walter Olson, 07-31-2007 Conrad Black and the blocked legal fees By Walter Olson, 07-27-2007 "It's time to repeal Sarbanes Oxley" By Ted Frank, 07-24-2007 Extraterritoriality: another Canadian view By Walter Olson, 07-23-2007 The Conrad Black Saga Part III By Moin Yahya, 07-18-2007 The Conrad Black Saga Part II By Moin Yahya, 07-17-2007 The Conrad Black Saga Part I By Moin Yahya, 07-17-2007 Securities class action filings By Walter Olson, 07-14-2007 Standards-based financial regulation? By Walter Olson, 07-11-2007 SOx reading list By Walter Olson, 06-25-2007 Bainbridge on Sarbanes-Oxley By Walter Olson, 06-22-2007 Plea bargaining for the UK? By Walter Olson, 06-18-2007 Lerach to quit? By James R. Copland, 05-31-2007 Ted on the SEC and Stoneridge By Walter Olson, 05-31-2007 Sniping at SEC's Cox By Walter Olson, 05-30-2007 Pollock on Sarbanes-Oxley By Ted Frank, 05-17-2007 Poor Ben Stein By Walter Olson, 05-16-2007 Rebuff to Grasso case By Walter Olson, 05-11-2007 Prof. Bainbridge on Sarbox By Walter Olson, 05-09-2007 "Are U.S. IPOs D.O.A.?" By Walter Olson, 05-03-2007 "To fix accounting, we need to fix litigation." By Ted Frank, 04-30-2007 "The Future of Wall Street: Can New York Stay On Top?" By Walter Olson, 04-28-2007 Sarbanes-Oxley and mens rea By Walter Olson, 04-25-2007 Letting firms contract around investor suits? By Walter Olson, 04-23-2007 Say on pay By Larry Ribstein, 04-21-2007 Dual class, indeed, at the NY Times By Walter Olson, 04-20-2007 "Are U.S. IPOs DOA?" By Walter Olson, 04-13-2007 April 20: Is Excessive Regulation and Litigation Eroding U.S. Financial Competitiveness? By Ted Frank, 04-12-2007 Enron Task Force By Walter Olson, 04-11-2007 Equity exodus: the role of sanctions? By Walter Olson, 04-10-2007 DOJ's McNulty memo By Walter Olson, 04-09-2007 Conrad Black trial By Ted Frank, 04-08-2007 SOx and audit certification By Ted Frank, 04-07-2007 The SEC studies regulating corporate voting By Larry Ribstein, 03-22-2007 Steyn on Conrad Black trial By Walter Olson, 03-20-2007 Conrad Black trial By Ted Frank, 03-19-2007 Chamber weighs in on financial competitiveness By Walter Olson, 03-14-2007 Indiana Suit of National Importance By Michael Krauss, 03-12-2007 The morning after the backdating scandal By Larry Ribstein, 03-08-2007 "Corporate Criminality: Legal, Ethical, and Managerial Implications" By Ted Frank, 03-07-2007 Backdating and 9/11 muckraking By Larry Ribstein, 03-07-2007 Sarbanes-Oxley employee whistleblowing, cont'd By Walter Olson, 03-02-2007 The backdating prosecutions continue their random walk By Larry Ribstein, 03-01-2007 Backdating scandal By Walter Olson, 02-28-2007 That's so not fair By Walter Olson, 02-27-2007 New featured column: "The Capital Market Crack-Up" By Walter Olson, 02-14-2007 Was backdating material? By Larry Ribstein, 02-10-2007 Merrill Lynch and CSFB appeal Enron ruling to Fifth Circuit By Ted Frank, 02-09-2007 New York, "regional" financial capital-to-be? By Walter Olson, 02-09-2007 Pick your poison: class actions or corporate criminal prosecutions? By Larry Ribstein, 02-07-2007 U.S. capital market regulation: a view from "Red Ken" By Walter Olson, 02-06-2007 Speculating on backdating By Larry Ribstein, 02-02-2007 WSJ on Sen. Schumer By Walter Olson, 01-30-2007 New featured column: Nicole Gelinas on Wall Street woes By Walter Olson, 01-30-2007 McNulty memo under scrutiny By Walter Olson, 01-29-2007 The vote-buying "scandal" By Larry Ribstein, 01-26-2007 Sen. Schumer and Mayor Bloomberg call for reform By Ted Frank, 01-26-2007 Around the web, January 25 By Ted Frank, 01-25-2007 Spitzer as deregulator By Larry Ribstein, 01-23-2007 Shareholder access By Ted Frank, 01-21-2007 Apple to consumers: the accountants made us do it By Larry Ribstein, 01-20-2007 NY financial competitiveness By Walter Olson, 01-19-2007 Insider trading and consultants By Larry Ribstein, 01-16-2007 Slanted reporting on a new accounting rule By Larry Ribstein, 01-14-2007 The Apple investigation continues By Larry Ribstein, 01-12-2007 More on Nardelli By Ted Frank, 01-11-2007 Kirkendall on Hueston on Gladwell on Skilling and Enron By Ted Frank, 01-10-2007 Apple and backdating By Larry Ribstein, 01-10-2007 Nocera takes on Gladwell re Skilling By Ted Frank, 01-06-2007 Nardelli's severance By Ted Frank, 01-04-2007 A monument to honor Sarbanes and Oxley? By Walter Olson, 01-04-2007 "Democrats: There Is Such a Thing as Too Much Regulation" By Ted Frank, 01-03-2007 Malcolm Gladwell on Enron and Skilling By Ted Frank, 01-03-2007 "The Capital Market Crack-Up" By Walter Olson, 12-31-2006 "Martha Stewart's Legal Troubles" By Walter Olson, 12-21-2006 Ken Starr on SOX By Larry Ribstein, 12-16-2006 "The SEC Takes a First Step Toward Reform" By Ted Frank, 12-15-2006 The so-called rising wealth-disparity By Larry Ribstein, 12-14-2006 The government relents on the Thompson memo By Larry Ribstein, 12-13-2006 Jeff Skilling By Ted Frank, 12-08-2006 SarbOx vs. NYC's future, cont'd By Walter Olson, 12-07-2006 "Enron -- the musical" By Walter Olson, 12-06-2006 Thompson memorandum of global warming By Larry Ribstein, 12-04-2006 Parade of new blogs By Walter Olson, 12-04-2006 Paulson report, cont'd By Walter Olson, 12-04-2006 New Times column -- "US capital markets must learn from London" By Walter Olson, 12-01-2006 More on the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation By Ted Frank, 12-01-2006 Diller: NY Times "loony" on executive pay By Walter Olson, 12-01-2006 Justice Department backing off Thompson Memo? By Ted Frank, 11-30-2006 Committee on Capital Markets Regulation Report By Ted Frank, 11-30-2006 Thompson Memo Event @ Heritage By Ted Frank, 11-29-2006 Richard Epstein on deferred prosecution agreements By Walter Olson, 11-28-2006 The declining benefits of listing in the US By Larry Ribstein, 11-28-2006 Reg FD and the new market for inside information By Larry Ribstein, 11-27-2006 The WSJ on "shareholder democracy" By Larry Ribstein, 11-27-2006 SOx reform a Bloomberg priority By Walter Olson, 11-26-2006 Manne on Friedman and corporate social responsibility By Larry Ribstein, 11-24-2006 Alan Murray on "shareholder democracy" By Larry Ribstein, 11-22-2006 An infuriatingly stupid Kinsley essay By Ted Frank, 11-21-2006 SOX and executive compensation By Larry Ribstein, 11-20-2006 Pelosi: we're open to SOx reform By Walter Olson, 11-16-2006 UK shareholder suits, cont'd By Walter Olson, 11-15-2006 NYSE's John Thain By Walter Olson, 11-12-2006 Is the SEC about to shrink SOX? By Larry Ribstein, 11-10-2006 General counsels as DoJ satraps? By Walter Olson, 11-07-2006 NYC panel next Mon.: Thompson memo & the right to counsel By Walter Olson, 11-07-2006 "New York AG Presses Companies to Stop Paying Indicted Employees' Legal Bills" By Walter Olson, 11-02-2006 Schumer & Bloomberg join the culture war against regulation By Larry Ribstein, 11-01-2006 Grundfast on backdating By Ted Frank, 11-01-2006 NY Times on future reforms By Ted Frank, 10-30-2006 Are the securities laws about to shrink? By Larry Ribstein, 10-29-2006 The "shareholder democracy" scam By Larry Ribstein, 10-27-2006 Eliot Spitzer, derivative plaintiff By Larry Ribstein, 10-21-2006 The shocking Grasso decision By Larry Ribstein, 10-20-2006 Lockyer's felony charges against Patricia Dunn By Walter Olson, 10-20-2006 Gretchen Morgenson on pay consultants By Larry Ribstein, 10-15-2006 Steve Jobs: backdating criminal? By Larry Ribstein, 10-11-2006 Antitrust, takeovers and private equity By Larry Ribstein, 10-11-2006 Securities litigation receding By Walter Olson, 10-11-2006 "Banks’ $30bn Enron question" By Ted Frank, 10-09-2006 Gretchen Morgenson vs. the facts of mutual fund voting By Larry Ribstein, 10-08-2006 The Dunn indictment By Ted Frank, 10-05-2006 Gretchen Morgenson: Libertarian? By Larry Ribstein, 10-01-2006 Fastow's sentence By Ted Frank, 09-26-2006 The lesson from H-P By Larry Ribstein, 09-26-2006 Gretchen Morgenson: blowing hot air on natural gas By Larry Ribstein, 09-24-2006 Bainbridge on a roll By Ted Frank, 09-22-2006 What should we do about SOX 404? By Larry Ribstein, 09-20-2006 KPMG as a cautionary tale By Larry Ribstein, 09-20-2006 News flash: inside info often reflected in stock trades By Walter Olson, 09-20-2006 UK plans to liberalize scope for derivative suits By Walter Olson, 09-19-2006 Smith/Bainbridge saluted By Walter Olson, 09-18-2006 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Thompson memo By Ted Frank, 09-12-2006 Featured discussion (Smith/Bainbridge) now underway By Walter Olson, 09-12-2006 Bill of attainder dept. By Walter Olson, 09-11-2006 Gretchen Morgenson on mutual fund voting By Larry Ribstein, 09-10-2006 Thompson memo By Walter Olson, 09-08-2006 Spitzer to Greenberg: "never mind" By Larry Ribstein, 09-08-2006 Jury selection and the Enron verdicts By Walter Olson, 09-06-2006 Exploring the assumptions underlying the backdating story By Larry Ribstein, 09-04-2006 Ben Stein on management buyouts By Larry Ribstein, 09-03-2006 The Enron Task Force's dirty little secret By Tom Kirkendall, 09-01-2006 The backdating molehill and its mounting costs By Larry Ribstein, 08-29-2006 Gretchen Morgenson reporting/opining on insider trading By Larry Ribstein, 08-27-2006 Collective corporate scienter By Walter Olson, 08-26-2006 Selling short: the Cuban angle By James R. Copland, 08-25-2006 Pat Hynes leaving Milberg Weiss By James R. Copland, 08-25-2006 Was Grasso worth it? who decides? By Larry Ribstein, 08-24-2006 Grundfest supports Olis By Larry Ribstein, 08-21-2006 Gretchen Morgenson: better answer those letters! By Larry Ribstein, 08-20-2006 Descending to the pink sheets By Walter Olson, 08-17-2006 Deprivation of honest services By Walter Olson, 08-16-2006 Criminalizing backdating, continued By Larry Ribstein, 08-10-2006 Peter Wallison: "The Canary in the Coal Mine" By Ted Frank, 08-09-2006 Gretchen Morgenson on Grasso: commenting or reporting? By Larry Ribstein, 08-05-2006 Journalistic accounting By Larry Ribstein, 07-30-2006 Gretchen Morgenson: Do stock options cause crime? By Larry Ribstein, 07-23-2006 Criminalizing executive compensation By Larry Ribstein, 07-21-2006 Katie Couric dodges the bullet By Larry Ribstein, 07-20-2006 Europeans skeptical of Sarbanes-Oxley By Walter Olson, 07-18-2006 The options scandals By Larry Ribstein, 07-15-2006 The mail fraud charade By Walter Olson, 07-12-2006 Stock options and insider trading By Larry Ribstein, 07-11-2006 Gretchen Morgenson and the obfuscation game By Larry Ribstein, 07-09-2006 Dubious documentaries, cont'd By Walter Olson, 07-09-2006 Ken Lay's death By Larry Ribstein, 07-05-2006 The Lay-Skilling forfeiture motion By Tom Kirkendall, 07-01-2006 "Vioxx and Corporate Apologies" By Ted Frank, 06-29-2006 Judge: Thompson memo imperils right to counsel By Walter Olson, 06-29-2006 The SEC's hedge fund rule: another rule bites the dust By Larry Ribstein, 06-24-2006 Mark Cuban, insider trading, and fairness By Larry Ribstein, 06-23-2006 The higher costs of litigating everything under SOX By Larry Ribstein, 06-17-2006 What explains insider trading laws? By Larry Ribstein, 06-13-2006 The corporate governance industry By Larry Ribstein, 06-13-2006 Henry Manne on behavioral finance and securities regulation By Larry Ribstein, 06-13-2006 Delaware high court on Disney compensation By Walter Olson, 06-09-2006 Hollywood and business By Larry Ribstein, 06-06-2006 Some questions about the Enron trial By Larry Ribstein, 06-06-2006 Sox and Private Equity By Larry Ribstein, 06-03-2006 Paying indicted employees' legal fees By Walter Olson, 06-01-2006 Some weekend reading on the trials and regulation of business By Larry Ribstein, 05-30-2006 Lay and Skilling convicted By Walter Olson, 05-25-2006 Pay no attention to that gigantic leech on your back; you'll get used to it By Larry Ribstein, 05-25-2006 The SEC's pathetic response to the problems with SOX By Larry Ribstein, 05-17-2006 SOX and foreign whistleblowers By Larry Ribstein, 05-13-2006 Fine lines for prosecutors and businessmen By Larry Ribstein, 05-09-2006 The GAO's SOX report: buyer beware By Larry Ribstein, 05-09-2006 Blawg Review #56: Sex, Virtual Weddings, and Baseball By James R. Copland, 05-08-2006 Gretchen Morgenson on corporate governance By Larry Ribstein, 05-07-2006 A new SOX for the smallest firms? By Larry Ribstein, 05-02-2006 Gretchen Morgenson's busy day By Larry Ribstein, 05-01-2006 The special problems of criminalizing agency costs By Larry Ribstein, 05-01-2006 Explaining corporate agency costs By Tom Kirkendall, 04-27-2006 "Rude Awakening at the SEC" By Ted Frank, 04-25-2006 The SEC is having internal controls problems By Larry Ribstein, 04-25-2006 Sundays with Gretchen By Larry Ribstein, 04-23-2006 Corporations as prosecutors' helpers By Larry Ribstein, 04-22-2006 Enron: business decisions as crimes By Larry Ribstein, 04-20-2006 Fisking Gretchen Morgenson By Walter Olson, 04-18-2006 The snipers aim at a small firm exemption from SOX By Larry Ribstein, 04-17-2006 Disclosing mutual fund manager compensation By Larry Ribstein, 04-16-2006 The wacky campaign against short-selling By Larry Ribstein, 04-15-2006 Hank Greenberg says "you couldn't build an AIG today" By Larry Ribstein, 04-15-2006 Pitt on what to do about SOX By Larry Ribstein, 04-13-2006 The Sentencing Commission deletes comment on waiver of privileges By Larry Ribstein, 04-12-2006 Do mutual funds need independent directors? By Larry Ribstein, 04-12-2006 Hollywood stars meet the SEC By Larry Ribstein, 04-10-2006 The SEC gets slapped again on independent directors By Larry Ribstein, 04-08-2006 Bainbridge on "outsider trading" By James R. Copland, 04-07-2006 Is the SOX small firm exemption doomed? By Larry Ribstein, 04-05-2006 The US as the new NJ By Larry Ribstein, 04-03-2006 The emerging prosecution scandal By Larry Ribstein, 03-31-2006 Al Gore's Voodoo Economics By Jonathan B. Wilson, 03-31-2006 Lipitor Lawsuit By Sam Munson, 03-29-2006 Congress' insider trading By Larry Ribstein, 03-29-2006 Indemnifying white collar defendants By Larry Ribstein, 03-28-2006 Politics and mutual fund voting By Larry Ribstein, 03-28-2006 Dabit and federalism By Ted Frank, 03-22-2006 Attempted SLUSA loophole closed By Ted Frank, 03-21-2006 Quattrone conviction overturned By Ted Frank, 03-21-2006 Lessons from Refco about SOX By Larry Ribstein, 03-16-2006 Nasdaq, LSE and SOX By Larry Ribstein, 03-16-2006 Shareholder democracy and executive compensation By Larry Ribstein, 03-16-2006 Sarbanes-Oxley at AEI By Larry Ribstein, 03-14-2006 Lessons from bankruptcy fees By Larry Ribstein, 03-09-2006 How to get more securities research By Larry Ribstein, 03-08-2006 A SOX amputation won't work By Larry Ribstein, 03-06-2006 Still more on dumping and suing By Larry Ribstein, 03-03-2006 Short 'em, then sue 'em By Walter Olson, 03-03-2006 Pour encourager les autres By Walter Olson, 03-01-2006 Should a court enforce a contract that permits lying? By Larry Ribstein, 02-27-2006 Featured Discussion ("Selling Short") has begun By Walter Olson, 02-27-2006 Sarbanes-Oxley: is it just about small firms? By Larry Ribstein, 02-27-2006 The constitutionality of Sarbanes-Oxley By Ted Frank, 02-23-2006 PSLRA at age 10 -- where next? By Walter Olson, 02-16-2006 "Essentially, owning his own plaintiff" By Walter Olson, 02-13-2006 Shareholder suits: recycling cash, minus 30 percent By Walter Olson, 02-09-2006 Constitutionality of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board By Ted Frank, 02-09-2006 Yahya, "Dumping and Suing" By Walter Olson, 02-06-2006 Revamp to U.K. company law By Walter Olson, 01-31-2006 Shareholder suits target corporate lawyers By Walter Olson, 01-30-2006 Today's Sarbanes-Oxley reading By Ted Frank, 01-27-2006 Steve Jobs, Disney, Pixar, and Apple By Ted Frank, 01-26-2006 "Spitzer's Targets Use His Tactics" By Ted Frank, 01-26-2006 Sarbox compliance By Walter Olson, 01-20-2006 Enron: Lay, Skillings go to trial By Walter Olson, 01-12-2006 Bainbridge vs. Nocera By Walter Olson, 12-08-2005 Ribstein on hedge fund regulation By Ted Frank, 11-10-2005 "Securities regulation: end the dual approach" By Walter Olson, 11-03-2005 Sarbox discussed By Walter Olson, 10-28-2005 A Valentine to Sarbanes-Oxley By Walter Olson, 10-21-2005 Shareholder Activism and Institutional Investors By James R. Copland, 09-12-2005 Yet another Sarbanes-Oxley problem By Walter Olson, 09-07-2005 Siebel Systems' Regulation FD Case Dismissed By Jonathan B. Wilson, 09-06-2005 Disney-thon By Walter Olson, 08-11-2005 Sarbanes-Oxley is 3 By Ted Frank, 07-29-2005 Ebbers sentence By Ted Frank, 07-16-2005 An Ounce Of Prevention By Lyle Roberts, 07-12-2005 Will Milberg Weiss Become the 'Enron' of the Plaintiffs' Bar? By Jonathan B. Wilson, 07-11-2005 Punch and CounterPunch - Redux By Jonathan B. Wilson, 06-29-2005 Joel Bakan, "The Corporation" By Walter Olson, 06-29-2005 The Travails of Richard Scrushy - Part II By Jonathan B. Wilson, 06-28-2005 The Shoe is on the Other Foot By Martin F Grace, 06-27-2005 Chris Cox endorsed By Walter Olson, 06-26-2005 SOx compliance costs By Walter Olson, 06-24-2005 The Travails of Richard Scrushy By Jonathan B. Wilson, 06-23-2005 Tell Us What You Really Think By Martin F Grace, 06-21-2005 Securities Class Actions Score Big Payday for Lawyers By Jonathan B. Wilson, 06-17-2005 Andersen reactions By Walter Olson, 06-01-2005 High court overturns Arthur Andersen conviction By Walter Olson, 05-31-2005 Compliance lawyers in clover By Walter Olson, 05-26-2005 The smartest guys in the room By Walter Olson, 05-24-2005 Sarbox woes By Walter Olson, 05-18-2005 SOX and Lease Accounting By Ted Frank, 05-04-2005 Bill Lerach, screen star By Walter Olson, 04-26-2005 Technology companies and accounting lawsuits By Walter Olson, 04-05-2005 Corporate governance & responsibility By James R. Copland, 01-31-2005 Major pain for IT departments By Walter Olson, 01-26-2005 "Criminalizing corporate governance" By Walter Olson, 01-21-2005 ERISA suits By Walter Olson, 01-05-2005 CFOs flee Sarbox By Walter Olson, 12-01-2004 Europe discovers securities litigation By Walter Olson, 11-30-2004 Sarbanes-Oxley implementation By Walter Olson, 11-17-2004 Convictions in Enron barge case By Walter Olson, 11-06-2004 Bainbridge on the SEC in Bush 43 term 2 By James R. Copland, 11-05-2004 "Collective scienter" and business guilt By Walter Olson, 10-26-2004 Sinclair Broadcasting: Meet Trial Lawyers, Inc. By James R. Copland, 10-25-2004 Sarbanes-Oxley meets its match By Walter Olson, 10-20-2004 First Enron criminal trial By Walter Olson, 09-20-2004 Asher v. Baxter International By Ted Frank, 08-06-2004 Divestments: not a sensible way to influence corporate governance By James R. Copland, 07-23-2004 Is Mel Weiss worried? By James R. Copland, 06-21-2004 Corporate law: what to read By Walter Olson, 06-08-2004
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