Business & Corporate The Limits of Delaware Corporate Law: Internal Affairs, Federal Forum Provisions, and Sciabacucchi Joseph A. Grundfest 75(1) 1319-1399 The Securities Act of 1933 (“Securities Act”) provides for concurrent federal and state jurisdiction.
Business & Corporate Why Law Firms Collapse John Morley Law firms don’t just go bankrupt—they collapse. Like Dewey & LeBoeuf, Heller Ehrman, and Bingham McCutchen, law firms often go from apparent health to liquidation in a matter of months or even days. Almost no large law firm has ever managed to reorganize its debts in bankruptcy and survive.
Business & Corporate Confronting the Problem of Fraud on the Board Joel Edan Friedlander Recent precedents make it difficult to challenge transactions approved by a board of directors and a stockholder majority. When should such cases be filed, proceed beyond the pleading stage, and prevail? My answer is that judicial intervention should remedy and deter tortious misconduct.
Business & Corporate Protection of Client Confidential Information from Cyberattacks Is a Compelling Business and Ethical Priority for Inside and Outside Corporate Counsel E. Norman Veasey Criminal cyberattacks are increasingly rampant. The criminals who launch these attacks target law firms and businesses mercilessly—around the clock. In-house and external counsel have an urgent responsibility not only to understand the perils these attacks present but also to take defensive action.
Business & Corporate Focusing on Deterrence to Combat Financial Fraud and Protect Investors Michael H. Hurwitz This article discusses the harm to the economy and to investors caused by financial fraud and proposes concrete steps to combat such fraud through a credible policy of deterrence. Criminal prosecutions against the perpetrators of financial fraud has declined over the past decade.
Business & Corporate Uncovering the Hidden Conflicts in Securities Class Action Litigation: Lessons from the State Street Case Benjamin P. Edwards and Anthony Rickey Courts, Congress, and commentators have long worried that stockholder plaintiffs in securities and M&A litigation, and their counsel, may pursue suits that benefit themselves, rather than absent stockholders or the corporations in which they invest.
Business & Corporate The Business Lawyer at 75: Introduction Patrick T. Clendenen, Penelope L. Christophorou, and Gregory M. Duhl This volume marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of The Business Lawyer (“TBL”), the premier, peer-reviewed journal of business law scholarship published by the ABA Business Law Section.
Business & Corporate The Business Lawyer at 75 and Secured Transactions Under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code Jonathan C. Lipson and Steven O. Weise In honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of The Business Lawyer (TBL), we reviewed the roughly 400 papers published in TBL on secured transactions since inception, in 1946.
Business & Corporate Survey - Annual Survey of Judicial Developments Pertaining to Private Equity and Venture Capital Annual Survey Working Group of the Jurisprudence Subcommittee, Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee, ABA Business Law Section 75 (1) 1597-1616
Business & Corporate Survey - Cyberspace Law Cyberspace Law Committee, ABA Business Law Section 75(1) 1617-1707
Business & Corporate Survey of the Law of Cyberspace: An Introduction John A. Rothchild 75(1) 1617-1620
Business & Corporate Survey of Developments in Privacy Law Steve Snyder and Elizabeth Brusa 75(1) 1621-1636
Business & Corporate California Consumer Privacy Act: What Companies Need to Know Erin Illman and Paul Temple 75(1) 1637-1646
Business & Corporate Recent Developments in Canadian Privacy Law and the Digital Charter Imran Ahmad and Katherine Barbacki 75(1) 1647-1654
Business & Corporate To Secure, or Not Secure, Data Integrity—That Is the Question: Cybersecurity Developments Roland L. Trope 75(1) 1655-1666
Business & Corporate Location-Based Marketing, Regulation of Home-Share Platforms, and Other Developments in Section 230 Immunity Chase J. Edwards 75(1) 1667-1672
Business & Corporate Developments in the Laws Affecting Electronic Payments and Financial Services Tom Kierner, Stephen T. Middlebrook, and Sarah Jane Hughes 75(1) 1695-1707
