I have always enjoyed having the unique voice of Christopher Hitchens on the program and hope to do so for years and years to come. Our conversation about his memoir was one of the more memorable of my decade on the...

Mac Clayton offers this perspective on KQED radio: In 1951, before Brown v. Board of Education and before Martin Luther King gave voice to his dream, my grandfather, Philip Davidson, integrated the University of Louisville. As president, he merged a...

Okay Marty, per your email to Kelly, have it Your Way: "Bud tried to explain to me that Jon Sistare should not be held accountable for making false statements in that document he signed and took an oath to because it was drafted by his attorney. I found that to be outrageous and asked him to recons ...

Taming or Protecting the Modern Corporation? Shareholder-Stakeholder Debates in a Comparative Light, by Martin Gelter, Fordham University School of Law; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In this article, I provide a...

A 78-year-old nursing home patient at Provena-Mercy Hospital in Aurora sustained stab wounds to her face, eye, and arm when she was stabbed by her roommate’s relatives. Police arrested the suspect, a 39-year-old man. Our Chicago nursing home neglect lawyers want to remind you that your loved one m ...

John Martin Fischer (UC Riverside) writes: We will have a memorial conference in honor of Paul Hoffman on Friday, December 10 at UC Riverside. The main speakers will be Jennifer Whiting (Toronto) and Robert Adams (UNC, Chapel Hill). The public...

By The Associated Press PHOENIX – A 21-year-old Arizona man who was engaged to his former high school teacher has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for fatally stabbing a romantic rival. Sixto Balbuena was convicted of second-degree murder for killing 18-year-old Samuel Valdivia last y ...

In the SECs open meeting on proxy access, Commissioner Casey emphasized that the Commissions decision to adopt Proxy Access would only lead to greater controversy, and would ultimately be subject to challenge under the Administrative Procedures Act for failure to consider whether there was any signi ...

A former treasurer of the National Republican Congressional Committee pleaded guilty today in Washington federal district court to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the political committee and business clients. Christopher Ward, a Maryland resident, worked in the NRCC's...

Arnstein & Lehr Chicago Partners (pictured from left to right) John Ropiequet and Christopher Naveja and Chicago Associate Jason Hirsh have published an article entitled “An Introduction to the Dodd-Frank Act–The New Regulatory Structure for Consumer Finance Emerges” in the Ban ...