DC's Big Blizzard(s): Will the SEC Still Declare Your Filings Effective? I won't whine since I grew up in Chicago, but a second blizzard is expected today in Washington as federal government offices are closed here for a second straight day as we dig out from the first. As I blogged on Friday, fede ...

Shareholder Proposals: Chevedden Sued Over Eligibility One of the longer-standing complaints in the corporate community has been the relatively unchecked ability of John Chevedden to submit dozens of shareholder proposals to companies each year - at companies where he doesn't have an ownership inte ...

I am reading a book by David Ball and Don Keenan entitled "Reptile: The 2009 Manual of The Plaintiff's Revolution". The authors advise the plaintiffs' bar regarding trial and discovery tactics. Several prominent lawyers on the plaintiffs' side have cited this book as the new bible of advocacy. Defen ...

Transcript Posted: "How to Implement the SEC's New Rules for This Proxy Season" We have posted the transcript to one of most popular webcasts in recent memory: "How to Implement the SEC's New Rules for This Proxy Season." We have also posted an updated "Sample Annual Timetable for Public Companies ...

In Marion v. Orlando Pain and Medical (5D08-3613), the Fifth District affirmed the trial court's dismissal of a class action complaint because "where plaintiff’s stake in controversy disappears before there has been effort to certify class action, the action must be dismissed." See Dickerson v. Feld ...

I've been thinking about those professions where your self -worth is given a number as a part of your job. TV people have ratings. Authors get Amazon rankings. Performers count the people in the seats at each performance. Waiters get tips which are supposed to have some correlation to the ...

Updating this ILB entry from Dec. 1st, a column by Brian Dickerson of the Detroit Free Press today begins:Can the...

Although it’s been nearly three years since Barbara Dickerson sued Evergreen Healthcare Management and Evergreen Milton-Freewater Health and Rehabilitation Center for her mother’s wrongful death, the nursing home neglect lawsuit won’t go to trial until 2010. Dickerson is seeking $7.5 million in pu ...

An Oregon court has delayed until 2010 a lawsuit that accuses a nursing home of neglect and wrongful death. In the lawsuit, Barbara Dickerson claims that her mother lost the ability to walk, suffered significant weight loss, developed a severe pressure ulcer and contacted pneumonia within 49 days of ...

In Bobby v. Robert Van Hook, the United States Supreme Court reversed a decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals that had concluded the defendant received ineffective assistance of counsel.  The Court stated "Because we think it clear that Van Hook’s attorneys met the constitutionalminimu ...