I've just posted a paper on SSRN: ;Pay for Banker Performance: ;Structuring Executive Compensation for Risk Regulation. ;The basic idea is to include banks' public subordinated debt securities in bankers' pay packages in order to curb excessive risk taking.Here's the abstract: Excessive risk t ...

(Please note: the names and locations of all parties have been changed to protect the confidentiality of the participants in this elder abuse/personal injury case and its proceedings.) The Complaint Properly Explains the Basis for Tolling (Due to Delayed Discovery) and Should be Allowed to Proceed. ...

Pinole is part of Contra Costa County and is home to about 20,000 residents. It is considered to be a bedroom community of the surrounding large cities, like San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. The city was incorporated in 1903 and quickly expanded when the Southern Pacific Railroad was built. Some ...

The year 2010 should provide some significant developments regarding arbitration enforcement. The Eleventh Circuit began the year with a bang, sending a class action waiver case to the Florida Supreme Court since the federal court determined that the miasma among the intermediate appellate state c ...

In a published opinion released today, the Eleventh Circuit certified the following questions to the Florida Supreme Court: (1) Must Florida courts evaluate both procedural and substantive unconscionability simultaneously in a balancing or sliding scale approach, or may courts consider either proc ...

Dear 11th Circuit, if this were the standard you'd be sending every question of Florida law there:After review and oral argument, we determine conflicting decisions in the Florida intermediate appellate courts require that we certify certain questions to the Florida Supreme Court.HAHAHAHA, oh 11th C ...

As is being reported in the Miami Herald, my client Richard Wolfferts does have a past.  Twenty years ago, back in 1989, a bomb was placed in a car driven by Miami divorce lawyer Gino Negretti  - and Dick Wolfferts admitted to planting that bomb.  He served five years in prison, and he offered state ...

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SYDNEY, Australia – Two stars of the reality TV show “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here” have been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly killing and cooking a rat to eat during filming. Chef Gino D’Acampo who won the viewer-f ...

Gino Lee Breeze, a 20-year-old man from Wales, has a wee bit of a thin skin. Thing is, the gents he thought were joking about him, weren't. No matter, though. The wheels were set in motion as Mr. Breeze went to the home of one of the men he thought had a laugh at his expense. Then things got u ...

Source: LexisNexis, Lexis ID and Password Required for Online Access:   1. The Associated Press State & Local Wire, November 22, 2009 Sunday 4:00 AM GMT, , STATE AND REGIONAL, 118 words, Passenger charged in fatal stabbing on NYC subway, NEW YORK US Subway ...