UK Supreme Court Rules Market Value of Managing Director's Securties Did Not Have to Account for Special Employment-Related PriceGiving an objective meaning to the term market valuation, the UK Supreme Court ruled that a managing director who sold his employment-related securities at a special price ...

Oh, paranoid Americans obsessively concerned with security issues. . . . Will your font of genius-level freedom-raping ideas ever run dry? In South Carolina, anyone engaged in "subversive activities" must now register with the Secretary of State.  Failure to comply with the Subversive Activities R ...

Judge Rakoff has questions about the proposed SEC-BofA settlement. He thinks that the $150 million penalty is "still quite small," wonders if the court should exercise oversight over the implementation of some of the corporate governance changes and questions why...

Regarding the ongoing debate over target date funds: Apparently the Investment Company Institute has prepared a paper called "Dispelling Target Date Fund Myths with the Facts." I say "apparently" because I cannot find it on the ICI website. The BrightScope...

San Francisco - Today a federal appeals court rejected a government claim of "lobbyist privacy" to hide the identities of individuals who pressured Congress to grant immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the government's warrantless electronic surveillance of millions of ordi ...

While some schools are extremely strict on their tardy policies, forcing students to get to class on time no matter what, that is probably not what caused a seventeen year-old boy from Shoreline, Washington to crash his parents’ car through the doors of his high school and drive it down the hall. Th ...

The George Washington University Law School is hosting a conference, Aggregate Litigation: Critical Perspectives, that may be of interest to our readers. Description and details after the jump: Aggregate litigation lies at the core of American exceptionalism in litigation and...

Justice Department Opposes New Google Book SettlementThis posting was written by Darius Sturmer, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter.Despite the substantial progress reflected in the proposed amended settlement agreement in The Authors Guild Inc. et al. v. Google Inc., the U.S. Department of Jus ...

Today we bring you Part II of my conversation with Wayne Burton and Cyndy Nayer of the Center for Health Innovation, where we get into some specific examples of successful programs.  The Center represents over 40 million lives, and brings together employers and providers to focus on a limited number ...

The Illinois Review Board has recommended a 30 day suspension of an elected state's attorney for litigation misconduct. The board's synopsis of the case: [The prosecutor], the State's Attorney of Wayne County, was charged with misconduct arising out of his...