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Regulatory Complicity in Nasdaq's Troubles 27 Aug 2013 | 05:06 pm
Nasdaq had another bad day last week. On Thursday, bringing back unpleasant memories of the troubled Facebook initial public offering, the exchange halted trading in its stocks for about three hours w...
CFTC's Distaste for the Administrative Procedure Act 22 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has shown its distaste for the Administrative Procedure Act in connection with regulation. The CFTC avoids the procedural safeguards that are part of the rulem...
A $33/hour Robbins Geller contract attorney tells her story 20 Aug 2013 | 07:14 pm
A former contract attorney at Robbins Geller writes me about her second-class experience at $33/hour, hired through Special Counsel:I am an attorney who works on my own cases, but I also work contract...
A better solution to prison overcrowding 19 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced proposed prison reforms aimed at reducing the population of the nation's overflowing federal prisons. Holder cited figures that show the federal pris...
SEC Response to Letter from JOBS Act Author 16 Aug 2013 | 04:21 pm
The SEC finally responded, in a letter, to criticism leveled at the Commission by Representative Patrick McHenry (R-NC) one of the principal drafters of the 2012 JOBS Act.
Silverman v. Motorola 16 Aug 2013 | 03:50 pm
Robbins Geller receives an excessive $60 million award in a $200 million PSLRA settlement. A professional objector appeals&mdsash;and the Seventh Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Easterbrook, affirms. ...
Perez's Pension Power Play 15 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
Newly-confirmed Labor Secretary Thomas Perez seems to certainly have no problem with courting controversy. After his widely-publicized quid pro quo with the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, which was desi...
How Crowdfunding is Disrupting Capital Markets 15 Aug 2013 | 04:08 pm
Ryan Caldbeck, the founder of CircleUP, describes in Forbes how crowdfunding is disputing capital markets.
Letting the CFTC Staff Run the Show 15 Aug 2013 | 01:34 am
Many independent agencies are governed by politically balanced boards or commissions in order to ensure that their policy decisions are temperate, represent multiple viewpoints, and allow for accounta...
Better bounty hunting in securities litigation? 14 Aug 2013 | 06:08 pm
Amanda M. Rose, Vanderbilt Law, has an interesting paper, "Better Bounty Hunting: How the SEC's New Whistleblower Program Changes the Securities Fraud Class Action Debate":The SEC's new whistleblower ...
