Lawyers from 21 countries, including the United States, UK, France, Mexico, Uruguay, Switzerland, Italy, France, Argentina, Chile, Panama, Israel, German, Lithuania, Colombia, Brazil, Austria, Ecuador, Luxembourg, Malta, and Portugal have joined together in a world alliance representing investors who lost out in the alleged $50 billion fraud by Bernard Madoff. The Times Online reports that […]
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Today’s “Web 2.0” Webcast Materials
Slides, videos and additional materials are now available for today’s webcast (2 pm EST–sign up here): “Web 2.0 – Leveraging New Media to Maximize Your Securities & Compliance Practice” Presentation Slides: Available here: http://www.securitiesdocket.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/securities-docket-presentation-revd-v3.pdf LinkedIn: Connect with Bruce Carton on LinkedIn.com: Bruce Carton Connect with Doug Cornelius on LinkedIn.com: Doug Cornelius Twitter Follow Bruce Carton […]
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Cancel Your Plans for Wednesday Night: “American Greed”
Cancel your plans for Wednesday, February 18th (9:00 pm EST), or at least get your TiVo ready to go. That evening, CNBC’s “American Greed” series is airing an episode entitled “A Scam Exposed: Strippers and Insider Trading” about the astonishing SEC insider trading case against Eugene Plotkin (pictured), David Pajcin, and a host of others. […]
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Feb. 24 Webcast: Liability of Professionals in the Financial Crisis
On February 24, 2009, at 2:00 pm EST, Securities Docket will host a webcast entitled, “Liability of Professionals in the Financial Crisis” featuring two of the top lawyers in the securities litigation field. Stuart Grant of Grant & Eisenhofer P.A. and Michael Young of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP will addresses critical questions now arising […]
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Mary Schapiro’s First 15 Days on the Job
Time has a good piece today on Mary Schapiro’s first 15 days on the job as chairman of the SEC. The article includes quotes from Enforcement Action’s Bruce Carton on the significance of the immediate Enforcement-related measures that Schapiro has already implemented. The article confirms prior reports (discussed here) that the top candidate to fill […]
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Making a Case for the SEC’s Enforcement Division
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, you have heard the people’s case against the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement. It now rests in your hands to decide whether this is a guilty party. In a span of less than one year, the public’s assessment of the Enforcement Division—particularly by certain members of Congress […]
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I Am the Lorax? So Be It
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees.I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues. –The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss I don’t know at what point I became the Lorax, speaking for the SEC. I certainly didn’t set out to be the Lorax, and have been critical of the SEC through […]
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Feb. 17 Webcast: Web 2.0 – Leveraging New Media in Securities/Compliance
On February 17, 2009, Securities Docket is sponsoring a webcast entitled “Web 2.0 – Leveraging New Media to Maximize Your Securities & Compliance Practice” that will look at the numerous ways that securities and compliance counsel and professionals can now use New Media to promote, market, and network themselves, their practices and their firms as […]
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SEC’s Schapiro Announces Immediate Measures to Bolster Enforcement
SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro delivered a speech this morning at PLI”s 2009 “SEC Speaks” conference that announced several important new Enforcement Division initiatives. First, Schapiro stated that as a “first, but significant,” step in empowering the Enforcement staff, I am this week taking action to end the Commission’s two-year “penalty pilot” experiment, which had required […]
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No, It is Not OK to Shoot My Client
The response is now in to the very interesting question posed by U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff (previously discussed here) when deciding whether to free Marc Dreier on bail: “Are these armed guards authorized to shoot him” if he tries to flee? Counsels’ answer: Don’t Shoot!! The New York Law Journal reports that in […]