Scott S. Cohen

In February 2004, Compliance Week launched a monthly print magazine. Subscribers to our electronic newsletter, which is delivered via email and online every Tuesday morning, had requested that we launch such a printed publication—they wanted a physical, printed edition to which they could refer as needed—and we responded. That first little flimsy publication weighed in […]

At most industry conferences, the agenda is about as interesting and democratic as the congealed goop calcifying in the metallic pans at your kids’ school cafeteria. Sure, it’s edible, but it’s not exactly what you would have chosen to cook. Nor is it presented in a fashion that’s most, well, helpful. Typically, this problem stems […]

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I have no idea what is considered “material” anymore. Late last year, Compliance Week launched a database of “material definitive agreements” (see box at right), and I’ve been spending some of my free time searching through the nearly 6,000 contracts that have been filed since Aug. 23, 2004. And, well, it’s surprising. As you probably […]

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SEC chairmen, including current chair William Donaldson, have had a propensity to quote Justice Louis Brandeis in speeches. So allow me to throw one back at the Commission: “Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.” Contrary to Brandeis’ counsel, however, if the […]