Paul Coggins

March 23, 2018 | Texas Lawyer

No one enjoys delivering bad news, least of all a lawyer with a hair-trigger client who is prone to fire the messenger.Thus the dilemma facing…

By Paul Coggins

5 minute read

May 22, 2002 | Law.com

Paul Coggins says there's nothing more important to the average CEO than avoiding prison. Yet, for far too many companies, a corporate compliance program is nothing more than a decaying, dated document buried in the general counsel's drawer. That makes the musty program as effective as a condom locked in a safe. To be real, a compliance plan must be a living, breathing, changing document.

By Paul Coggins

4 minute read

May 17, 2002 | Texas Lawyer

A busy CEO`s to do list: confirm tee time; book massage; make dinner reservations; review corporate compliance program. Then the headline Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History hits him hard. The CEO`s revised to do list: confirm tee time;

By PAUL COGGINS

4 minute read

March 17, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Yoga is the perfect tool for handling the vicissitudes of law practice, of clearing the mind during booms and occupying the mind during busts. Of course, not everyone will take to yoga. If yoga's not your bag, that's OK too. Just curl up in a ball and kiss your asanas goodbye.

By Paul Coggins

4 minute read

June 16, 2003 | Texas Lawyer

Leave it to Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, House majority leader and ideologue savant, to try to make chicken salad out of chicken shit.

By Paul Coggins

5 minute read

November 18, 2002 | Law.com

We're losing the war. Worse, our top general warned us that we're losing. Worse still, the administration ordered the general to "zip it." No, Paul Coggins is not talking about the war on terrorism, the war on drugs, or even the newly minted war on Wall Street weasels. He's talking about a front we're conceding to the enemy. We're getting our bottom lines royally kicked by tax cheats.

By Paul Coggins

5 minute read

August 21, 2002 | Law.com

Paul Coggins turns the spotlight on the recent flurry of white-collar defendants' high-profile "perp walks." Examining the political versus the practical reasons for picking up suspects, rather than allowing them to surrender, he argues that parading defendants before TV cameras smacks of desperation by an administration overeager to prove it will crack down on corporate crime.

By Paul Coggins

5 minute read

March 21, 2003 | Law.com

The go-go days are gone-gone. Welcome to the go-slo days. Yoga is the perfect tool for handling the vicissitudes of law practice, of clearing the mind during booms and occupying the mind during busts. As a public service to yoga novices, Paul Coggins offers a few helpful terms for the barefoot barrister.

By Paul Coggins

4 minute read

July 19, 2002 | Law.com

The real victim in the Martha Stewart insider trading scandal is neither Martha or the investors, but the Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Paul Coggins proffers that if Martha is ultimately sent on an all-expense-paid vacation, courtesy of Club Fed, it is the BOP that must house, feed, clothe and entertain her. And the BOP has reached the inescapable conclusion that it has no place fit for her.

By Paul Coggins

6 minute read

August 02, 2001 | Law.com

In early April, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stunned the world by announcing that it would post practically all of its 2,000 courses on a Web site open to anyone and everyone at absolutely no charge. A critical issue is what MIT's decision will mean to the intellectual property rights of the school and its professors.

By Paul Coggins

9 minute read