It’s not every day that a group of prominent figures from both the plaintiffs’ and defendants’ sides of U.S. securities law sit down together to talk over the "hot topics" of the day. However, a conference held on Friday at Columbia Law School, and presented by the school’s Center on Corporate Governance, provided the attorneys an opportunity for face-to-face dialogue.

One panel at the conference, “Securities Litigation and Enforcement,” brought a federal judge, leading management-side defense lawyers and high-level government enforcers to the table. The panelists differed on some points, in particular the use of administrative law judges by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to try cases (including insider-trading cases) rather than going the federal court route.

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