The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Mike Scarcella | Nate Robson | March 13, 2019
Meet the four assistant U.S. attorneys—some of them Big Law alums—who are assigned to the college admissions fraud case in Boston.
By Scott Flaherty | March 12, 2019
The firm tapped Gibson Dunn's Kevin Rosen to push back against claims that the firm bungled a big potential recovery stemming from the financial crisis.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Robert L. Hickok, Jay A. Dubow and Erica Hall Dressler | February 28, 2019
On Jan. 4, 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in the matter, Emulex v. Varjabedian. A ruling by the Supreme Court will likely resolve a circuit split regarding the pleading standard for claims brought under Section 14(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that was created by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit's decision in April 2018.
The Legal Intelligencer | News
By Gina Passarella Cipriani | February 14, 2019
The National Law Journal is now accepting submissions for its prestigious Elite Trial Lawyers awards, which honor the best work being done on behalf of plaintiffs.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By John P. Quinn and Adam Bronstein | February 7, 2019
In three opinions issued in 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit clarified several pleading requirements for putative class action securities complaints.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Peter A. Jaslow and Joanna Jiang | January 28, 2019
In May 2015, we discussed the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) amendments to Regulation A promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), informally referred to as Regulation A+ (see “Amendments to Regulation A: Expanding Access to Capital,” The Legal Intelligencer, May 5, 2015).
By C. Ryan Barber | Mike Scarcella | December 28, 2018
A collection of our 2018 public-records reporting on the financial disclosures from Big Law partners who left, among other firms, Paul Weiss; King & Spalding; Williams & Connolly; Kirkland & Ellis, Covington & Burling, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; and Wilmer.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Robert L. Hickok, Jay A. Dubow and Kate A. Stanley | December 6, 2018
In a sign that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing to aggressively scrutinize token sales and initial coin offerings (ICOs), offers and sales of digital assets conducted by organizations using distributed ledger or blockchain technology are often referred to as "initial coin offerings" or "token sales," the Division of Enforcement recently announced that it settled registration charges against two companies that sold unregistered digital tokens.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Timothy J. Horstmann and Erica M. Koser | December 6, 2018
An “obligated person” means any person, including the issuer, that supports the payment of all or part of the obligations on municipal securities to be publicly offered for sale.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Pauline Markey | November 12, 2018
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act added a new tax provision to the Internal Revenue Code, Section 1400Z-2, which aims to provide big capital gains tax breaks to real estate and business investors who make investments in certain economically underdeveloped areas.
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