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7 Jan 2010, 6:33 am
Roger Parloff, a senior editor of Fortune Magazine, has this lengthy overview in the magazine's latest edition of the "honest-services fraud" statute challenged in three cases this Term, Black, Weyhrauch, and Skilling. [read post]
30 May 2009, 11:04 am
Roger Parloff's take, at Fortune.... [read post]
12 May 2009, 10:40 pm
We have tried to sum up for readers the labyrinthine facts and developments in the shocking and fascinating case of Marc Dreier, drawing upon excellent and thorough articles on the subject by Roger Parloff in Fortune Magazine and by Robert Kolker in New York Magazine. [read post]
21 Mar 2009, 10:13 pm
Roger Parloff of Fortune is, as before, devastating about the... [read post]
26 Feb 2009, 10:48 am
Senior Editor Roger Parloff includes this bit: Those who sustained particularly heavy losses and who can afford to bring their own individual cases usually prefer to do so, rather than joining class actions. [read post]
8 Jan 2009, 4:35 am
Roger Parloff's cover story in the Jan. 19 issue of Fortune is the perfect antidote to the conventional wisdom that "someone" should go to jail for the financial messes we're in. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 10:01 pm
Now, as this timely Roger Parloff/Fortune article notes, an even larger mob is gathering to lynch the businesspeople who were attempting to save their companies in the wake of last year's financial meltdown on Wall Street: The level of fury surrounding these inquiries is of a different order from what we saw with, say, the backdating scandals or the Enron and WorldCom failures. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 9:10 pm
"Sending Wall Street To Jail": major source of criminal liability could be over-rosy business statements meant to shore up customer, supplier confidence [Roger Parloff, Fortune] Famed Texas injury lawyer Mark Lanier addresses Prof. [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 12:18 pm
Over at Fortune’s Legal Pad blog, Roger Parloff poses the following question: Will bankruptcy laws cushion the impact of Lehman’s insolvency on our financial system or inadvertently exacerbate the problem? [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 2:22 am
Roger Parloff also discusses on the Legal Pad blog (here) the challenges that Lehman’s petition presents. [read post]
26 Aug 2008, 2:59 am
Roger Parloff at Fortune now has -- not making this up -- a seven-part series on the affair, and it looks eminently worth reading (via YallPolitics).... [read post]
25 Aug 2008, 8:22 pm
" This is Roger Parloff we're talking about, so it's no off-the-cuff, winging-it update. [read post]
30 Jun 2008, 11:56 am
Over at Fortune’s Legal Pad blog, Roger Parloff details a series of Legal Sea Foods ads that have run on the sides of Boston buses and trolleys. [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 10:01 pm
Don't miss Roger Parloff's article on William Simon, whistleblower extraordinaire of the academic ethics-opinion-for-hire industry [Fortune; earlier] Here come the bisphenol-in-baby-bottles class actions [WaPo; Poked and Prodded] Legal assistant in Kentucky fen-phen trial says her boss told her to destroy... [read post]
30 May 2008, 4:05 pm
In today's Fortune: Blowing the Whistle on Unethical Lawyers; Legal Professor William Simon Aims to Shame Colleagues Who Sell Their Opinions for the Right Price, by Roger Parloff: In a forthcoming Stanford Law Review article titled The Market for Bad... [read post]
23 May 2008, 10:03 pm
Roger Parloff notices a loose end still dangling in the story of the disgraced Mississippi lawyer's war against State Farm.... [read post]
15 Apr 2008, 4:09 pm
When Roger Parloff has weighed in with Scruggs coverage, he has done a tremendous job, and one that is quite difficult. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 9:04 pm
Pantagraph] New Mexico Human Rights Commission fines photographer $6600 for refusing a job photographing same-sex commitment ceremony [Volokh, Bader] "Virginia reaches settlement with families of VA Tech shooting victims" [Jurist] Roger Parloff on downfall of Dickie Scruggs [Fortune] Judge in Spain fined heavily and disbarred for letting innocent man spend more than a year in jail [AP/IHT, Guardian] Hard to know whether all those emergency airplane groundings… [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 12:08 pm
Must-read profile of the Fall of Scruggs in the latest Fortune.Scruggs was someone who could render all of State Farm's actuarial calculations irrelevant, because he had the power and know-how to force it to rewrite its contracts retroactively. ... [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 9:40 am
This story in Fortune is outstanding, captures a lot of the excesses of the Scruggs litigation tactics. [read post]
