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12 Jun 2007, 12:00 pm
Associated Press: Ex-KPMG Execs Request Charges' Dismissal Ideoblog: KPMG and Otis: The Fees Problem, by Larry Ribstein New York Law Journal: Defendants Seek Dismissal of KPMG Case Due to Alleged Government Misconduct; Say U.S. [read post]
11 Jun 2007, 3:21 pm
Some of the commentators currently on the schedule are Larry Garvin, Ronald Mann, Bob Lawless, Kim Krawiec, Sean Griffith, Tom Ulen, Paul Rubin, Larry Ribstein, Barbara Black, Joan Heminway, Dick Kaplan and Kristin Hickman. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 7:29 am
Larry Ribstein just published a "must read" short article here on the Harvard Corporate Governance Blog with insightful commentary on the recent Delaware Supreme Court decision in North American Catholic Educational Foundation, Inc. v. [read post]
6 Jun 2007, 9:55 am
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5 Jun 2007, 12:44 pm
In the course of a thoughtful post on the prospect of Rupert Murdoch controlling the W$J, Larry Ribstein makes a broader point:In my Public Face of Scholarship, I explore the sources of journalist bias, by way of indicating the benefits of offsetting academic involvement in the journalistic enterprise. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 3:05 am
But as Larry Ribstein points out in this wise post, the Milberg Weiss criminal case is not only thick with ironies and contradictions, the issues involved in the case are not easy to sort out. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 11:00 pm
But Andrew Morriss, one of Larry Ribstein's colleagues at the University of Illinois College of Law, provides this handy SSRN paper in which he cogently explains that governmental interference with gasoline markets has a far larger impact on gasoline prices than anything Exxon Mobil does: Rising gasoline prices have brought energy issues back to the forefront of public policy debates. [read post]
31 May 2007, 11:51 am
Predictably, I come down on Larry's side. [read post]
31 May 2007, 10:08 am
Larry Ribstein agrees on Justice Alito's key role, but "find[s] it hard to believe that Alito would vote to (1) undercut the Central Bank precedent; particularly where (2) that would have the effect of opening a large and ambiguous trap door in securities law liability. [read post]
30 May 2007, 6:46 pm
Larry Ribstein's got an article on publicly held law firms in which he addresses some of the common questions the idea raises. [read post]
28 May 2007, 2:56 am
For the second year in a row, the commie pinkos who run Google are ignoring Memorial Day Like most bullies, Rosie O'Donnell turns out to be a coward Larry Ribstein notes the increasing likelihood of SEC v Delaware fights, while bopping bête noire Gretchen Morgenson DUI and cocaine possession "no big deal" if you're Lindsay Lohan (which is probably true both in the sense that she'll probably get a slap on the wrist and that… [read post]
27 May 2007, 3:43 pm
Larry Ribstein has a post here about an issue that Sunrise Senior Living is confronting (as reported by the New York Times), regarding tension between a Delaware statute requiring annual meetings and the apparent inability, currently, of Sunrise to comply with a federal... [read post]
25 May 2007, 6:13 am
I subscribed to daily tutorials of corporate law wisdom generously broadcast to the world by Professors Stephen Bainbridge, Larry Ribstein, Gordon Smith, Victor Fleischer & Christine Hurt. [read post]
23 May 2007, 2:41 pm
Larry Ribstein's been predicting that a law firm will go public for quite a while now and he's finally got a data point:As discussed in the Sydney Morning Herald: Slater & Gordon Ltd . . . became the first law firm in the world to list on a stock exchange on Monday. [read post]
23 May 2007, 6:30 am
As noted in the WSJ Law Blog, on law.com's legal blog watch , and by my good friend Larry Ribstein, the Australian law firm Slater & Gordon, a personal injury specialist firm with 21 branches in the country and over 20,000 clients, became the first publicly-traded law firm in the world yesterday when it listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. [read post]
22 May 2007, 2:10 am
These include Scott Riddle at the Georgia Bankruptcy Law Blog, Francis Pileggi at the Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog, and three law professors whose articles the Delaware Supreme Court cited in the opinion: Professor Stephen Bainbridge at ProfessorBainbridge.com, Professor Larry Ribstein at Ideoblog, and Professor Fred Tung at Conglomerate.The Next Big Insolvency Case. [read post]
21 May 2007, 9:11 am
The most important thing to know about the case is that the court cited me in passing (JK), as well as fellow corporate law bloggers Steve Bainbridge and Larry Ribstein. [read post]
18 May 2007, 3:10 am
Given that the former leaders of the firm candidly admitted that the firm took big risks in the tax shelter business in order to generate increased profits, Larry Ribstein makes a typically insightful observation about how strict regulation of law firm structure may have contributed to the firm's questionable risk-taking: It is at least worth exploring whether freeing law firms from these constraints would produce more responsible firms. [read post]
16 May 2007, 1:44 pm
UPDATE: Larry Ribstein reminds me (again) that he has a paper on this topic. [read post]
15 May 2007, 1:42 pm
As a supportive anecdote, I point to Larry Ribstein's analysis of the Chrysler buyout which concludes:It's just a table for two, with capital and labor sitting across from each other, no referees, and a pie in the middle. [read post]
