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Court of Appeals Invalidates Part of SEC’s Conflict Minerals Rule

17 May 2014, 6:00 am by Noam Noked, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation,

Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Yafit Cohn, Associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, and is based on a Simpson Thacher memorandum. [read post]

The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov

"Hello, I’m Tom Hanks. The US government has lost its credibility, so it’s borrowing some of mine."

21 Jan 2022, 6:25 am

Said Tom Hanks in "The Simpsons Movie" (in 2007), quoted in "‘The Simpsons did it first’: Tom Hanks’s video for Biden likened to cameo" (London Times).From the London Times article:In a two-minute video released by the Biden Inaugural Committee yesterday, the Oscar-winning actor narrates the accomplishments of the Biden administration in its inaugural year — pointing to the distribution of vaccines and that “shops and… [read post]

Althouse - http://althouse.blogspot.com/

Non-Sequiturs: 10.29.13

29 Oct 2013, 2:04 pm by Joe Patrice

Simpson’s house sold at a foreclosure auction for a mere $655,000. [read post]

Above the Law - http://abovethelaw.com/

Ethical & Legal Issues with Respect to a Brain-Based Definition of Death from an Organ Donation Perspective

16 Mar 2021, 9:50 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD

As the co-leads of the Ethics and Legal Working Group for this project, Professors Chandler and Simpson will share key ethical and legal issues and considerations in relation to this work, primarily from an organ donation perspective. [read post]

Medical Futility - http://medicalfutility.blogspot.com/

From Across the Desk: Capital-Markets Centric Firms

12 Jun 2013, 8:16 am by Bruce MacEwen

Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Adam Smith Esq, Baker & McKenzie, Big Law, Biglaw, Boutique Law Firms, Bruce MacEwen, Cahill Gordon, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, capital markets, categorization, Cleary Gottlieb, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Corporate law, Cravath, Cravath Swaine & Moore, Davis Polk, Davis Polk & Wardwell, DLA Piper, Global Business, Global Work, Great Recession, International Law, International Lawyers,… [read post]

Above the Law - http://abovethelaw.com/

Getzler to Lecture on Leading Cases

19 Jul 2017, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst

Joshua Getzler, Oxford University, will speak on Leading Cases, Hermeneutics, and the Politics of Legal History at the Australian National University on Tuesday, August 1, 2017, from 1–2pm:Joshua will reflect on the role of "leading cases" in forming the common law tradition, and re-examine the mode of historical analysis of cases pioneered by AWB Simpson. [read post]

Legal History Blog - http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/

Non-Sequiturs: 08.14.13

14 Aug 2013, 2:01 pm by Joe Patrice

[Legal Juice] * Simpson Thacher lawyers reached some “unsettling conclusions” about the Clinton Foundation. [read post]

Above the Law - http://abovethelaw.com/

Court: BigLaw firms missed $1.5B error, erasing JPMorgan's security interest in GM loan

26 Jan 2015, 9:41 am by Law Lady

A lawyer at Simpson Thacher had responded, “Nice job on the documents. [read post]

The Appellate Gourmet (c) - http://appellategourmetappealsinflorida.blogspot.com/

SEC Allows Exclusion of Conflicting Proxy Access Shareholder Proposal

21 Dec 2014, 6:00 am by Yaron Nili, Co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation,

Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Yafit Cohn, Associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, and is based on a Simpson Thacher memorandum. [read post]

The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov

Shareholder Activism in M&A Transactions

26 Feb 2014, 6:06 am by Alan M. Klein, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP,

The following post is based on a Simpson Thacher memorandum. [read post]

The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov