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17 Mar 2009, 4:39 pm
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw I'm speaking at a University of Dayton Law School symposium entitled "Fallout from the Bailout" on Friday, March 20, and have posted on SSRN the essay on which the talk is based: Disclosure and Judgment: "We... [read post]
15 Mar 2009, 4:30 pm
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw For reasons too irrelevant to state, I've been re-reading a canon of my youth, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. [read post]
10 Mar 2009, 11:03 am
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Attention law professors who are going to be teaching a course called anything like "Unincorporated Business Associations," or "Agency and Partnership" or "Partnerships and LLCs"! [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 4:48 am
Posted by Jeff Linden Tree It's not easy having a dorky name. [read post]
10 Feb 2009, 1:07 pm
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw The Foundation Press compilation, Enron and Other Corporate Fiascos: The Corporate Scandal Reader, 2d Edition , edited by Nancy Rapoport (UNLV), Jeffrey Van Niel, and Bala Dharan (Rice) is now in print. [read post]
8 Feb 2009, 6:12 am
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Once again, I marvel at the lessons available to us from John Thain's odyssey through Merrill Lynch. [read post]
7 Feb 2009, 6:11 am
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw To quote the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Leibniz, the principle of sufficient reason is "that the claim that nothing takes place without a sufficient reason means that nothing happens in such a way that... [read post]
5 Feb 2009, 6:01 am
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw In an effort to demonstrate what "thinking like a lawyer" means (for better but, more likely, for far worse) to my agency, partnership, and LLC class, I sent the following e-mail today:I don't usually obsess on... [read post]
1 Feb 2009, 5:38 pm
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw The ongoing contretemps involving John Thain's recent dismissal from Merrill Lynch is once again (and unfortunately) an object lesson for corporate insiders and outsiders in the subtleties of judgment. [read post]
30 Jan 2009, 9:41 am
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw I can't let it pass without comment when a front page story in the New York Times claims "Billable Hours Giving Ground at Law Firms. [read post]
30 Jan 2009, 4:05 am
But for a very well-reasoned counterpoint by my buddy Jeff Lipshaw, see here. [read post]
25 Jan 2009, 7:37 am
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Although I sometimes wonder if all the various behavioral psychology theories ultimately cancel each other out (sort of like Karl Llewellyn's famous table of contradictory construction axioms), Gretchen Morgenson's New York Times column on credit default... [read post]
24 Jan 2009, 8:33 am
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Well, in a rare moment of being "on topic," I was wondering about the somewhat "noisy" withdrawal by Rod Blagojevich's lawyer, Ed Genson, in which he was quoted as saying, "I never require a client to... [read post]
22 Jan 2009, 5:36 pm
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw There seems to be an industry right now in popularizing (for the New York Times crowd at least) the Tversky and Kahneman insights on human judgment under conditions of uncertainty. [read post]
20 Jan 2009, 1:20 pm
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Sorry, ABA Journal, but I'm going off topic for a minute. [read post]
17 Jan 2009, 12:19 pm
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw The New York Times has a story today about a start-up company called Boxee, whose software product permits the user to access multiple Internet video and music sites over a television, creating an alternative to cable... [read post]
17 Jan 2009, 12:03 pm
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw I was saddened to see today that John Mortimer, barrister, author, and creator of Horace Rumpole, the quintessential Old Bailey hack, an aging "junior barrister," passed away. [read post]