The Washington Post Sunday had a fascinating story about one of the just five public wifi locations in the city of Havana and how locals flock there daily to get on Facebook and communicate with loved ones. You still can't go to your cell provider and...
A sharply divided Securities and Exchange Commission approved rules mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act requiring most companies to disclose the ratio of their CEO's pay to their average median employee salaries. The two Republican commissioners strongly opposed the rules on various grounds. A controversial part...
A trial court in New York State earlier this week ruled on a most difficult question: should chimpanzees used by Long Island's Stony Brook University for research be treated the same as people and deserving of human rights? The case was brought by a group...
To my faithful blogees: as you know I very rarely self-promote here, whether shamelessly or not. But I'm extremely excited about my new affiliation with the 700-attorney international law firm of Duane Morris LLP. The firm's reputation spans many decades and has strongly and steadily...
Has your phone ever made one of those calls by accident while sitting in your pocket? It's happened to most of us. Well, a Cincinnati appeals court says you have no expectation of privacy when that happens. It's easy enough to lock your phone or...
The ABA Journal reports that Indiana Tech Law School, having been unsuccessful in getting preliminary ABA law school accreditation, is ready to offer every student starting next January a 100% scholarship. The accreditation, from the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, is...
The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed by the President on July 21, 2010. Quite a different world then. Some, like its namesakes (pictured above), think it has made our banking and economic system safer and has been successfully implemented by...
Last week the US Securities and Exchange Commission issued an "investor bulletin" about its amendments to Regulation A made under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012. The introduction to the bulletin makes clear the changes were made "to enhance the ability of...
I am thrilled to announce I will be joining the international law firm of Duane Morris (www.duanemorris.com) as a corporate partner in their NYC office as of July 14. This over 700-attorney (and growing) firm is extremely well-known in the middle market transactional world and...
A pretty bold experiment indeed. A ragtag group of rebels fought against the greatest Empire in the history of our tiny orb and were successful. The idea: let's combine a bunch of smaller places with a central government but local control as much as possible....