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As more people learn daily, Twitter is a way to get a message out to the entire world. The twist, of course, is that your message will only be seen by people who have chosen to follow your updates. A “tweet” by a person who has no followers is the proverbial tree falling in the forest with no one around to hear it. How does the public/private nature of Twitter fit with the insider trading laws?
15 People All Securities and Corporate Litigators Should Follow on Twitter
We’ve been talking about Twitter here for a while now, going back to late 2008. For most of that time, the response from 90% of you has been “Umm… what??” But with Oprah, Ashton Kutcher and Shaq now bringing Twitter into the mainstream, or at least close to it, I think that Twitter may be reaching the “tipping point” — even in the slow-moving world of law. Here are our 15 People All Securities and Corporate Litigators Should Follow on Twitter.
“SEC Joins Twitter!!!” Oh, Wait…
In the past 48 hours, the L.A. Times, the NYT’s DealBook and the UK’s Telegraph have all run stories announcing that the SEC has joined Twitter as a part of Chairman Mary Schapiro’s effort to revitalize the SEC and to make it more transparent. The problem with all of this is that the SEC has been actively using Twitter since July 2008.
Weekend Update, Securities Docket Edition
Three important items from the long weekend that may have gotten overlooked and merit a quick update.
Please Take 30 Seconds Now, Your Law Firm Will Thank You Later
Last week I had a discussion with the publisher of a major legal information service. “You don’t realize it yet,” I told him, “but your publication will eventually be on Twitter. You need to take 30 seconds and register your company’s name on Twitter before someone takes it and makes your life complicated down the [...]
The “BigLaw Lawyers on Twitter” List
There have been a flurry of articles recently (click here, for example) about how lawyers are “flocking” or at least migrating to Twitter for marketing purposes. The industrious Adrian Lurssen of JD Supra has even compiled the definitive, and ever-expanding, list of “Lawyers (and Legal Professionals) on Twitter” that is now nearly 500 strong. Having [...]
Twitter Feeds for Securities Counsel
Securities Docket launched its Twitter feed on September 15, and has spent a month or so trying to understand how Twitter can help securities litigation counsel and the other professionals who are our readers. Our conclusion for now is that Twitter has a lot of potential as both a publishing platform as well as an [...]
SEC Fair Fund Distribution Too Small to Deserve Own Securities Docket Post, Relegated to Twitter Post
By the power vested in me as editor of Securities Docket, I hereby declare the SEC’s $272,037 Fair Fund distribution announced today in its case involving Strategic Investments to be too small to merit its own post on this publication. I further order that any information concerning this distribution shall be provided on Securities [...]
The SEC is Twittering
No clue what the title of this post is about? I explain here on my Enforcement Action blog over at Compliance Week.
Law Firms Using Twitter to Find Class Members
Plaintiffs’ law firms are already using YouTube to find class members so it should not be surprising, I guess, that at least one firm is now using Twitter for that purpose. Kevin O’Keefe of LexBlog has this interesting post in which he reports that: Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, a pretty good plaintiffs’ firm here in [...]