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Securities litigator Christopher “Kip” Hall has joined DLA Piper as a partner in the firm’s New York office, and will practice in the firm’s Litigation group. Prior to joining DLA Piper, Hall was a partner with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. In a statement today, Joseph G. Finnerty III, Chair of DLA Piper’s New York Litigation […]
Along with the introduction of a new SEC settlement database and a new report today, NERA also rolled out a website dedicated to SEC settlements called “Securities Litigation Trends.” SLT showcases NERA’s ability to parse the SEC settlement data into Top 10 charts such as Top 10 by Total Dollar Amount, Top 10 Individual Settlements, […]
NERA Consulting announced today that after “reviewing every litigation release and administrative proceeding document published from July 31, 2002 through September 30, 2008,” it has developed a proprietary database of settlements in SEC enforcement actions. Using this data, NERA published a report today offering an overview of trends in the number of settlements and settlement […]
Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll name partner Michael Hausfeld says he has been “expelled” from CMH&T and will be starting his own law firm, according to the Am Law Daily. Am Law Daily reports that on Friday, Hausfeld sent an e-mail to attorneys he had been working with indicating that he had been “expelled” from […]
In a sudden moment of clarity, I have just now realized that the SEC Inspector General is Sam the Sheepdog, and the SEC Enforcement Division is Ralph Wolf. I explain in this post (click here) on my Enforcement Action blog over at Compliance Week.
Law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton announced today it had elected eight new partners, including securities litigation and white collar criminal defense attorney Joon H. Kim. Kim, a former AUSA in the Southern District of New York, focuses on litigation and arbitration, particularly securities litigation, internal investigations, and white-collar criminal defense. Read the Cleary […]
We’ve been on the lookout for another Warrior Stock of the Day ever since first bestowing that title to the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company back in October. Although technically not a stock (yet), the latest recipient of our WSD award is Grand Canyon Education,* which the WSJ reports will attempt to defy an abysmal IPO […]
Michael Garcia, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, may resign his position as early as this week to return to private practice, possibly with law firm Kirkland & Ellis, the WSJ reports. Possible replacements for Garcia include Lev Dassin, the current No. 2 prosecutor at the SDNY; Mark Pomerantz, a prominent […]