Wall Street
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Biglaw, Wall Street
David Boies: The Politics Of The Hank Greenberg Case Were 'Maddening'
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 02.03.17
* Judge Gorsuch by the numbers. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Employees are passé. [Adjunct Law Prof Blog]
* Will Gorsuch be borked? [Law and More]
* Tell me again how Hillary Clinton was too cozy to Wall Street to be trusted. [Huffington Post]
* Judge Gorsuch: The College Years. [Fusion]
* Oculus exec slams expert witness in the case that led to a $500 million verdict. [Kotaku]
* The 25th Amendment will not save us. [Slate]
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Banking Law, Wall Street
Trump Wants To ‘Do A Big Number’ All Over Dodd-Frank
That big number, it turns out, is the number two.
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Litigation Finance, Litigators, Money
Variety Fuels Billion-Dollar Litigation Finance Funds Of Tomorrow
Litigation funding is an unsettled environment, and there's plenty of room for innovation and new ideas. -
Money, Wall Street
Enterprise Risk Management: A New Area for Attorneys
What is ERM, and how can it help lawyers help their clients to deal with the challenges an organization faces? -
Wall Street
It’s Official, Nobody F@cks With Preet Bharara
The Sheriff of Wall Street will keep wearing his spurs, because he wants to. -
Technology
Wall Street Is Dreaming Of Megamergers Under Trump -- Including A Verizon-Comcast Super Union
Things are going to get big in telecom... -
Litigation Finance, Litigators, Money
Tort Reform And The Litigation Finance Business
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Litigators, Money, Wall Street
Forget Holding Them Or Folding Them - Start By Not Leaving Money On The Table!
Many attorneys leave money on the table by overlooking hedonic damages. -
Money, Wall Street
Lawyers Advising Business Owners May Find Value In Investment Banking Services
A new study offers insights about whether and how investment bankers add value to middle-market transactions. -
Politics, Wall Street
Screw It, Jamie Dimon Is Just Going To Have To Be Treasury Secretary Whether He Likes It Or Not
Welcome to the #DraftDimon movement. -
Litigation Finance, Litigators, Money, Wall Street
Forget Where's The Beef? Where Is The Alpha?!
What is "attribution analysis," and why do lawyers need to know about it? -
Litigation Finance, Litigators, Money, Wall Street
Contingent Value Rights Offer A Model for Litigation Finance
As litigation finance continues to evolve, new models of valuation will be required in order to help expand the market.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.17.16
* Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may have vowed to “open up our libel laws” if wins the election, but it turns out that despite his many threats to do so, he hasn’t actually sued a newspaper for libel in more than three decades. The last time he sued a newspaper for libel was in 1984, and his suit was ultimately dismissed. [Reuters]
* “If Billy had been passive or responded ‘Shut the f— up’ to Trump, Billy would have been out of a job the next day.” Billy Bush, formerly of Access Hollywood, has hired Orrick partner Marshall Grossman as he tries to negotiate his exit deal from NBC and further defend himself in light of his role in the now infamous Donald Trump “grab them by the p*ssy” tape. [Hollywood Reporter]
* New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wants to bring sports gambling to his state. He’s asked Ted Olson to take the fight to the Supreme Court, where he’ll argue that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act is an unconstitutional assault on state sovereignty. What’s your over/under bet on this split decision? [WSJ Law Blog]
* Where do the members of Wall Street’s secret society of in-house lawyers for the world’s most powerful banks meet for their yearly gathering? Reportedly organized by Shearman & Sterling partner Robert Mundheim, the 2016 soirée was held at the Trianon Palace Versailles, a place opulent enough to discuss banking woes. [Big Law Business]
* A federal judge has temporarily enjoined the Houston College of Law (formerly known as South Texas College of Law) from using its new name because it’s confusingly similar to the University of Houston Law Center’s name, and has created a “substantial threat of irreparable injury” to the school. We’ll have more on this later. [Houston Chronicle]
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Hedge Funds / Private Equity, Securities Law, Technology, Wall Street
Self-Learning Machines Beating Hedge Funds -- What Lawyers Need to Know
Even if one believes that lawyers themselves are insulated from the changing nature of financial markets, their clients are not. -
Hedge Funds / Private Equity, Securities Law, Wall Street
Low-Cost Hedge Fund Replication May Threaten Securities Lawyers
It’s a brave new world, and securities lawyers should be considering how their role in that world will work. -
Hillary Clinton, Politics, Wall Street
Hillary Clinton Doesn’t Care About Bank People, Says Jamie Dimon
The Khaleesi of Wall Street is back! -
Money, Wall Street
Algorithmic Trading Is Changing Markets
The Dodd-Frank Act has hastened the shift from people-driven trading to machine-driven trading. -
Wall Street
Wells Fargo’s Week Just Went From Bad To Preet
We are in day six of Wells Fargo’s precipitous fall from grace and it’s beginning to seem like the bank is in a self-ideated nightmare without end. -
Hedge Funds / Private Equity, Wall Street
Finance And Law: Sizing Up New Bond Options For Hedge Funds
What are "cat bonds," and what do lawyers need to know about them?