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Securities Settlements
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Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Native Advertising, Getting Ahead of LEED, More SCOTUS
As big as it was yesterday, today brought even more commentary on the Supreme Court's ruling in Vance v. Ball State University. I have one post in here on that…
Class Action Countermeasures
The Other Trends in the Mid-Year NERA Report
By The Editors
Last week, NERA Economic Consulting released its latest mid-year report on trends in class-action securities filings. The trend most are mentioning is the decline in the pace of securities settlements, coupled with the…
Federal Securities Law Source
Judge Rakoff Raises a Number of Questions About the Proposed Settlement Between the SEC and Citigroup
On Thursday, October 27, 2011, New York federal Judge Jed Rakoff issued an Order in the SEC's case against Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (previously discussed here), scheduling a hearing for…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : June 29, 2011
While it isn't quite the 192 posts we had yesterday, the 161 posts on The LexBlog Network today are still nothing to sneeze at. We have a lot of high-level…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Judge Refuses to Approve SEC’s Settlement with Citigroup
Courts have typically approved SEC settlements under a lenient "fair and reasonable" standard, but Judge Jed Rakoff may have started a trend when he initially refused to approve the agency's…
The D&O Diary
D & O Insurance and Securities Settlements: Professor Griffith Responds
Last week, I added a post (here) discussing the March 2, 2008 paper entitled “How the Merits Matter: D&O Insurance and Securities Settlements” (here) by Connecticut Law Professor Tom Baker…
The D&O Diary
Ohio Joins the Time Warner Opt-Out Settlement Parade
The Ohio Attorney General, Marc Dann, issued a March 7, 2007 press release (here) announcing a $144 million net settlement in the opt-out action filed against the Time Warner defendants…
The D&O Diary
Varying Averages for 2005 Securities Class Action Settlements
Each of the various published studies of the 2005 securities class actions has its own average settlement amount for 2005 securities class action settlements. The Cornerstone study reported an average…