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Transparency
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Sunshine in Missouri
This is PRIVATE information Oh, yeah, I forgot….
By Jean Maneke
Yesterday a newspaper called to tell me about a conversation with its local ambulance district. The paper asked for a financial statement for the past year. Why do you want…
E. coli Blog
Senator demands E. coli outbreak results
Senator Dean Florez has criticized the California Department of Health Services after the department refused to release its report on September's deadly E. coli outbreak. That outbreak, which killed several…
Sunshine in Missouri
Don’t Drink From those Springs
By Jean Maneke
There's a lovely small town along the concrete river that stretches across our beloved state which seems to consistently have sunshine law problems. The local newspaper has repeatedly pointed out…
Pension Risk Matters
Hedge Fund Notables for Pension Investors
Given the flood of money making its way from pension land to alternatives, fiduciaries may be interested in today's New York Times article entitled "The Private Lives of Hedge Funds."…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Possible Lawsuit in Connecticut
A group of students at Yale Law School is expected to file suit today in federal court in a bid to find out how the Department of Homeland Security put…
Sunshine in Missouri
Good reasons, bad reasons, but no reasoning at all.
By Jean Maneke
Yesterday I had a call from a journalist seeking to access a resume for an employee of a public governmental body, someone who had just been hired. Unfortunately, I had…
Sunshine in Missouri
Reading IS Fundamental….
By Jean Maneke
I heard two stories in the last week about two towns on the eastern side of the state where thecity councils have made some amazingly bad calls in regard to…
Pension Risk Matters
Will Private Equity Stay Private? U.S. Dept. of Justice Makes Inquiries
In "U.S. Department of Justice Comes Knocking, Raising Specter of Private Equity Antitrust Concerns," law firm Goodwin Procter, LLP writes that "the DOJ has sent out requests to some of…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Follow up on BusinessWeek interview
Pallavi Gogoi of BusinessWeek, doing a story on Edelman's blog work for Walmart, called me earlier this week to get my take on why the blogosphere was s abuzz on…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Edelman acknowledgement on Wal-Mart comes up a little short
Though Steve Rubel and Dick Edelman have responded on the Wal-Mart affair, something leaves me feeling hollow. Dick acknowledged their error in failing to be transparent about the identity of…