Now that the Supreme Court has said the auditing profession's main regulator can continue to exist, here's a knottier question: Should it?
Read More »Lawyers’ mouths get them in trouble
Here we have a tale of two lawyers.
Read More »Court’s term is almost over, thank goodness
As usual the Supremes will be dancing and singing this week with a great flurry to end their annual tour with a bang. No, Diana Ross is not reinventing Motown in the nation’s capital. The U.S. Supreme Court is ending ...
Read More »To find out what went wrong, follow the money
Forensic accounting has been around for decades, but only in the last 10 years have people become aware of the profession on a wide scale. Many of the techniques used by forensic accountants to investigate fraud and analyze the numbers ...
Read More »Mississippi Gov. Barbour naive where it comes to BP
When the Exxon Valdez ran ashore in Alaska in the spring of 1989, I was a 22-year-old college student and editor of the student newspaper at Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss. I remember being so interested in the events ...
Read More »Rule on commas: When in doubt, leave them out
We’ve all seen it: writers who use commas with no particular purpose in mind, mindlessly sprinkling them throughout long and winding sentences without thought to where those commas actually belong – or writers who fail to use any commas, stringing ...
Read More »IP Frontiers: Disclose prior art, material information
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the federal appeals court established to hear cases involving patent law, has scheduled a Nov. 9 oral argument for Therasense Inc. v. Becton, Dickinson & Co., which may have profound – and, ...
Read More »SEC should be given a freer hand, more resources
Few could argue convincingly that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has excelled at its duties.
Read More »Court says silence is no longer golden
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Berghuis v. Thompkins, No. 08-1470.
Read More »Know the power of your firm’s brand
Law firm marketers are constantly reiterating the value of the firm’s brand. How can attorneys participate in reinforcing the firm’s overall brand? A great place to start is to stop and examine your individual brand and how it contributes to ...
Read More »Obama pushes full employment for certain Senate candidates
Judge in New Orleans invites to lunch Davis McAlary, a cheerfully wacky musician in the HBO series "Treme." McAlary is running for city council, mostly to help sell his CDs.
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