As it stands, the rest of us will be paying much money over a long time for the greed and bad judgment of those who melted down the economy. Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars are propping up firms that ...
Read More »Buyer: Reporting rules likely to be relaxed, very relaxed
In early September, the FCC decided it would no longer require telecommunications giants Verizon, AT&T and Qwest to submit regularly filed reports that have tracked information on how those companies have performed in the marketplace. Initially, it seemed like a ...
Read More »Powers and McNalis:The power of storytelling in word-of-mouth marketing
“I guess you could say I was born an attorney,” the lawyer said. “Of course, it’s better to actually have a license.” Everyone in the workshop laughed. It was a good opening line in an exercise designed to help lawyers ...
Read More »Hull: Environmental sustainability in concept and practice
One of the more confusing and abstract terms in the environmental dictionary is “sustainability.” We have trouble defining the concept, and even greater difficulty trying to reduce our understanding into actions. Few reasonable people dispute that sustainability is a laudable ...
Read More »Environmental sustainability in concept and practice
One of the more confusing and abstract terms in the environmental dictionary is “sustainability.” We have trouble defining the concept, and even greater difficulty trying to reduce our understanding into actions. Few reasonable people dispute that sustainability is a laudable ...
Read More »Weil: Lehman fails, cops get caught eating doughnuts
Now can we get some subpoenas flying? What happened this weekend at Lehman Brothers Holdings is nothing short of remarkable, and I’m not just talking about its death. Sunday night, one by one, stunned Lehman employees were filmed by TV ...
Read More »Woolner: Lehman lets some creditors take key assets first
As financial gurus kept inventing ever more sophisticated ways to buy, sell and bet on debt, they didn’t notice or didn’t care that they were resting ever more of the nation’s economy on shakier ground. Without taking a sober look ...
Read More »Seckler: In making lateral moves, look before you leap
Earning a place at a top law firm is no guarantee that your career will stay on course. For the most part, law school rewards effort. If you do well, you can land a position at a good firm. But ...
Read More »Fiorino: Google’s new Chrome browser challenges Internet Explorer
What is Chrome? Chrome is a challenge to Microsoft’s browser. Google really wants to make the browser a stable and flexible platform that can do practically everything we want to do with a computer, from word processing and e-mail to ...
Read More »Google’s new Chrome browser challenges Internet Explorer
What is Chrome? Chrome is a challenge to Microsoft’s browser. Google really wants to make the browser a stable and flexible platform that can do practically everything we want to do with a computer, from word processing and e-mail to ...
Read More »In making lateral moves, lawyers should look before they leap
Earning a place at a top law firm is no guarantee that your career will stay on course. For the most part, law school rewards effort. If you do well, you can land a position at a good firm. But ...
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