Discussion of Key Issues in Securities & Governance Litigation
I started the D&O Discourse blog in October 2012 to generate discussion among the repeat players in securities and corporate governance litigation: insurers, brokers, mediators, economists, plaintiffs’ counsel, and defense counsel. While I share opinions from a defense-counsel perspective, I call it like I see it.
Here are five of my favorite posts – well…
It was a great honor to moderate a Professional Liability Underwriting Society D&O Symposium panel on the ability of Contingent Liability (CL) insurance to improve outcomes in securities class actions (SCA).
Randy Hein, President of Berkley Transactional (Berkley Professional Liability), pioneer of CL for SCAs; Kara Altenbaumer-Price, executive risk broker at…
In my law practice, I defend particular clients in particular securities and governance cases. My mission is to get them through the litigation safely and comfortably.
But I’ve always had a broader interest in securities law and practice as well. After Congress passed the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, I read and chronicled…
I am proud to announce that D&O Discourse has been nominated for The Expert Institute’s Best Legal Blog Competition.
From a field of hundreds of potential nominees, D&O Discourse has received enough nominations to join one of the largest competitions for legal blog writing online today.
If you would like to vote for D&O Discourse,…
Because I continue to believe that the advent of significant cyber security shareholder litigation and SEC enforcement is near, I remain committed to helping public companies and their directors, officers, insurers, and brokers understand cyber security oversight and disclosure issues, risks, and defenses. This spring, I will be discussing these topics at three programs:
Following our post on the Supreme Court’s decision in Halliburton II, we decided to take the summer off from further blogging. We will resume our regular postings in September.
In addition to reading the blog, I hope that you can attend conferences at which I’m speaking this fall:
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