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• Government Goes After Insider Trading
• Dodd-Frank One Year Later...and Still Waiting
• Little Risk for Those at the Top

European Supplement

• Institutional Investors From Around the World Turn to Direct Suits in U.S.

• Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Challenge? As Wall Street Outmaneuvers the Government, Institutional Investors Fill the Void
• Rebalancing the System - Institutional Investors Fight for Corporate Governance Reform
• How Did We Get Here?  Too Much Regulatory Oversight or Not Enough?

European Supplement

• The Battle to Restore Investor Rights in an Increasingly Global Economy

• Keeping Corporate America Honest: The Cost of Corporate Failure and the Role of the Private Regulator
• Dodd-Frank: SEC Beefed Up While Investors Gain Little
• Morrison v. NAB: The Shifting Geography of Investor Protections
• Subprime Reckoning: Courts Peel Back the Layers of Fraud

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• Share Buybacks in Sweden

• Other People's Money: The Unrealized Conflicts of Securities Lending
• Ready...Set...Go! Supreme Court to Set the Clock on Statute of Limitations in Merck/Vioxx
• Finding the Way Back: Reanimating the Spirit of Full Disclosure in our Capital Markets
• Final Word: Major Victory for Investors

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Foreign Investors and US Courts: Will the Investor Protection Umbrella Continue to Reach Across Borders?

• Investor Protections: Legislative Efforts to Bring the Balance Back
• Executive Compensation Reform: The Fed to Have Its Say on Pay
• The “New”SEC Comes Out Swinging

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European Reforms In Response to "Kasino-Kapitalismus" -- The Changing Landscape For Institutional Investors In Europe

• Revisiting the Value of Poison Pills
• Credit Rating Agency Oversight and Reform
• SEC Stands with Shareholders on Proxy Access Rules

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Dutch Decision Makes Inroads Toward Collective Binding Settlements in Europe

• New Opportunities for Corporate Governance Reform
• Impact of Recent Delaware Chancery Court Decisions on Investor Rights
• SEC to End Broker Vote Rule
• Policy Makers Work to Give Shareholders More Boardroom Power

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• Evolution of Foreign Investors’ Access to US Courts

• Investors Look to New Administration With a Hopeful Eye
• Carl Icahn: The Need For Corporate Governance Reform
• The Executive Compensation Problem

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• Impact of Recent "F-Cubed" Decision to Foreign Litigants

• The Impact of Deregulation on Wall Street and the Credit Crisis
• Alarming Trends in Whistleblower Protection

• Rating Agencies' Role in Credit Crisis
• SEC Sits on Sidelines During Credit Crisis
• Collapse of Auction Rate Securities

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American Securities Class Actions: The Future of European Litigants in U.S. Courts

• Lessons from Bear Stearns' Demise
• Regulatory Underkill on Wall Street
• Paulson Moves to Sideline SEC
• What Costs the American Public More …
  Government regulation? Securities litigation? Unrestrained greed?

• Silence is Golden: Stoneridge Decision Deals a Blow to Investors' Scheme Liability Claims
• The SEC Pulls the Rug out From Under Investors
• The Fingerprints of Fraud in the Mortgage Mess
• Wall Street, Heel Thyself: Put a Leash on Runaway Exec Pay!

• To Scheme or Not to Scheme
• Debating "Scheme" Liability
• GOA Report Finds SEC Routinely Mothballs Fraud Investigations
  

• Insulating Corporate America from Accountability
• The Fight to Keep America's Capital Markets Fair and Transparent
• SEC: Friend or Foe
• Tellabs: The Supreme Court Decision

• Fewer Securities Class Action Filed in 2006 - Permanent Decline, Part of a Cycle, or Random Variation?
• The SEC Flip-Flops at Supreme Court, Betraying Investors
  

• The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation...a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing?
• The Corporate End Run (Editorial Reprinted w/Permission of The New York Times)

• Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Give Me The Lowest Price Of All (Corporate Greed Redux)
• Contesting Attorneys' Fees In Class Actions: A Public Pension Fund Fiduciary Responsibility
  

• From Academia to the Private Sector: A Discussion With Professor Elliott Weiss
• When Less is More, and When It's Not: The SEC Proposed Rule on Executive Compensation
• Making Sure the Dice Aren't Loaded: Market Efficiency and the Fraud-on-the-Market Theory in Securities Class Actions

• Congress, The SEC and Private Litigation: Mending Corporate America
• Mediating Securities Class Actions: A View From the Captain's Quarters

• WORLDCOM: How A Ground-Breaking Litigation Altered The Legal Landscape For Large Securities Class Actions And Forced Wall Street To Forever Change Its Ways

• Fiduciaries Beware: Big Business Wants to Roll Back New Investor Protections
• Institutional Investor Recovery - Do You Need Help?

• The (Hard) Times They Are A Changin'
• Beyond Criminal Prosecutions: Making "Gatekeepers" Do Their Jobs
  

• The Origins of the Securities Laws

• Just A Friendly Group of "Independent" Directors
• Corporate Boards...or Social Clubs?
• A New Public (But Very Private) Watchdog: The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Issues Its First Reports
  

• The Plight of The Minimum Wage CEO
• The Results Are In...Class Action Settlements Are Significantly Higher When Institutional Investors Act As Lead Plaintiffs
  

• Institutional Investors Take Back The Street
• Shining Light On the Practices of Pension Fund Consultants: Who Are They Really Serving?
  

• The Mutual Fund Scandal: Is There No Longer Any Shelter From The Storm?
• Memo To Mutual Funds: It's All About Trust

• The HCA Derivative Litigation: A Study On Achieving Corporate Governance Reform Through Shareholder Litigation

• As The Ink Dries, Wall Street Follies Continue
• The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board: Off And Running (Finally!)

• Your Portfolio Has Been Hurt By A Securities Fraud...Now What?

• Fundamental Causes Of Accounting Debacles: Show Me Where It Says I Can't
• Civil Litigation Impact Of The New Corporate Fraud Legislation

• A Defense Counsel's Perspective - After Six Years The Jury Is Still Out On The PSLRA
• Reforming the Reform Act And Saving Our Securities Markets
  

• Congratulations To Arthur Andersen: Why Self-Regulation Of The Accounting Industry Doesn't Work
• Look Before You Leap - What Enron Can Teach Potential Lead Plaintiffs

• Leaving Money On The Table - Are You Collecting On Your Claims?
• Class Actions - Compensating Victims And Deterring Wrongdoing

• Selecting Lead Counsel In the Midst of Judicial Chaos
• Does "Buy" Really Mean "Sold Out"?
  

• Deciding When To Serve As Lead Plaintiff: A Seasoned Perspective
• Institutional Investors Persevere In Columbia/HCA Derivative Litigation
  

• Putting Your Mouth Where Your Money Is: Institutional Investor Activism And The Experiences Of The New York State Common Retirement Fund
• The Tide Turns: Institutional Investor Score Big In Delaware State Court

• My Experience As Lead Plaintiff
• Auditor Independence: Fact or Fiction?

• Pension Fund Professionals And Trustees Need Continuing Education To Properly Fulfill Their Fiduciary Responsibilities
• Pension Fund Professionals Create A National Organization And Education Certification Program
• Big Browser is Watching You - How Institutional Investors Can Do Well By Doing Good On The Privacy Front
  

• An End To Mickey Mouse Corporate Governance - Institutional Investors Lead The Way
• Corporate Auditors Under Siege
• Courts Prohibit Misleading Solicitation Of Class Members

• Mass Solicitations Dupe Institutional Investors

• In Re Cendant: The Dawning Of A New Age

• Cracking Cracker Barrel...The 1998 Amendments to the Shareholder Proposal Rule
• Having Your Cake and Eating It Too...or Recovering Costs And Expenses Incurred While Serving As Lead Plaintiff

• Aggregation...Do Too Many Cooks Spoil The Broth?
• Insider Trading...They Know Something You Don't

• Disclosure Issues For The Year 2000: Truth...Or Consequences?
• Accounting Fraud In Public Companies Is More Prevalent Than Ever: Where Is The Audit Committee?
  

• Institutional Investors as Lead Plaintiffs: Is There A New And Changing Landscape?
• The Battle Over Options Repricing: Investors Take the Offensive