Legal Commentary

Padfield on "The Dodd-Frank Corporation" (UPDATE)
Just in time for the one-year anniversary of Dodd-Frank, I have posted an updated version of my latest piece, "The Dodd-Frank Corporation: More Than a Nexus of Contracts." Here is the abstract: Corporate theory matters...

Dodd-Frank, Systemic Risk, and Too Big to Fail
Commentators frequently ask whether Dodd-Frank has put an end to "Too Big to Fail." My answer is emphatically negative. In fact, by designating large institutions for special treatment, Dodd-Frank has simply identified TBTF institutions...

Chart of the day, Dodd-Frank delay edition
I like Louise Story's piece today on the mire in which Dodd-Frank finds itself. She links to this Davis Polk report, which includes this chart:

David Skeel on the Dodd-Frank Act
I just finished reading David Skeel?s new book on the Dodd-Frank Act, The New Financial Deal: Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences. Skeel?s book is a very good introduction to the major provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act, including...

Dodd-Frank crimes
According to Tiffany M. Joslyn's "Criminal Provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act," Dodd-Frank creates a lot of new criminal liability.

Omarova on Dodd-Frank
The Dodd-Frank Act: A New Deal for a New Age?, by Saule T. Omarova, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...

Frank Bluestein, The Maximum Financial Group, Inc., Questar Capital Corporation, and Gunnallen Financial, Inc.
alleging schemed investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

82 Year Old
Awarded $6 Million in SJS Lawsuit

Chicago Golf Course
101 Year Old Owner Must Get $25 Million for Property

$3.78 Million Dilantin Settlement Following Death of 9-Year-Old Girl
$3.78 Million Dilantin Settlement Following Death of 9-Year-Old Girl>

Fatal Drug Bust
City of Louisville awards family a $250,000 wrongful death settlement after a police officer shot a 19-year-old boy.

Child Abuse Settlement
The mother of 6-year-old Brandon Ford has accepted a $1.5 million settlement in a lawsuit that claimed the boy was severely brain damaged while in foster care...