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Dodd-Frank And Community Banks - Cost Burdens Of Compliance And Litigation Will Make It More Difficult To Speed Recovery By Meeting The Needs Of Small Business

Editor: Mike, tell us about your focus on the needs of community banks. Horn: I continue to this day to have an intense interest in community banks. My father was a merchant. I used to go with him when he did his banking at a local community bank. He would make his night deposit after the bank...

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Third Circuit Flatly Rejects The "Fraud-Created-The-Market"Theory In Securities Fraud Cases

On August 16, 2010, a unanimous three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Malack v. BDO Seidman, LLP , No. 09-4475, 2010 US App Lexis 17090 (3d Cir. Aug. 16, 2010) (precedential), rejected the "fraud-created-the-market" theory in securities fraud cases. The...

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New Jersey: Civil Justice Reforms Hasten Recovery

Editor: Tell us about your practice. Fanning: I've been with McCarter & English for 16 years now. I joined the firm straight out of law school and have been a member of the products liability group since then. I am now chair of the group. There are a lot of folks in our offices up...

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ALF - Preserving The Charter School Alternative

Editor: Dave, describe your background and how you became involved with charter schools. Apy: I graduated from Brown University in 1982 and received my law degree from Case Western University School of Law in 1986. I then clerked for Justice O'Hern of the New Jersey Supreme Court and...

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Directors & Officers Insurance And Bankruptcy - Whose Insurance Policy Is It Anyway?

Introduction Bankruptcy changes everything. Well maybe not everything, but bankruptcy proceedings certainly complicate the already complicated business of litigating directors and officers ("D&O") insurance coverage disputes. D&O policies insure a company's directors and officers against...

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