Month: November 2012

From a message sent this afternoon by New York State Bar Association President Seymour James, Jr.: Throughout the affected areas, we anticipate a great need for assistance with legal issues…

Well, this doesn't relate to the JoePa Statue that was removed from the Penn State campus last summer (or Michael Bérubé's resignation of the Paterno family chair) -- and therefore…

  As I mentioned in my prior post, I spoke on Monday about “rogue trading” at a seminar hosted by the Autorregulador del Mercado del Valores de Colombia in Bogotá,…

Most of Lower Manhattan heads into the fifth day without power, water or heat.  Electricity is expected to come on over the weekend in Manhattan, but some other parts of…

News of University of Kentucky Professor Jeffory Clymer's Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century has just reached Chapel Hill.  This is a book I'm very much looking…

We're very pleased to welcome two new guests to the Lounge: Taja-Nia Henderson and Patrick S. O'Donnell.  Taja-Nia is an Assistant Professor of Law at Rutgers-Newark, having joined the faculty…

Hurricane Sandy has caused severe damage and loss along the East Coast.  All of Lower Manhattan, where I live, has been without power since Monday.  For most of us, that…

From the FT: Some 100 of the Swiss lender’s [UBS] fixed income traders in London discovered at the turnstiles that their passes were no longer working when they tried to…

It's my pleasure to announce that Professor Taja-Nia Y. Henderson of Rutgers School of Law, Newark, is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  …