Not a great day for now former Arkansas judge Mike Maggio. Apparently, on a sports blog he discussed the 2012 confidential adoption of a baby by superstar Charlize Theron (above). He used the pseudonym "geauxjudge" but was found out. Now the Arkansas Supreme Court confirms...
It was a big day for NY Onondaga County Court Judge Joseph Fahey (above) recently: the first text he ever sent. Why did he feel the need? According to the ABA Journal, the fact that an alternate juror in a manslaughter case got a text from...
So many people dream of starting their own business. Slaving away in a miserable job with miserable bosses and miserable hours and being mistreated, underpaid and unappreciated fuels those thoughts. But entrepreneurship is not for everyone who is just sick of being employed. Here are...
I may open myself up here, but I have to admit that "shock jock" Howard Stern is one of my true business heroes. As I wrote in my latest book, The Entrepreneur's Growth Startup Handbook (John Wiley & Sons/Bloomberg Press), how Stern has built his brand and...
[caption id="attachment_1231" align="aligncenter" width="596"] Not in Kansas Anymore?[/caption] Why did the shark bypass the lawyer? Professional courtesy. Makes me think of that oldie but goodie in reading in the ABA Journal about a Kansas lawyer (and former gubernatorial candidate). He appeared before the Kansas Supreme Court last...
You may not have heard about this yet, but over the last few years close to 30 states (including Delaware, NY and California) and DC have approved and another dozen or so have introduced legislation to permit so-called "benefit corporations." The concept is that the...
A fascinating recent piece in the New York Law Journal talks about the many dismissals of class action cases against US public companies based in China for alleged fraud. The cases say that because these companies' regulatory financial filings in China are sometimes different than the...
About a month ago, eight senior Democratic Senators (including Sen. Al Franken, above) wrote to SEC Chair Mary Jo White to oppose the SEC's proposed rules under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of 2012 regarding Regulation A public offerings. In particular, the Senators...
There is a section of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's website titled, "Completed Initiatives of Interest to Small Business." Since 2008 there are only three items listed. Two were mandated by Dodd-Frank and the other by the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act of...