Don’t Mess with Texas: Paxton Drives Major Municipal Bond Writers Out of Business
By: David Jakubiak* PDF Available The phrase “everything’s bigger in Texas” certainly applies to their municipal bond market: Texas is...
Judicial Immunity for Bankruptcy Judges as Mediators
By: Alex Occhionero* PDF Available On October 7, 2023, Judge David Jones of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of...
From Boardrooms to Courtrooms: Nasdaq’s Diversity Rule Faces Legal Challenges
By: Jasmin Spearnock* PDF Available In 2022, more than half of the board seats on Fortune 500 companies were held...
Will the Sackler Family Escape Liability for the Opioid Epidemic? And Why Two Major Charities Want Them To
By: Robert Bartlemay* PDF Available Between 1999 and 2021, nearly 247,000 people have died from overdosing on prescription opioids.[1] The CDC...
Big Tech Gets the Big Tobacco Treatment
By: Quinton Lister* PDF Available On October 24, 2023, a group of 41 states, as well as the District of...
SBF Rating: Unprotected
By: Venkat Iyer* PDF Available Although the FTX/Sam Bankman-Fried trial comes with the glossy veneer of cryptocurrencies, hedge funds, and...
Behind the Numbers: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Corporate Tax Avoidance
By: Dominick Detente* PDF Available Multinational companies navigate a maze of legal loopholes to minimize tax liabilities, a strategy balancing...
Is Bitcoin No Longer Private? – Proposed IRS Regulations May Require Brokers to Report Cryptocurrency Transactions
By: Madeline Salvatierra* PDF Available On August 25, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) proposed regulations that, if adopted, will...
Serving Coffee with a Side of ‘Overbroad’ Civility: Starbucks Workplace Civility Rule—What Needs to Change?
By: Marisa Ganzman* PDF Available Starbucks Coffee Company has been under heat for an ‘overbroad’ civility rule in the “How...
TSMC Arizona: The U.S. Semiconductor Industry Is in Need of an Immigration Reform to Achieve the Goal of the CHIPS Act
By: Yu-Shan Kuo* PDF Available Taiwanese Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (“TSMC”) has recently announced its delay in launching its first Arizona...