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The Florida Bar News: Facebooking Judges

Florida’s Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee recently issued an opinion regarding judges’ online social networking activities. When asked whether a judge may add lawyers who may appear before the judge as “friends” on a social networking site, and permit such lawyers to add the judge as a “friend,” the JEAC answered, “No.” (You can be fans of judges you appear before, you just can’t be their friends, January 1 Read More

Toxic Derivatives and Their Role in the Current Economic Crisis

The onset of the current financial crisis has raised many questions that go to the very core of American corporate practice and we are only recently learning about the underlying causes of this recession. But if we examine these financial markets we recognize a common denominator, a word that many have used but only a few understand: derivatives. Before we continue don't forget to visit this article "Myths About Read More