Kind Words for 'No Admit' Securities Settlements

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • Kind Words for 'No Admit' Securities Settlements • Panel: Supreme Court has Potential to Reshape Agency Authority • Government Contractors Prepare For Rough Regulatory Roads • Jeh Johnson Wins Praise As Homeland Security Nominee • Justices Struggle Over Scope of Whistleblower Protection • Trial Opens in Retaliation Claim Against Ropes & Gray Kind Words for 'No Admit' Securities Settlements The former head of enforcement for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today defended settlements that allow financial institutions to forego admissions of wrongdoing, saying they permit quicker resolution of cases and put money back in investors pockets. Robert Khuzami,... Read More » Panel: Supreme Court has Potential to Reshape Agency Authority With the U.S. Supreme Court poised to tackle the regulation of greenhouse gases and agency recess appointments this term, high court advocates say upcoming rulings could significantly alter the shape and scope of agency authority. The federal government has been... Read More » Government Contractors Prepare For Rough Regulatory Roads By Alex Zank Douglas Manya, vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., today predicted a less rosy landscape for government contractors. "The last 10 years were rather flush for contractors, [but] those times aren't going to come back very soon,"... Read More » Jeh Johnson Wins Praise As Homeland Security Nominee Former U.S. Department of Defense general counsel Jeh Johnson received strong bipartisan support on Capitol Hill today on his nomination as secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The top Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee,... Read More » Justices Struggle Over Scope of Whistleblower Protection Supreme Court justices struggled Tuesday to interpret whistleblower provisions of a federal law in a way that would protect some private company employees who do work for public companies, but not all—not, for example, the gardener who mows the company's lawn. Read More » Trial Opens in Retaliation Claim Against Ropes & Gray Former Ropes & Gray associate John Ray III's lawyer characterized him as "a man in a hurry" to fit into Ropes' white-shoe world as trial got underway Tuesday on Ray's claims that the firm lashed out at him for filing a discrimination claim. Read More » SUPREME COURT CASES

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