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Startup Financing Report 2013-05-20

Startup Financing Report 2013-05-20 ( for the Week of 2013-05-13 to 2013-05-19 ) The Startup Financing Report is published each Monday on WITNESSETH: Law, Deals, & Data. This Report tracks startup-company financing activity reported during the prior week. The data is based on Form D disclosures filed with the Securities... Continue reading

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Startup Financing Report 2013-05-13

Startup Financing Report 2013-05-13 ( for the Week of 2013-05-06 to 2013-05-12 ) The Startup Financing Report is published each Monday on WITNESSETH: Law, Deals, & Data. This Report tracks startup-company financing activity reported during the prior week. The data is based on Form D disclosures filed with the Securities... Continue reading

Posted 7 days ago at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Professorial Proxy Fight!

The Hess Corp. board contest has drawn legal academics into a professorial proxy fight. What's at stake? The fundamental question of short-term versus long-term shareholder value. Continue reading

Posted May 13, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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MPRE for Law School Admissions?

The most recent ABA Journal reports on the decision by the ABA to continue the de facto requirement of the LSAT for law school admission: In March, the council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar reached a preliminary decision to retain the current version... Continue reading

Posted May 9, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Startup Financing Report 2013-05-06

Startup Financing Report 2013-05-06 ( for the Week of 2013-04-29 to 2013-05-05 ) The Startup Financing Report is published each Monday on WITNESSETH: Law, Deals, & Data. This Report tracks startup-company financing activity reported during the prior week. The data is based on Form D disclosures filed with the Securities... Continue reading

Posted May 7, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Bar Passage and ABA Accreditation

Should the ABA tighten the bar passage requirement for law schools with a uniform national standard? Continue reading

Posted May 1, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Startup Financing Report 2013-04-29

Startup Financing Report 2013-04-29 ( for the Week of 2013-04-22 to 2013-04-28 ) The Startup Financing Report is published each Monday on WITNESSETH: Law, Deals, & Data. This Report tracks startup-company financing activity reported during the prior week. The data is based on Form D disclosures filed with the Securities... Continue reading

Posted Apr 29, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Startup Financing Report 2013-04-22

Startup Financing Report 2013-04-22 ( for the Week of 2013-04-15 to 2013-04-21 ) The Startup Financing Report is published each Monday on WITNESSETH: Law, Deals, & Data. This Report tracks startup-company financing activity reported during the prior week. The data is based on Form D disclosures filed with the Securities... Continue reading

Posted Apr 22, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Regulating Institutional Shareholder Services?

In a recent post, Professor Stephen Bainbridge (UCLA) has called for regulation of proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). He argues that ISS has become "too powerful, has too many conflicts of interest, and is too biased against management." I respect professor Bainbridge and enjoy reading just about everything... Continue reading

Posted Apr 20, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Startup Financing Report 2013-04-15

Startup Financing Report 2013-04-15 ( for the Week of 2013-04-08 to 2013-04-14 ) The Startup Financing Report is published each Monday on WITNESSETH: Law, Deals, & Data. This Report tracks startup-company financing activity reported during the prior week. The data is based on Form D disclosures filed with the Securities... Continue reading

Posted Apr 16, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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The 2012 Michigan Bar Exam: Raising the Bar or Moving the Goalposts?

Comparing passage rates and LSAT scores on the California bar exam, the New York bar exam, and the Michigan bar exam. Continue reading

Posted Apr 13, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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More on the Most Difficult Bar Exams

Which bar exams are the most difficult? Continue reading

Posted Apr 10, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Startup Financing Report 2013-04-08

Startup Financing Report 2013-04-08 ( for the Week of 2013-04-01 to 2013-04-07 ) The Startup Financing Report is published each Monday on WITNESSETH: Law, Deals, & Data. This Report tracks startup-company financing activity reported during the prior week. The data is based on Form D disclosures filed with the Securities... Continue reading

Posted Apr 7, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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The Most Difficult Bar Exams

Everybody loves rankings, and everybody loves the bar exam. So I thought the combination of the two would make for a winning post as the academic year winds down. How much do a law graduate's chances to pass the bar depend on which state's examination he or she takes? It... Continue reading

Posted Apr 3, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Startup Financing Report 2013-04-01

Startup Financing Report 2013-04-01 ( for the Week of 2013-03-25 to 2013-03-31 ) The Startup Financing Report is published each Monday on WITNESSETH: Law, Deals, & Data. This Report tracks startup-company financing activity reported during the prior week. The data is based on Form D disclosures filed with the Securities... Continue reading

Posted Apr 1, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Startup Financing Report 2013-03-25

Startup Financing Report 2013-03-25 ( for the Week of 2013-03-18 to 2013-03-24 ) The Startup Financing Report is published each Monday on WITNESSETH: Law, Deals, & Data. This Report tracks startup-company financing activity reported during the prior week. The data is based on Form D disclosures filed with the Securities... Continue reading

Posted Mar 25, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Startup Financing Report 2013-03-18

Startup Financing Report 2013-03-18 ( for the Week of 2013-03-11 to 2013-03-17 ) The Startup Financing Report is published each Monday on WITNESSETH: Law, Deals, & Data. This Report tracks startup-company financing activity reported during the prior week. The data is based on Form D disclosures filed with the Securities... Continue reading

Posted Mar 18, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Required Tax Reading for Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyers

In researching some M&A tax issues today, I came across an article in the Penn State Law Review, Basic Tax Issues in Acquisition Transactions by Michael L. Schler of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. This is the best summary I have seen of tax issues in M&A designed especially for... Continue reading

Posted Mar 17, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Startup Financing Report 2013-03-11

Startup Financing Report 2013-03-11 ( for the Week of 2013-03-04 to 2013-03-10 ) The Startup Financing Report is published each Monday on WITNESSETH: Law, Deals, & Data. This Report tracks startup-company financing activity reported during the prior week. The data is based on Form D disclosures filed with the Securities... Continue reading

Posted Mar 14, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Totenberg Further Discredits NPR

In a recent NPR piece, Nina Totenberg accused Chief Justice Roberts of “misconstruing” Census data in oral argument in a case. The comment she criticized came as part of Roberts’ questioning of Solicitor General Verrilli, in which Roberts asserted that Massachusetts “has the worst ratio of white voter turnout to... Continue reading

Posted Mar 5, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Startup Financing Report 2013-03-04

Startup Financing Report 2013-03-04 ( for the Week of 2013-02-25 to 2013-03-03 ) The Startup Financing Report is published each Monday on WITNESSETH: Law, Deals, & Data. This Report tracks startup-company financing activity reported during the prior week. The data is based on Form D disclosures filed with the Securities... Continue reading

Posted Mar 4, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Startup Financing Report 2013-02-25

Startup Financing Report 2013-02-25 ( for the Week of 2013-02-18 to 2013-02-24 ) The Startup Financing Report is published each Monday on WITNESSETH: Law, Deals, & Data. This Report tracks startup-company financing activity reported during the prior week. The data is based on Form D disclosures filed with the Securities... Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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That's Right: Yet Another Post on Law Review Rankings

Google Scholar Metrics has ranked law reviews, and just in time for the spring law review submissions season. In a previous post I discussed Google Scholar's ranking of the top 20 law reviews. In another post, I used the Google Scholar Metrics data to produce a list of Google's most-cited... Continue reading

Posted Feb 21, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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The Nevada Nuisance?

Keith Bishop at the California Corporate & Securities Law blog has put together a post profiling recent scholarship on Nevada corporate law. The articles and essays linked there show a variety of opinions about Nevada's recent rise to more prominence in corporate law. The rise has been dramatic, especially for... Continue reading

Posted Feb 20, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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Startup Financing Report 2013-02-18

Startup Financing Report 2013-02-18 ( for the Week of 2013-02-11 to 2013-02-17 ) The Startup Financing Report is published each Monday on WITNESSETH: Law, Deals, & Data. This Report tracks startup-company financing activity reported during the prior week. The data is based on Form D disclosures filed with the Securities... Continue reading

Posted Feb 18, 2013 at W I T N E S S E T H:

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