A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky to participate in a panel on securities litigation at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, along with Professor J.W. Verret, Jonathan Richman of Proskauer Rose, Steven Toll of Cohen Milstein, moderated by Judge Michelle Childs of the District of South Carolina.  We had a lively discussion about current issues concerning these actions, including what I guess is now being branded as “event-driven” litigation, definitions of materiality, and arbitration clauses in charters and bylaws.

In my opening remarks, I discussed merger litigation and the shift from state to federal courts, covering much of the territory I previously described on this blog (of course, since that post, the Supreme Court dismissed the Emulex case as improvidently granted).  I also drew from research by Matthew Cain, Steven Davidoff Solomon, Jill Fisch, and Randall Thomas, presented in April at the ILEP symposium on corporate accountability.  (Their research is not yet public but I will link here as soon as it becomes available).

In the meantime, if you’re interested, you can watch a video of the panel here:

The other panels from the symposium are also available for viewing at this link.