Volume 33, Issue 4, Summer 2008 | Full Table of Contents

Guests at the Table?: Independent Directors in Family-Influenced Public Companies

Deborah A. DeMott

By some measures, family-controlled companies account for about a third of large public companies in the United States. Public companies that retain characteristics of family firms pose a series of intriguing question about corporate governance . . .read more>>

For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Demise of Exchange Trading Floors and the Growth of ECNs

Jerry W. Markham & Daniel J. Harty

The colorful "open outcry" trading in the "pits" of the Chicago futures exchanges and the bell-ringing opening of the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange have long dominated the public perception of how those markets operate . . .read more>>

Free Writing

Steve Thel

In 2005, the SEC effectively ended most restrictions on the use of written offering materials in public distributions of securities. Previously, the only written offering materials permitted . . .read more>>

Layering Administrative Law and Basic Contract Principles: Analyzing the Waiver of FMLA Claims in Severance Agreements

Katherine A. Burkhart, Note

Post-termination severance agreements inhabit an area of employment law that implicates fundamental administrative and contract law principles . . . read more>>

Defending the "Acceptable Business Reason" Requirement of the Equal Pay Act: A Response to the Challenges of Wernsing v. Department of Human Services

Ruben Bolivar Pagan, Note

Since its enactment in 1963, the majority of Circuits have required employers seeking to defend their discriminatory payment practices against Equal Pay Act litigation to provide an "acceptable business reason" . . .read more>>