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Insider Trading Cases Just Got Easier

By Barry Barnett on February 6, 2014

Crying BunnyYou know that Jeffrey Abraham convinced the Second Circuit last month to revive an insider trading case against Xcelera big wigs. But did you know the case has Greater Import than Blawgletter told you about?

It does. As Jeff tells us:

The more important parts of the holding, in my opinion, are that in a claim

…

Posted in Class Actions, Securities

Federal Bar on Insider Trading Applies to Obscure Stocks

By Barry Barnett on February 4, 2014

Poker GameSay you own shares of stock in Podunk Corp. Perhaps you won them in a poker game. You can't sell them on a stock exchange; no one has done what federal securities law requires in order to "register" the stock.

You know almost nothing about what Podunk has done in the last five years. You…

Posted in Class Actions, Securities

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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