Comments on: Lawyers: Don’t Trade on Inside Information! http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/11/lawyers-dont-trade-on-inside-information.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:16:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: November 6 roundup http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/11/lawyers-dont-trade-on-inside-information.html/comment-page-1#comment-66162 November 6 roundup Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:28:24 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=21913#comment-66162 [...] News bulletin: lawyers shouldn’t trade on inside information [Cunningham, Concur Op] [...] [...] News bulletin: lawyers shouldn’t trade on inside information [Cunningham, Concur Op] [...]

]]> By: A.J. Sutter http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/11/lawyers-dont-trade-on-inside-information.html/comment-page-1#comment-66156 A.J. Sutter Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:15:59 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=21913#comment-66156 I think a comment to another post in the past few months complained that too much time is spent on insider trading cases in Corporations class. The points you raise are a good justification for the weight given to the topic, and why the time spent might not be enough. Lawyers got arrested for insider trading during the 1970s and 1980s too, but still some people never learn. Maybe it's like what someone said about sex: each generation thinks they're the first to discover it. I think a comment to another post in the past few months complained that too much time is spent on insider trading cases in Corporations class. The points you raise are a good justification for the weight given to the topic, and why the time spent might not be enough.

Lawyers got arrested for insider trading during the 1970s and 1980s too, but still some people never learn. Maybe it’s like what someone said about sex: each generation thinks they’re the first to discover it.

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