Archives: 2007October

(Washington, DC)—This law firm said Mark D. Taylor joined as a partner in the Washington office. Mr. Taylor, 49, is on the firm’s bankruptcy and financial restructuring team. He was a partner at Arent Fox LLP.

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Pulp Fiction had a creative suggestion for hiding gold. (Miramax)

Something about an $8 billion writedown brings all sorts of characters out of the woodwork. Charlie Merrill, a cousin of Merrill Lynch founder Charles Merrill, somehow paired Stan O’Neal’s firing with a global market decline in a release today, when he says: “There is […]

Asking the Law Blog to choose a favorite all-time post is kind of like asking a parent to pick their favorite child. But we gotta say that two of our all-time favorites are the Law Blog Moustache Society and the Law Blog Bow Tie Club.
Since the debut of those two exclusive groups, we’ve received scores […]

John McCain will be talking health care this morning with a bunch of journos, including the WSJ’s Laura Meckler. Click here to watch a video feed of the event.
Like many Republicans, McCain is pushing for new tax credits that would put individual insurance on a more equal footing with employer-sponsored insurance. But he also […]

Hot on the heels of the launches of Disqus and Intense Debate, commenting system SezWho has raised a $1 million series A round from KPG Ventures and upgraded their offering. The investment makes SezWho the best funded of the small group of startups currently trying to improve community for commentors. Considering how enhanced commenting […]

To combat terrorism and other global threats, how about a dose of Cold War-style realpolitik? The U.S. needs to set itself more attainable foreign-policy goals, says Barry Posen, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s strategic studies program. Eradicating terrorism entirely or working to bring about democratic change in dangerous societies — an activist approach […]

In retrospect, calling the meltdown that led to $8.4 billion of credit losses at Merrill Lynch and the ouster of its CEO shouldn’t have been that hard. After all, the firm was the top underwriter of collateralized debt obligations, those packages of securities that were so hard hit by the subprime mortgage collapse.
But few […]

China’s State Food and Drug Administration has been showing signs of cracking down on the nation’s drug industry, but the hundreds or thousands of Chinese chemical companies that sell raw ingredients to foreign pharmaceutical manufacturers are still going unregulated, the NYT reports.
“We have never investigated a chemical company,” the deputy director of policy and regulation […]

As the politicians jostle for support on health-care issues, they’re monitoring the pulse of the small-business community. And now the small-business community is upping its game.
On the Journal’s Washington Wire blog, Laura Meckler reports that tomorrow morning, the National Federation of Independent Business, which helped kill the Clinton health plan in 1994, is joining with […]

(New York)—David H. Cameron was appointed chief executive and president of Boston Company Asset Management, a subsidiary of this financial services company. Mr. Cameron, 51, succeeds Corey A. Griffin, 46, who remains chairman. Mr. Cameron was chief investment officer of the subsidiary, and is succeeded by John Truschel, 47, director of portfolio strategy.

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