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Roger M. Groves

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The Implications Of A Jeopardy! Computer Named Watson: Beating Corporate Boards Of Directors At Fiduciary Duties?, Roger M. Groves Dec 2010

The Implications Of A Jeopardy! Computer Named Watson: Beating Corporate Boards Of Directors At Fiduciary Duties?, Roger M. Groves

Roger M. Groves

Millions of documents, including five million messages, termed electronically stored information (“ESI”) from the Enron litigation have provided an opportunity for software developers to create software that analyzes ESI for behaviors of computer users in more provocative and innovative ways than previously encountered. The law is struggling to clarify e-discovery rules, but the ambiguities provide an opportunity for counsel to manipulate or take advantage of forensic investigations. In this article, the author examines the potential exploitation of e-discovery forensic tools by shareholders of a corporation that suspect a breach of fiduciary duties by members of the board of directors.


A Radical Route To Funding Urban Revitalization: Profitable Philanthropy Through Limited Liability Companies And A Market-Based Return On Investments, Roger M. Groves Dec 2010

A Radical Route To Funding Urban Revitalization: Profitable Philanthropy Through Limited Liability Companies And A Market-Based Return On Investments, Roger M. Groves

Roger M. Groves

This article provides an incentive-laden model for increasing equity investments into urban communities. As stated in the article: “The issue posed in this article is simple. Why should we restrict the return on investment of those we beg to invest in charitable causes? The answer is far more complicated.” This involves the creative use of limited liability companies as joint venture vehicles between private foundations and for-profit entities and individuals. Specific amendments to existing regulations are also crafted. From research to date, there is no scholarly publication that uses such a model to suggest nonprofit organizations should have the ability …


 New Age Athletes As Social Entrepreneurs; Proposing A Philanthropic Paradigm Shift And Creative Use Of Limited Liability Company Joint Ventures, Roger M. Groves Dec 2010

 New Age Athletes As Social Entrepreneurs; Proposing A Philanthropic Paradigm Shift And Creative Use Of Limited Liability Company Joint Ventures, Roger M. Groves

Roger M. Groves

This article models a means for professional athletes to more effectively use their private foundations, particularly in joint ventures with profit entities thorugh the use of limited liability companies.


More Private Equity, Less Government Subsidy, And More Tax Efficiency In Urban Revitalization, Roger M. Groves Dec 2008

More Private Equity, Less Government Subsidy, And More Tax Efficiency In Urban Revitalization, Roger M. Groves

Roger M. Groves

MORE PRIVATE EQUITY, LESS GOVERNMENT SUBSIDY, AND MORE TAX EFFICIENCY IN URBAN REVITALIZATION: Modeling Profitable Philanthropy and Investment Incentives In hopes of revitalizing depressed urban areas, US tax policy has been to use tax credits as a major incentive to induce private equity re-investment. But those give away subsidies to private investors have failed to have transformative effects, and come at a price in the billions to the public treasury. This article seeks a shift in the tax policy paradigm to increase the private equity investment, while reducing tax subsidy dependence. For the philanthropic urban investor, the short term incentive …


Facebook 2 Blackberry And Database Trading Systems: Morphing Social Networking To Business Growth In A Global Recession, Roger M. Groves Dec 2008

Facebook 2 Blackberry And Database Trading Systems: Morphing Social Networking To Business Growth In A Global Recession, Roger M. Groves

Roger M. Groves

FACEBOOK 2 BLACKBERRY AND DATABASE TRADING SYSTEMS: MORPHING SOCIAL NETWORKING TO BUSINESS GROWTH IN A GLOBAL RECESSION Summary Facebook has now applications to the Blackberry Smartphone and IPhone. And Facebook has exploded internationally. If the Facebook social networking technology has applications to Blackberry, why not business? And as any business looks for growth, the market is not an existing heavily saturated United States, but a global market. Can the Facebook model of data sharing be customized to propel US technology firms into new international markets? This article claims the affirmative, through a multilateral clearing system, with credits and vouchers, as …


Time To Step Up: Modeling The African American Ethnivestor For Self Help Entrepreneurship In Urban America, Roger M. Groves Dec 2006

Time To Step Up: Modeling The African American Ethnivestor For Self Help Entrepreneurship In Urban America, Roger M. Groves

Roger M. Groves

Almost $6 billion in taxes paid by the American people have been rather ubiquitously placed in the hands of a federal subsidy program for investors in low income communities. The subsidy is in the form of a tax credit. The program is entitled the New Markets Tax Credit (“NMTC”) initiative. Under the program, the tax credit is used to lure investors to provide equity capital into low income areas, urban and/or rural (i.e. a new market for equity funding). According to my companion law review article (Florida Tax Review, Spring, 2007; The Florida Tax Review was ranked 1st among tax …