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Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

2018

Singapore Management University

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Individual Lawyers, The Sec Revolving Door, And Comment Letters, Michael Shen, Samuel T. Tan Jun 2018

Individual Lawyers, The Sec Revolving Door, And Comment Letters, Michael Shen, Samuel T. Tan

Research Collection School Of Accountancy

Government officials, advocacy groups, and the business press have raised concerns that former SEC employees may continue to influence the SEC after leaving the agency. Using a hand-collected database of individual lawyers that represent firms in responding to SEC comment letters, we examine the impact of individual lawyers, and lawyers formerly employed by the SEC, on the comment letter process. We document significant differences between lawyers and law firms in their clients’ resistance to SEC comment letters, and find that firms that retain former SEC employees are larger, more profitable, and more likely to have received a comment letter raising …


Negotiating The Legal Systems In Asean, Kee Yang Low, Philip Charles Zerrillo May 2018

Negotiating The Legal Systems In Asean, Kee Yang Low, Philip Charles Zerrillo

Asian Management Insights

One may ask: What is a thought piece on legal systems doing in a business magazine?