- MSRB Webinar: Amended Rules on Mark-Up Disclosure and Prevailing Market Price.
- 2016 Year-End Review: Squire Patton Boggs
- Water Research Foundation Publishes Report on Infrastructure Funding.
- GAAP Update Digital Recording Now Available.
- GASB Issues Invitation to Comment in Project Designed to Improve Financial Reporting Model.
- FINRA 2017 Exam Priorities Include MA Registration, Best Execution.
- UBS Financial Services Inc. v. Asociación de Empleados del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico – District Court holds that substance of client’s arbitral claims against investment consulting and brokerage service providers, alleging misrepresentation by service providers in connection with investments in Puerto Rico municipal bonds, arose under federal law, and thus federal question jurisdiction existed for court to hear service providers’ petition to confirm arbitration award under Federal Arbitration Act.
- And finally, Greene v. Succession of Alvarado this week brings us the story of one Donald Greene who – understandably unaccustomed to the concept of icy roads – was stunned to find his truck suddenly skating down a bridge on Louisiana’s intercoastal highway. When the caroming finally ceased, Mr. Greene made the rookie mistake of exiting the vehicle, where he was promptly flung from the bridge by the next vehicle to come slaloming along. I understand that you of more northerly climes may be tempted to cast the proverbial first snow plow. But then again, would you know what to do when attacked by an Oyster Po’ Boy? Would you?