Month: October 2003

Thanks to Dave Baker at Benefitslink.com for a link to this post and for sending a horde of readers to Benefitsblog last Friday to find the answer to this question: “What is a Serbonian bog?” (A kind reader left some enlightening comments on the subject if you have not yet found them.)

ERIC has published this very meaningful chart prepared by Covington Burling, outlining the significant issues in the case of Tittle v. Enron, discussed in many previous posts which you can access here. (An earlier post referred to a chart outlining the Enron case which was prepared by the Groom Law Group.)

Mike O’Sullivan at Corp Law Blog gives us some details regarding the very unusual Microsoft Stock Option Transfer Program in posts here and here.

CBS MarketWatch reports: “Guidance system: Congress hammering out 401(k) advice law.” The article discusses the need for a bill introduced by Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., last week, entitled “the Retirement Security Advice Act of 2003” (S. 1698)–that would provide workers with access to professional investment advice to help them make more informed decisions about their investment options. The bill has been referred to the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. You can access information about the bill here.

The Heritage Foundation supports the bill as indicated in this Executive Memorandum: “Congress Should Improve Workers’ Access to Better Advice for Retirement Investing.” The Memorandum describes the bill as follows:

H.R. 1000 and S. 1698 amend ERISA to allow a “fiduciary advisor” to offer prudent and objective investment advice that is solely in the interest of retirement plan participants. Plan managers would be required to select the best advisors available and monitor their activities. The advisors would have to disclose in writing their relationship to any company that offers products through the retirement plan as well as any fees or other compensation that they would receive. These disclosures would have to be made when the relationship is established and annually thereafter. Workers would have the ability to accept or reject any investment advice they receive.

Jim Calloway, Director, OBA Management Assistance Program, provides some great tips for choosing law office software in this Oklahoma Bar Journal article: “Picking the ‘Best’ Law Office Software.” (Jim also wrote the article for the American Bar Association entitled “Of Blogs, Bloggers, and Blawgs ” which you can access in links over on the right under “What is a blog?” The article first appeared in the Oklahoma Bar Journal.)

Mayer, Brown Rowe & Maw has a wealth of information at this site: Appellate.net. There are some great links to explore here as well as a listing of links to federal court and state supreme court judges biographies which you can access here.