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"Representing Shareholder Activists as an Attorney"
Speaker: Charles H. Dufresne Jr.
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Of Counsel, Sadis & Goldberg LLP
Monday, April
26, 2010
5:45 p.m. - 6:45 p.m.
W203
Charles H. Dufresne Jr. practices in Sadis & Goldberg's Litigation Department, concentrating in corporate governance, shareholder activism, and securities litigation matters. He also provides comprehensive due diligence of alternative investment portfolios on behalf of institutional investors.
Previously, Mr. Dufresne was a managing director with a Singapore-based private equity and hedge fund management firm. He also was a litigator with the highly regarded boutique law firm, Abbey Spanier Rodd and Abrams LLP, specializing in securities litigation and other commercial actions.
Mr. Dufresne is a member of the board of the National Association of State Treasurers (NAST), where he serves as a liaison between institutional investors and state treasurers, and their respective public pension plans. He is also a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Mr. Dufresne frequently lectures on securities law issues and recently spoke at the 2009 NAST Treasury Management Conference & Exposition regarding alternative investment due diligence.
Mr.
Dufresne received a J.D. from New York Law School in 2002, and an M.B.A.
in finance and marketing from Fordham University in 2004.
To watch a video recording of this master class, click here.
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“Competing in a Global Economy”
Speaker: Robert T. Slee
November 23, 2009
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The fifth lecture in the Lawrence Lederman Lecture Series
"Making a Career”
(Regarding first and
subsequent jobs.)
Speaker: Lawrence Lederman
November 18, 2009
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video recording of this master class, click here.
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"Storytelling in Corporate Law"
Speaker: Faith Stevelman
September 16, 2009
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The Delaware Fiduciary Duty of Good Faith after Disney: Meaningful or Mickey Mouse?
Friday, November 13, 2009
9 AM–5:30 PM
New York Law School, 185 West Broadway, NY, NY 10013
In the closely followed Walt Disney litigation that occurred between 2003 and 2006, the Delaware Court of Chancery and the Delaware Supreme Court addressed the fledgling fiduciary duty of “good faith” in ways that raised tantalizing questions about corporate governance. Recently, the Delaware Supreme Court has redefined the contours of the duty of good faith, expressly placing the duty within the duty of loyalty in Stone v. Ritter (2006), and perhaps narrowing the duty in Lyondell Chemical Co. v. Ryan (2009), by stressing that “an arguably imperfect attempt” to carry out fiduciary duties should not be equated with a violation of good faith. What then is the future of the meaning and impact of good faith? At this symposium, leading corporate scholars from the United States and the United Kingdom will analyze the nature and importance of the evolving duty of good faith. Delaware Associate Supreme Court Justice Carolyn Berger, the author of Lyondell, will be available to comment on presentations.
Panels:
I. Good Faith and Fiduciary Theory
II. Good Faith and Compliance with the Law
III. Good Faith in an Institutional Context
IV. The Delaware Duty of Good Faith after Stone v. Ritter and Lyondell v. Ryan.
Speakers:
Hon. Carolyn Berger, Commentator, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Delaware
William W. Bratton, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Christopher M. Bruner, Associate Professor of Law, Washington & Lee School of Law
James D. Cox, Brainerd Currie Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Simon Deakin, Professor of Law, University of Cambridge
Kent Greenfield, Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
John Humbach, Professor of Law, Pace University Law School
Kristin Johnson, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
Renee Jones, Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
Peter C. Kostant, Symposium Organizer, Visiting Professor of Law, New York Law School
Mae Kuykendall, Professor of Law, Michigan State University College of Law
Lawrence Lederman, Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law, New York Law School
Richard Painter, S. Walter Richey Professor of Corporate Law, University of Minnesota Law School
Alan Palmiter, Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law
Faith Stevelman, Professor of Law, Director of the Center on Business Law & Policy, New York Law School
Robert B. Thompson, New York Alumni Chancellor’s Chair and Professor of Management, Vanderbilt University Law School
For the official flyer, please click here.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Information Industry
Date: October 23, 2009
Time: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Location: 185 West Broadway - 2nd Floor Events Center
The conference will bring together entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, information managers and university technology transfer officers for a daylong exploration of the information industry today, and information needs of tomorrow. Entrepreneurship issues as they apply to the information industry will be explored.
Speakers include Clay Shirky, Professor, New York University, author of "Here Comes Everybody," Owen Davis, Managing Director, NYC Seed, Edward Reinfurt, Executive Director, NYSTAR, Jim Kollegger, Genesys Partners, Vincent Tomaselli, Deputy Director, Columbia Center for Advanced Information Management, Daniel Shutzer, President, Financial Services Technology Consortium, and Dr. Steven Neiman, Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase.
RSVP: http://labtomarket.syr.edu/ There is no charge
for the conference, but registration is required.
For a full conference agenda, please visit: http://www.nyls.edu/centers/harlan_scholar_centers/institute_for_information_law_and_policy/events
The conference is sponsored by NYSTAR and is being coordinated by the NYS Science and Technology Law Center at Syracuse University Law School and the Institute for Information Law and Policy and the Center for Business Law and Policy, both at NYLS.
"Kickoff the Semester" Cocktail Party
Date: Monday, September 14, 2009
Time: 5:30pm-7:30pm
Location: Event Center in our new building
The cocktail party will take place in the Events Center in our new building.
Please RSVP to jonathanadler@law.nyls.edu if you plan on attending.
Hope to see you there!
Center on Business Law & Policy Spring Symposium
"Fear, Fraud and the Future of Financial Regulation"
Information one the conference, please click here.
Friday, April 24, 2009, 9:15 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Wellington Conference Center
