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The American Prospect
February 14, 2018
Some notable critics—Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, the SEC's enforcement chief Stanley Sporkin, federal prosecutor and later trial judge Jed Rakoff—were exceptions. Federal Judge Henry Friendly warned, “In our complex society, the accountant's certificate and the lawyer's opinion can beÃâà...
Commonweal
January 31, 2018
The 2002 cases were in the tradition of the Justice Department's tough attitude toward white-collar crime, in a tradition established by legendary figures like Stanley Sporkin and Paul Pelletier. They were rough-edged and profane, and didn't go to the best law schools, but they were personally offended when very rich, veryÃâà...
Law360
January 31, 2018
By co-opting the gatekeeper mandate of the great Stanley Sporkin, Clayton may be ushering a similarly effective and common-sense epoch. The concept of gatekeeper responsibility has served as the bedrock of the federal securities laws since their enactment — and could provide the ideal statutoryÃâà...
The New Yorker
July 24, 2017
After his death, friends speculated that he had been working too hard, but an alert investigator at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Stanley Sporkin, grew suspicious, noting that people don't just “drop out of windows for no reason.” Black, it emerged, had become embroiled in a bribery scheme.
Compliance Week (blog)
April 4, 2016
In the past two weeks there have been two interesting articles written about SEC enforcement legend Judge Stanley Sporkin. Judge Sporkin, of course, was the SEC's second Director of Enforcement, serving in that role for seven years with accomplishments including a leading role in creating the FCPAÃâà...
Business Insider
August 15, 2011
Stanley Sporkin runs his own law practice advising corporate boards and general counsel on financial and regulatory matters, and heads the British Petroleum America (BP America) ombudsman team. Previously, he served 14 years as a district court judge for the District of Columbia, and spent 20 yearsÃâà...
Law.com
December 31, 1999
In the 1970s, the Honorable Stanley Sporkin, former Director of Enforcement at the SEC, articulated the reasoning behind the SEC's pursuit of cases against attorneys as the “access theory,” an early form of gatekeeper liability—that attorneys and other professionals provided security-issuing principals withÃâà...
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