Kenneth D. Gartrell

By: Kenneth D. Gartrell
The ongoing wave of white-collar crime prosecutions recently led by a spree of option-backdating cases raises some important economic questions about how to measure harm for sentencing purposes and some equally important questions about the relationship of overlapping civil and criminal proceedings.
There appears to be a search in the legal […]

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By: Kenneth D. Gartrell
I am not a lawyer. So, maybe a lawyer can explain to me how in our securities law under Section 10-(b) we can abide different standards of economic analysis to arrive at judgments about essentially the same thing. I was confronted with this paradox of proof for the first time when […]

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