When the Hurly Burly's Done: The Bar's Struggle with the SEC

Koniak, Susan P.

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When the Hurly Burly's Done: The Bar's Struggle with the SEC

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 103, No. 1236, 2003

44 Pages Posted: 24 Jan 2015

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Susan P. Koniak

Boston University School of Law

Date Written: 2003

Abstract

The SEC's failed efforts to regulate securities bar and the securities bar's power and push back.

Enron went bust. Global Crossing went bust. WorldCom went bust. And underneath all their apparent gold we found, not mere mistakes, but rot and more rot and more rot still. And the rot had to be named, and it was: accounting scandal. The name stuck, and names matter. Arthur Andersen knows.

Keywords: securities, SEC, legal profession, ethics

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Koniak, Susan P., When the Hurly Burly's Done: The Bar's Struggle with the SEC (2003). Columbia Law Review, Vol. 103, No. 1236, 2003, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2554563