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 E-DIRT
Alert
Special
Edition - Sarbanes-Oxley
August 28, 2002
Your RPPT Section Electronic
Resource
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Sarbanes-Oxley: What
You Need to Know
Several Section members mentioned at the Annual
Meeting that the recently enacted Sarbanes-Oxley
Act of 2002 may have a significant impact on
transaction attorneys other than pure securities
lawyers. Many of our members deal with securities
issues and corporate clients, so we decided
it would be beneficial to share recently compiled
information on this topic. Attached are two
recent client information memos, one by
Dorsey & Whitney and one by Fulbright
& Jaworski LLP, both of whom have graciously
permitted EDirt to circulate them to our readership.
In addition, the ABA provided a teleconference
on August 8, 2002, which was the first in a
series of ongoing teleconference programs on
this topic. The Business Law Section will be
hosting a follow-up program on October 9, 2002.
Click
here to Register. That program will be available
shortly for order
online from the ABA.
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ARTICLES
Sarbanes-Oxley
Act of 2002: What You Need to Know Now
by Dorsey & Whitney
This article provided
courtesy of Thomas Martin, Esq. (Martin.Tom@dorseylaw.com)
The
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002:
An Ambitious Congressional Attempt at Regulating
the Behavior of Corporate America and Its Advisors
by Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
This article provided
courtesy of John Hollyfield, Esq. jhollyfield@fulbright.com
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SPECIAL
NOTICES
BILLABLE HOURS: Readers may recall that
EDirt circulated a request from the ABA Presidential
Commission seeking participation in an ABA-wide
survey on billable hours. That report is now
complete and available, together with the staff
comment, to anyone at the
commission's web page. To those of you who
participated in the survey, thank you.
 Accountability
for unprofessional conduct: Your editor
received an email from the LPM Section which
he thought would be of interest to the Section.
A conference is scheduled for September 27-29,
2002 in Charleston, SC dealing with concerns
about the accountability of lawyers for unprofessional
conduct. Details are provided on
the Professionalism of Lawyers and Judges web
page for those interested.
This is certainly related to many of the issues
raised by Sarbanes-Oxley, as well as (at least
peripherally if not directly) the issues surrounding
the pending "gatekeeper" initiative
of the US Justice Department and other branches
of the US government (as ably reported on and
being monitored by our RP Division Chair, Kevin
Shepherd -- see the attached final report
on the Gatekeeper Initiative; and then be sure
to read the upcoming issue of Probate &
Property, which will contain an article by Kevin
Shepherd discussing the Gatekeeper Initiative
and its potential effect upon real estate practitioners).
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WIN
A BOOK!
first annual section
crossword Puzzle! Be the first to solve
the Puzzle and win a book!
Note: We have not yet received
a fully complete and correct answer to the crossword
puzzle on real estate topics in this month's
EDirt. Accordingly, the contest is still "on"
and the prize remains to be awarded.
We are surprised that we appear
to have stumped more than 16,000 real estate
attorneys and their firms, none of whom seem
to have been able to solve the puzzle yet. We
hope you will keep trying.
Good luck!
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Contact
Cheryl Kelly, Newsletter Acquisitions Editor
at ckelly@thompsoncoburn.com
to advise of substantive topics you would like to
see covered in E-Dirt or to submit materials for
publication.
We
also invite you to forward the addresses of helpful
websites for us to consider publishing in upcoming
editions.
Section
members interested in participating in the production
of E-Dirt should contact Michael D. Goler,
E-Dirt Managing Editor, at goler@goodmanweissmiller.com
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The E-DIRT
Newsletter is prepared by the On-line Newsletter
Committee:
Michael D. Goler, Managing Editor goler@goodmanweissmiller.com
and
Cheryl Kelly, Acquisitions Editor ckelly@thompsoncoburn.com
If you have
technological questions about E-DIRT, contact Rob
King, RPPT Section Technology Manager at kingr@staff.abanet.org
(312) 988-5540.
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Thank
you for reading E-Dirt and for your participation
in the ABA Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section.
Copyright
© 2002 American Bar Association
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