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Elizabeth Warren Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

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Ratings Agencies in the Crosshairs

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Back in the febrile, hyperventilated times that birthed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (blessedly known simply as Dodd-Frank), one of the issues that energized the activists’ intent on “fixing”...more

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Is Private Equity “Ready for Warren?

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Massachusetts Senator and presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren released perhaps the most ambitious plan the country has ever seen with respect to regulation of the private equity and investment fund industry. She released...more

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Professor Sovern Disagrees with Senator Warren and Concedes that Consumers Do Well in Arbitration But Raises Another Red Herring

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Professor Jeff Sovern has responded to our recent blog, “Senator Warren’s Numbers Don’t Add Up,” with a blog of his own. He does not contest the main point of our blog, which was that Senator Warren’s claim that consumers...more

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Senator Warren’s Numbers Don’t Add Up

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In a press release issued earlier this week, Senator Elizabeth Warren argued that the CFPB’s arbitration rule should not be repealed under the Congressional Review Act because consumers recovered “in only 9 percent of the...more

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In Case You Missed It - Interesting Items for Corporate Counsel - November 2016

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Wow. Goodness knows what changes might start flowing after January 20, or how quickly repeal of Dodd-Frank will be proposed. Just for fun, here are two law-related predictions: - Senator Warren’s nutty call to remove...more

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SEC Disclosure Initiative Encounters Resistance on Capitol Hill

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Since 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission, under the direction of Chair Mary Jo White, has undertaken a “Disclosure Effectiveness Initiative” aimed at improving the content and presentation of disclosures by...more

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Senator Elizabeth Warren Criticizes SEC Chair Mary Jo White for “Extremely Disappointing” Leadership

In a letter dated June 2, 2015, Senator Elizabeth Warren described several “promises” that Mary Jo White, chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, had allegedly broken. Senator Warren focused on (1) the SEC’s failure...more

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We’ve Only Just Begun - Lessons From the CFPB’s First 35 Enforcement Cases

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Few agencies have generated as much controversy as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The brainchild of Senator Elizabeth Warren when she was still a professor and the product of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and...more

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