One more point I should have made in introducing this blog:  I plan to continue to express my views on securities law issues on this blog and hope I might be joined eventually by other contributors who will express views that I won’t agree with.  Whatever views are expressed on this blog, whether by me or by another contributor, they do not represent the views of the company.  The company, in fact, doesn’t have any views on securities law at all.  If it ever forms any and states them, they will be explicitly characterized as the views of the company—and not on this blog.  In fact, I don’t plan to express company views on any topic on this blog.

Disclaimers unfortunately didn’t work very well for William Patry, but I’m hopeful that the many obvious differences between his situation and mine will make the difference here.

This is a new blog about securities law, associated with our developing securities law module.  For now, I am the only blogger here, and the subject is primarily securities fraud case law, since that’s what the module is mostly about so far. The posts prior to this one have been copied here from my personal blog, which consequently finds itself, at too young an age, suffering from doubts as to its reason for existence.

Like the rest of Spindle Law, this blog is an experiment.  Our little securities sub-module on SEC Rule 10b-5—built to a great extent by me, but with many important contributions from others—has been our test and demonstration piece for some time.   Although other, more knowledgable chief editors are now developing modules in their areas of expertise, I am, for the time being, at least, continuing to oversee and contribute regularly to the 10b-5 section.  Staying on as a kind of interim chief editor keeps me involved with the actual functioning of the research system, including new features as we add them, and helps me to maintain a lawyer’s perspective on it.  It’s also interesting and fun for me (as is most of what I do at Spindle).

I decided to start blogging about securities material, because I had the feeling that some of what I was learning by working with these fraud cases might be of interest or use to others (at least to the kind of people who love to curl up at night with a good SEC order).  Since just about everything I’m blogging about here is connected with something in the securities module, I’ve been adding comments within the module with links to the blog, and vice versa.  (I’m also adding comments within the module with links to other people’s blogs and to other relevant material online.)  This way, it will be easily accessible to researchers of particular legal issues on the research system as well as to followers of the blog (and, either way, through search engines, once we’re out of private alpha).  In this way, I hope this blog will be a good test of how or how not to connect what we’re doing inside the research system with what’s happening elsewhere.

Depending on how this all develops, we may add other bloggers here, or I may turn the whole blog over to others.  We’ll see.