The Temple 10-Q

Bringing Big-Data Analytics to Law

Legal academics are in the business of coming up with new ideas and research results, but it’s not often that a research project in law produces a new technology. That rare brand of lightning has struck the Law School’s Public Health Law Research Program, producing Temple Law’s first technology transfer spin-off and, we hope, changing

The New Delaware One-Step: DGCL Section 251(h) Revolutionizes Delaware Merger Practice

by Christopher M. DiVirgilio, (LAW '10)

Section 251(h) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “DGCL”) became effective on August 1, 2013 and is quickly becoming a staple of mergers and acquisitions practice. In certain circumstances, Section 251(h) expedites friendly acquisitions by eliminating the need for a stockholder vote on a second-step merger following consummation of a tender or exchange offer

The Value of “Legal Issues in Strategic Business Planning”

by Elena R. Noel, (LAW '14)

The “Legal Issues in Strategic Business Planning” course is an excellent opportunity for students who are interested in practicing law in an in-house setting, or in learning generally how to deal with clients. The course is offered in conjunction with the Fox School of Business’s Enterprise Management Consulting Practice (EMC). The EMC program allows Fox

The Purpose of a Corporation: A Brief History

by Harwell Wells (Temple Professor of Law)

What is the purpose of a corporation? Today, the standard answer is that a corporation’s purpose is to benefit its shareholders – academics speak of the “shareholder primacy norm,” and many talk of corporate managers’ task as “shareholder wealth maximization.” Even apparently selfless corporate acts, such as charitable donations, are justified as ultimately benefiting shareholders

The New Investor

by Tom C.W. Lin

A sea change is happening in finance. Machines appear to be on the rise and humans on the decline. Human endeavors have become unmanned endeavors. Human thought and human deliberation have been replaced by computerized analysis and mathematical models. Technological advances have made finance faster, larger, more global, more interconnected, and less human. Modern finance

Conversation with Murray Shusterman

by Books Schatschneider

Murray Shusterman, Senior Counsel at Fox Rothschild, LLP and Temple Law School Class of 1936, sits down with Professor Rob Bartow to talk about his enrollment in Temple Law School’s first day division class, his time as a Deputy City Solicitor of Philadelphia, and how students find their legal calling.

Forging New Paths: Ajay Raju on Innovation

by Books Schatschneider

Harold E. Kohn Chair and Professor of Law Jonathan Lipson talks with Ajay Raju (LAW ’96), Partner at Reed Smith, about professional success and innovation in legal education and practice.

Temple’s Business Law Society

by Andreas N. Andrews (LAW '14)

If you are a Temple law student interested in business law, where do you go? One answer is the Business Law Society (“BLS”), a student run organization dedicated to educating peers in the field of business law by providing networking opportunities with various legal practitioners in business-related fields, local corporate counsel, faculty and staff, and

The Impact of Boilermakers v. Chevron

by S. Michael Sirkin, (LAW '09)

Directors of Delaware corporations can now prohibit the corporation’s stockholders from suing them anywhere except Delaware. This is the long-awaited result of a June 25, 2013 decision in Boilermakers Local 154 Retirement Fund, et al., v. Chevron Corp., et al. , C.A. No. 7220-CS (June 25, 2013, Del. Ch.). In Boilermakers, the Delaware Court of

Tax is Not All Rules

by Alice G. Abreu and Richard K. Greenstein

The tax law has a lot of rules. But although no statute conjures a more vivid or immediate picture of complex and detailed rules than the Internal Revenue Code, we have spent the last couple of years showing that tax law is not all about rules. In what are now two articles but will soon