Counsel’s Advisories

April 11, 2003

Counsel’s Advisories

Proposal Asks SEC To Require Disclosure Of Plaintiffs’ Lawyers’ Contacts With Analysts

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Victor E. Schwartz, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP and Peter D. Bernstein, an associate in the firm’s Business Litigation Group, alert readers to a proposal Washington Legal Foundation has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and urge support for it.

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