Boston College Law School Lectures and Presentations

Title

Sarbanes-Oxley and the Role of Lawyers in Public Companies

Document Type

Article

Comments

Lecture delivered at a conference on Sarbanes-Oxley, Columbia University Law School, April 2003. Please note: This lecture draws upon the article "Sarbanes-Oxley Yawn: Heavy Rhetoric, Light Reform (And It Might Just Work)", 35 CONNECTICUT LAW REVIEW 915-988 (2003), reprinted at 34 THE SECURITIES LAW REVIEW (Donald C. Langevoort, ed., 2004), a more formal development of its ideas which should be cited in preference to citing this lecture.

Date of Authorship for this Version

April 2003

Keywords

Sarbanes-Oxley, financial scandals, accounting corruption, Enron, Qwest, Global Crossing, WorldCom, auditing board, auditing, audit firms, audit partners, audit committees, Delaware courts