SEC Chairman Christopher Cox addressed the 2007 Corporate Counsel Institute this week and emphasized the SEC’s commitment to the use of plain English. As I have mentioned previously in this blog, the SEC has been a long-time champion of plain English and its website includes a helpful “Plain English Handbook.” According to Cox, the SEC [...]

If you read legal blogs at all, you have probably seen the recent posts about citations to Wikipedia in judicial opinions and law journal articles.   Daniel J. Solove  at Concurring Opinions asks the next question – when is citation to Wikipedia appropriate?  He gives ten examples of citations to Wikipedia and asks for comments on [...]