Thomas J Mackell Jr

Milberg Sponsors Second Annual Conference for Institutional Investors on July 26th

Reforming the Financial Sector - Charles Ferguson, director and producer of the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, will provide an overview of the financial crisis and discuss the impediments to, and prospects for, serious reform of the sell-side financial sector. Saving Pension Funds: "It's Worth the Fight "- Thomas J. Mackell, Jr., former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and author of When the Good Pensions Go Away: Why America Needs a New Deal for Pension and Health Care Reform , will talk about the important role pension funds play in pushing for meaningful shareholder reforms and why recent policy changes in Wisconsin and Ohio could threaten that role. Corporate Governance Roundtable: Tackling Issues Facing Trustees and Fiduciaries - A panel of experts will address hot topics in corporate governance reform, from say-on-pay to the future of pension funds and their impact on meaningful proxy voting and director election. The New Regulatory Reality: Today's Battleground - Former government regulators and fund managers will discuss how new regulations, including the Dodd-Frank Act, will impact shareholders' rights, responsibilities, and ability to effect reform. Decoding Mixed Messages From the Courts - A distinguished panel of former judges and legal experts will discuss current and future trends in litigation impacting shareholders, including recent Supreme Court decisions.

Speakers will include: Hon. William T. Allen, Former Chief Judge, Delaware Court of Chancery; Todd Benjamin, Analyst, CNN; Amy Borrus, Deputy Director, Council of Institutional Investors; Hon. Herman Cahn, Of Counsel, Milberg LLP; Arthur Cheliotes, President Local 1180, Communications Workers of America; Hon. Marina Corodemus, Retired New Jersey State Judge, Corodemus & Corodemus; Sanford P.

Elder Law Prof Blog: Guest essay by elder law attorney Ron ...

   I saw this on a bumper sticker the other day and was sure, given how both funny and profound it is, that some old, wise sage was the source, but Google turned up nothing. So, notwithstanding Ecclesiastes 1:9 (see http://www.bartleby.com/108/21/1.html , although my personal favorite is  9:11, see http://www.bartleby.com/108/21/9.html ), sometimes there is something new under the sun.    It neatly summarizes the current policy debate. The great social legislation of the 20th Century, born of the New Deal response to the Great Depression, and the New Deal's last progeny, Medicare and Medicaid, is under attack by people who do not believe in the Great Depression - that is, they view it sort of like the tooth fairy, something you can believe in or not.    There is no better illustration of modern-day conservatives' blind eye to the past than their focus on Social Security. Time was when the mantra for retirement planning was the "three-legged stool." "Historically, benefit managers at companies, when counseling their soon-to-be-retiring employees, would always refer to the three legs that would support their retirement: Social Security benefits, a plan-sponsored pension and an individual's or family's personal savings." This from a Huffington Post column by Thomas J. Mackell, Jr., June 18, 2008, confirming my own recollection of what I was taught as a young lad.    What has happened to the pension plans that American corporations were to sponsor and fund? Many people have 401(k)s, but the defined benefit plan that private industry was supposed to provide as its contribution to its employees' long term welfare is a thing of the past. Many of those plans that did not convert to 401(k)s have resorted to the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, where benefits are limited and where the Federal government will likely be the insurer of last resort.    If the GOP (rhymes with ... - see Landsman's Lagniappe, Vol.2, No.2, http://www.ronmlandsman.com/content/uploads/Volume-II-Number-2.pdf ) were to gets its way, Medicare and Social Security would be eviscerated and what little financial market regulation we have would be rendered toothless and we would have another Great Depression.

When the good pensions go away, why Americans need a new deal for pension and health care reform

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Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation

David L. Cole, an analysis of his philosophy of labor relations and its impact on the development of the New York State Taylor Law

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