Benjamin Edwards In The News

The Hill
For years, transnational criminal networks have targeted Americans with inventive scam operations. According to the Federal Trade Commission, these criminals now wreck more lives than ever before.
The Guardian
Trump says everyday Americans deserve a chance to buy higher-risk ‘alternative’ investments. Critics say this could lead to big losses for small investors
Bloomberg
As Delaware, the country’s long-established corporate capital, saw several high-profile companies leave the state last year, a debate is building whether ‘DExit’ will be a lasting trend.
Mondaq
Aside from Delaware's Court of Chancery, state business courts are relatively new, with New York and Illinois starting commercial dockets in 1993 and other states starting their own systems at a fairly steady pace ever since. As of 2019, more states had their own business courts—either a separate court or aa docket within an existing state court—than didn't.
Law.com
Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada each want to appoint, not elect, the judges that sit on their business courts. But state constitutions vary as to whether they allow those appointments.
WealthManagement.com
The Labor Department is closing the book on the Biden administration’s iteration of the fiduciary rule and dropping its defense of the regulation in court.
C.N.B.C.
Elon Musk has been pushing hard for companies to exit Delaware and reincorporate elsewhere, following the lead of his companies Tesla and SpaceX. Coinbase became the latest to take the leap, announcing this week that it was moving its state of incorporation to Texas from Delaware. Despite Musk’s proclamation that “Delaware continues to bleed companies,” those departing the state make up a distinct minority.
K.V.V.U. T.V. Fox 5
Fortune 500 corporations, some of America’s biggest companies, are moving to Nevada. More than a dozen have changed their official addresses to the Silver State in recent years. But why? FOX5 went one-on-one with a UNLV law professor to find out.