For
more information, please contact:
Gwen Osborne, director
of public affairs, (312) 906-5251
ADVISORY TO PRODUCERS, COLUMNISTS AND ASSIGNMENT, LEGAL,
PLANNING, BUSINESS, AND DAYBOOK EDITORS
CHICAGO-- August 2, 2004--Chicago-Kent College
of Law, the Stuart Graduate School of Business and the Center
for Financial Markets have experts available to discuss current
issues. To reach any of our experts, call Gwen
Osborne, director of public affairs, at (312) 906-5251. Copies
of press releases and earlier advisories are available on our
Web site: http://www.kentlaw.edu/news/
U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama's high-tech campaign uses
the Internet to give his supporters updated information, recruit
volunteers, raise funds and organize meetings. The Obama campaign
reported that on the evening he delivered the keynote address
at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, his Web site
was averaging 350 hits per second and he received nearly $60,000
in campaign contributions. Chicago-Kent professor Richard
Warner is president of Standards Association for Elections
Online (SAFE), a nonprofit organization that develops standards
and practices for online campaign activity and endorses third-party
monitors who certify campaign Web sites as abiding by SAFE standards.
Professor Warner is available for interviews about SAFE and Internet
campaigns.
President Richard M. Nixon resigned from office August 9, 1974. One month
later, President Gerald R. Ford gave his predecessor a "full,
free and absolute" pardon for "all offenses against
the United States" during Nixon's years as president. Chicago-Kent
dean Harold J. Krent
is a constitutional scholar who is an expert on executive privilege
and presidential pardons. He is available for interviews.
The opening ceremonies of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games
will be held in Athens on August 13. The Olympic Village has opened
and the International Olympic Committee's Anti-Doping rules are
in effect and will be in force until the games end August 29.
All athletes are subject to tests for banned substances at any
place and time without prior warning. Sports attorney and adjunct
professor Eldon L. Ham, author of The 100 Greatest Sports
Blunders of All Time, is available for interviews.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was enacted in July of 2002 in
the aftermath of several high profile business scandals as a way
to restore investor confidence in publicly traded companies. Under
provisions of the law, CEOs and CFOs face civil and criminal penalties
and fines for filing inaccurate corporate statements. Although
chief information security officers are not directly accountable
for the accuracy of the information contained in filings required
by Sarbanes-Oxley, they are responsible for implementing policies,
practices, and systems necessary to ensure compliance with law.
Sharon O'Bryan, a former senior vice president, chief information
security officer and chief privacy officer at ABN AMRO, currently
is president of O'Bryan Advisory Services. She is available to
discuss the role of chief information security officers with regard
to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. O'Bryan is also available to discuss
Chicago-Kent's new CPE Certificate Program in Technology Law.
What are the top ten reasons hedge funds don't need increased
SEC oversight? The Securities and Exchange Commission has
approved a proposal that would require hedge fund advisers with
15 or more clients and $25 million in assets to register with
the agency. But Professor Keith
H. Black of the Center for Financial Markets at Stuart
Graduate School of Business says the increased scrutiny is unnecessary.
Professor Black, the author of a forthcoming book, Managing
a Hedge Fund, is available to discuss his list.
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