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A recent Wall Street Journal article noted that there were more than 7,400 companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges in 1996 around the beginning of the dot-com fueled bull market. That number has been cut in half through the first quarter of 2018.

On March 15, 2018, the U.S. Senate took a major step in changing the landscape of financial regulation by passage of the Economic Growth Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act, with a strong bipartisan vote of 67-31.

The old saying of “your wish is my command” is often employed when one party’s wish for something to happen becomes another’s command to action to make it happen.

On Dec. 7, 2017, in a case styled as Tilley v. Malvern Nat’l Bank, 2017 Ark. 343, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that certain contractual provisions providing for the waiver of a jury trial are unenforceable. The Supreme Court reasoned in part that waiving the right to a jury trial before litigation arises is unconstitutional.

Attorney Robert Smith was interviewed by Arkansas Business regarding a recent Arkansas Supreme Court decision that determined pre-dispute contractual waivers of the right to a jury trial are unenforceable under the Arkansas Constitution.

Robert Smith's article on CIBC Act compliance challenges was featured this week in Arkansas Business. According to Robert, the federal Change in Bank Control Act may be the most often overlooked — and one of the most often violated — of all banking regulations.

A process to come up with a standard national Chapter 13 Plan has resulted in a number of proposed changes to the Bankruptcy Rules which have a target effective date of December 1, 2017.