This year, 2011, marks the sixtieth anniversary of Arizona’s modern securities laws—the 1951 Securities Act....
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People involved in the process are realizing that putting their heads together in a non-adversarial environment is a better, less expensive way to achieve equity in a volatile economy....
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We have all braced ourselves, trying not to let the person we have just met see us cringe.  It happens when the one we just met, upon learning we're an attorney, cannot resist the temptation.  Our new friend brightens, braces to speak, and after a slight, last second hesitation, the words gush out:  "How can you tell when an attorney is lying?"...
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Imagine that an investor who is a U.S. resident buys a security issued by an English firm.1 Assume that the U.S. Securities Exchange Act governs the transaction. The U.S. antifraud rules protect the U.S. investor, reducing the risk of investing in the security, but these antifraud rules expose the English issuer to risk....
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It was only a few years ago that many “Baby Boomer”
business owners were beginning to strategically position
their businesses for eventual sale. Unfortunately for
many of these owners, the economic upheaval postponed their
retirement schedules as caution pushed potential buyers to the
sidelines....
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Michael E. Tiffany is featured in the January 2011 Attorney at Law Magazine, Greater Phoenix Edition...
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Since 1955, Big Brother Big Sisters of central Arizona has provided support, guidance, friendship and fun by matching children to volunteer mentors....
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PHOENIX, AZ  - October 29, 2010 - The law firm of Tiffany & Bosco P.A. is pleased to announce that attorney J. Daryl Dorsey has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Rosie's House.Mr. Dorsey practices in the area of Commercial Bankruptcy and Creditors Rights. Members of the Rosie's House Board provide their business, philanthropic and artistic experience to oversee the operations of the music academy...
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In the 2008 to 2009 judicial calendar, the Arizona Supreme Court decided a total of six non-violent criminal cases. Of these six cases, two decided issues of first impression and three involved issues of “statewide importance.” Although the factual situations—and the legal issues in general—vary drastically, the court clarified the law in each of the six cases....
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The year was 1967. Super Bowl I pitted the Green Bay Packers against the Kansas City Chiefs. The Beatles released "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." And a young lawyer named Mike Tiffany co-founded a two-man law firm in Phoenix, Arizona....
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The Dallas Cowboys' rookie workout session on May 2, 2009 began like any other at the team's practice facility in the Valley Ranch area of Dallas, Texas. However, the usual questions about quarterback Tony Romo's current girlfriend, the off-field problems of Adam "Pac-Man" Jones, and the decision to cut embattled receiver Terrell Owens, were soon replaced by those questioning the team's liability and decision making following a collapse of the team's six-year old practice facility.The Cowboys, like many other teams in recent years, had built a practice "bubble" to provide a field of play for use under any weather condition....
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Thanks in large part to Phoenix attorney Timothy Burr, on Jan. 1, 2010, Arizona’s new reciprocity rule permitting admission on motion will go into effect....
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Privacy in this new digital era is becoming increasingly difficult to
maintain. Simple Google searches can unearth mountains of information about our adversaries and their lawyers. So it’s quite paradoxical that federal-court records remain secreted behind electronic paywalls like Westlaw, Lexis–Nexis and PACER. The issues of privacy and public access to court records are at the heart of a new dialogue between the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AO) and academics at the Princeton University Center for Information Technology Policy....
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Imagine that Eun-Hee Ji, one of over 100 international players of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), has just held off a field of some of the best women golfers in the world to win a tournament. After she signs her scorecard and receives the trophy she is asked to give the obligatory victory speech to the crowd, fellow competitors, and corporate sponsors that surround her....
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Although securities cases are statutory cases, attorneys commonly begin their securities research with a search for cases. We do not begin by reading the statutes....
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More than 10,000 attorneys are licensed to practice in Arizona, and hundreds, if not thousands, of those work in some capacity in the real estate industry....
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Quantifying the amount of harm caused by corporate criminal conduct is a difficult if not impossible task.  Part of the difficulty stems from the lack of available data. Another difficulty is that corporate crimes often cause more than just financial harm. Quantifying damage to the environment or the loss of investor-market trust that may follow a highly publicized corporate criminal prosecution is inexact, to say the least. Nonetheless, there is little doubt that “U.S. citizens and businesses lose billions of dollars each year to criminals engaged in nonviolent fraudulent enterprises.”

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With the growing popularity of limited liability companies ("LLCs") as the business entity of choice, the question arises as to what fiduciary duties exist within the LLC. Black's Law Dictionary defines a fiduciary duty as "a duty to act for someone else's benefit, while subordinating one's personal interests to that of the other person....
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This past year Arizona's unique Mexico–U.S. border issues received increased national attention. While Arizonans have been working on ways to resolve border-related issues for years, the entire country watched this past year as congressional immigration debates flared up in Washington.

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The economic loss rule is a judicially created defense. When it applies, the defense prevents a plaintiff with contract remedies from recovering finical losses under a tort theory.

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The Tiffany in Tiffany & Bosco PA, a nearly 39-year-old legal firm in the Camelback Esplanade at 24th Street and Camelback Road, ropes cattle. And that's just one of his many interests....
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Seventy-nine years after its humble 26-page debut, The Bluebook has reentered the legal-writing scene in the form of a bright-new 18th edition. ...
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Arizona securities fraud decisions frequently cite federal securities precedent,' particularly decisions under rule 10b-5. Judicial and legislative statements encouraging use of federal case law exist. Yet despite many parallels, there are important differences between the Arizona and federal securities statutes in their text, legislative history and statutory structure....
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There is a genuine concern about the availability of funds for the long-awaited and much anticipated real estate market recovery in Arizona.  With the literal collapse of the savings and loan industry and the current problems being experienced by the banks, these traditional sources of financing cannot now play the role that they did in the past.  The apparent redlining by many out of state lenders and investors has magnified the problem....
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