American Public Media, Marketplace, February 3, 2012 Host Adriene Hill
http://bit.ly/AmmQpL

One of the problems between December and January is that there are a lot of seasonal holiday oriented jobs that can cause those December numbers to look larger than they really are. And so, some of those December jobs go away because they were always meant to be temporary positions.

Corporate Counsel, February 2, 2012 by Catherine Dunn
http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleFriendlyCC.jsp?id=1202541007095

Another area that may draw questions is how Facebook values its assets. Given the Internet tech sector’s reliance on intangible assets—such as intellectual property rights and their growth opportunities in a rapidly changing field—”this is sometimes quite difficult for a lot of tech companies,” says Talley…. The question becomes, “How do I value the network effect of the fact that Facebook is, by an order of magnitude, the largest social networking site in the world?” he says.

San Francisco Chronicle, October 13, 2011 by David R. Baker
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/12/BU1A1LGVP3.DTL&type=business

“When a CEO gets into a position where the company may be facing criminal prosecution or a criminal investigation, the likelihood of the CEO leaving gets pretty high,” said Eric Talley, co-director of the UC Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy.

-Reuters, September 16, 2011 by Mary Slosson
http://reut.rs/pyG2Zk

“As a general matter, this could be a cautionary tale about trying to litigate the bejeezus out of an unhappy situation,” Talley said.

-The Wall Street Journal, September 17, 2011 by Liz Moyer
http://on.wsj.com/nlikg8

“This may have been more than anything else a very unsettling divorce,” said Eric Talley, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley. “They ended up in an arms race of litigation.”

Reuters, September 9, 2011 by Mary Slosson
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/09/us-gundlach-tcw-tradesecret-idUSTRE7885OJ20110909

“In the financial services industry, trade secrets relate to some underlying valuation model or algorithm,” said Eric Talley, director of the University of California Berkeley Center for Law, Business, and the Economy. “That’s sometimes quite difficult to prove. These are specifics that are often very confusing even to professional business people and accountants.”

KQED-FM, Forum, July 25, 2011 Host Michael Krasny
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201107250900

“Well, one of the most interesting things about Dodd-Frank, and it’s probably true about most types of financial reform, is that when Congress promulgates these acts, there’s a lot of fact-finding that has to be done to go into filling out the details, and therefore Congress almost necessarily has to kick the can down the road to the various regulatory entities.”

Bay Area News Group, May 21, 2011 by Matthias Gafni
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_18107993

“As long as there’s a genuine belief by the sponsors, even if it’s wrong, it wouldn’t necessarily be false advertising it would just be an incorrect prediction,” Talley said.

Daily Journal, May 17, 2011 by Erica E. Phillips
http://www.dailyjournal.com (registration required; go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)

“One thing became increasingly clear: It’s pretty hard to operate in [corporate and securities law] without having a pretty good understanding of exactly what it is that investment bankers are doing. The stakes have gone up, and the complexity of deals has gone up.”

San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 2011 by James Temple
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/24/BUPR1J4HRL.DTL

“Courts have become more skeptical of these claims, but as the stakes in them have gone up, they’re more frequently asserted as well,” said Eric Talley, co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy. “They have a lower probability of success, but if they succeed they’re worth a lot of money.”

The New York Times, DealBook, March 2, 2011 by Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica
http://nyti.ms/hxDNHH

Now the banks are reporting on their own internal capital plans based on their own asset assessment. “It could be that banks have been really assiduous about own risk portfolios,” Professor Talley said. “Or it could be that too much control over the process has been handed over to banks. It’s hard to tell.”