“The court can say without exaggeration that it has never encountered a defendant whose prior history suggests such an extraordinary devotion, not only to humanity writ large, but also to individual human beings in their times of need”

That’s one way of looking at it. Judge Rakoff sentences former McKinsey chief Rajat K. Gupta to two years and $5 million fine for insider trading.

See also: Guilty! Former head of McKinsey and Goldman Sachs director convicted of insider trading

50 business commentators, 50 entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter, from Management Today

50 business commentators

50 entrepreneurs (a very predictable list)

DealBook article tries to explain Xstrata’s shareholders dilemma on Glencore vote

“This is a diabolical game of the prisoner’s dilemma“.

Legal education: US law schools focus on producing specialists not generalists

This piece from the New York Times discusses the trend in US law schools to focus on more specialised legal education as a response to the challenges facing the legal sector – the same challenges as in the UK.