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- Group members participate regularly in seminars on securities and corporate litigation, complex litigation issues, corporate governance, insurance and indemnification issues, regulatory agency practice and other related matters.
- Tom Richey and John Gross are the founders of the Annual Corporate Litigation Seminar for the Georgia Institute of Continuing Legal Education, currently in its eigth year.
- Scott Sorrels is a co-founder of an annual seminar on securities litigation and enforcement, now in its fifth year.
- The group has published newsletters distributed by a division of American Lawyer Publications throughout the Southeast: in 1998, "Legal Trends: Insider Trading"; in 1997, "Legal Trends: Securities and Corporate Litigation," reporting on current trends in director and officer liability; and in 1996, "Legal Trends: Securities Law," discussing the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
- The group published a monograph entitled "A Guide to Informal Corporate Disclosure and Insider Trading Rules," which has been distributed by NASDAQ Company Services, Inc. to NASDAQ-list companies.
- In 1994, at the request of NASD Corporate Communications, the group published a "Checklist on Unstructured Disclosure" in the NASDAQ Financial Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1.
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"The Role of Board of Directors in Legal Compliance," presented at Corporate Litigation Seminar, November 16, 2001, sponsored by ICLE, Georgia.
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"Audit Committees: Recent Developments and Recent SEC Rulings Affecting Audit Committees and Auditors," by W. Scott Sorrels and Jennifer D. Odom, September 20, 2001.
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"Special Problems in Director Liability: Controlling Shareholder-Directors, Director-Representatives and Lawyer-Directors," presented at seminar entitled "Venture Capital - Legal Issues", March 9, 2001, sponsored by ICLE, Georgia.
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"Director Liability Claims in Bankruptcy," presented at the 4 th Annual CorporateLitigation Seminar, November 17, 2000, sponsored by ICLE, Georgia.
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"Duties and Liabilities of Directors of Financially Troubled Corporations" (coauthored with John R. Bielema), presented at seminar entitled "Workouts, Turnarounds and Restructurings," February 18, 2000, sponsored by ICLE, Georgia.
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"Disputed Stock Ownership, Transactions and Transfers: An Overview" "Hearsay in Corporate Litigation" and "Verdict Form Problems in Corporate Litigation", all presented at the 3 rd Annual Corporate Litigation Seminar, November 19, 1999, sponsored by ICLE, Georgia.
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"Indemnification of Directors and Officer of Georgia Corporations," presented at the 2 nd Annual Corporate Litigation Seminar, November 20, 1998, sponsored by ICLE Georgia.
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"Director and Officer Liability: Issues Relating to The Duty of Care Under Georgia Law - The Standard of Care, exculpation, Business Judgment Rule, Red Flags And Interested Party Transactions," presented at the inaugural Corporate Litigation Seminar, November 21, 1997, sponsored by ICLE, Georgia.
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