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...illegal insider trading is hardly a clear one. Technically, no laws ban trading on non-public information; prosecutions are based on legal theories that were developed in earlier court cases. "It's one of those areas where the courts say, 'I know it when I see it,' " says Gerald Lefcourt, a white-collar criminal defense lawyer in New York and past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. (See pictures of the top 10 scared stock traders...
...woman referred to in the police report wasn’t in the country at the time,” Lefcourt said Wednesday, referring to the affidavit. “I do know that it was impossible to have happened...
...Formula," an exhibition of New York-based artists rounded up by one of Oni's original founders, Cheyney Thompson, who migrated there recently. Thompson's "1839," a series of acrylic paintings of woodbeam-and-brick cross-sections on transparent organza, exposes infrastructural delicacy. Also with Nathan Carter, Daniel Lefcourt, Tim Seiber and Bettina Sellman, whose installation, "the absence of dreaming," encases mute forms in satin...
They skipped spring break--and most of their classes--to finish their plan. In May 1998 they secured VC funding. The next month, they quit Stanford. "It wasn't a hard decision," says Lefcourt, sitting in the company's office, which is luxurious by start-up standards. "The things I was trying to get out of business school I'm getting right here...
...Lefcourt and Herrin are poster girls for the Valley's new emphasis on business creativity. "I've never been conscious of being a woman in doing this," says Herrin. But there are still moments when it confronts them. When she walked into a meeting with Kleiner Perkins, Lefcourt "looked around and thought, 'This room is huge and filled with men.' It occurred to me then that I must be a woman." And yet their pitch was convincing precisely because they could explain the nuances of wedding registries to highly credulous men. "We had an instinctive understanding of something they didn...