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Legal experts agreed the week had not gone well for Stewart. Greg Markel, chair of the litigation department at the New York City--based law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, says revealing the email backfired, and Apfel may have created a chasm between the two defense camps. "It seems to me it was never a particularly strong point for Bacanovic," says Markel. "And for Martha, it played completely differently. She just looks like an ogre...
...Several defense attorneys and former prosecutors say it would be difficult to make a criminal insider-trading case against the pair because the government would have to prove that Stewart knew the significance of Waksal's sale when she sold the stock. "It's a tricky case," says Greg Markel, a securities-law specialist at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft in New York City. A broker passing along a tip from one client to another "is not that unusual," says John Teakell, a former SEC litigator in Dallas. (In Bacanovic's case, says a defense attorney, "it probably could have been...
...Tony Markel, CEO of the Markel Corp., a specialty insurance firm, tried videoconferencing once before, to save money during the last recession, from 1990 to 1991. But "there were delays in the audio. We were stepping on each other's lines," says Markel, who demands strong communication and teamwork among his brokers in far-flung cities like Richmond, Va.; Toronto; Paris; and Sydney, Australia. Soon his employees were back on airplanes, and the expensive video hookups started gathering dust. So after the terror attacks last September, when travel delays were eating up the time of his employees, Markel thought videoconferencing...
...Markel's company ordered seven $60,000 Tandberg 8000s--the Rolls-Royce of videoconferencing--which come equipped with 50-in. plasma screens for high-definition video. Presenters can just plug in their laptop to display data on one of the screens. The Tandberg can simultaneously connect to as many as 10 video sites and four additional audio sites. And the equipment will significantly reduce Markel's travel costs--almost $5 million last year within North America alone...
...though Markel says that Lydon has not had much interaction with law school students outside the Center, he says the interaction with Berkman affiliates has been productive...