Read The Recorder‘s roundup of the stock-option backdating scandal. There won’t be a test later … but there might be a subpoena.



Last week, Bingham McCutchen grabbed securities fraud prosecutor Haywood Gilliam from the local U.S. attorney’s office to round out its backdating team.

A large number of firms have set up backdating teams to deal with the flood of work coming from companies seeking help with criminal and SEC probes, related civil suits or their own internal probes.