USC Law will launch its new speaker series, “Conversations with the Dean,” on Thursday, Oct. 12. Dean Edward J. McCaffery will host guests Bob Fairbank, the independent counsel to the lead plaintiff in the Enron class action suit and a USC Law lecturer, and Joe Shew, former CFO for Homestore.com who pleaded guilty to charges of securities fraud in one of the major cases of the dot-com crash.
The discussion will center on the criminal prosecution of Homestore.com and broader lessons learned from the Homestore case and the Enron and WorldCom collapses.