[servo1969]

William A. Jacobson is Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School. Prof. Jacobson is a 1981 graduate of Hamilton College and a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School. At Harvard he was Senior Editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and Director of Litigation for the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project.

Prior to joining the Cornell law faculty in 2007, Prof. Jacobson had a highly successful civil litigation and arbitration practice in Providence, Rhode Island, concentrating in investment, employment, and business disputes in the securities industry, including many high profile cases reported in leading newspapers and magazines.

Professor Jacobson has a national reputation as a leading practitioner in securities arbitration, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, an organization of over 450 attorneys dedicated to protecting public investors. Professor Jacobson frequently is quoted in national media on issues related to investment fraud and investor protection, and in the past has served as one of a small number of private practice attorneys who trained new arbitrators for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. Professor Jacobson has argued cases in numerous federal and state courts, including the Courts of Appeal for the First, Fifth and Sixth Circuits, and the Rhode Island Supreme Court.

A more complete listing of Professor Jacobson's professional background is available at the Cornell Law School website. The views expressed here are his own and not those of any employer or organization,

The best way to reach Prof. Jacobson is by e-mail is here.

[Darksheare]

Rush is likeable while Bill O’Really is a boorish lying arsehat who hates conservatives.
(Proof of that is in his smear of Freerepublic, repeatedly.)

[Hatteras]

"Sexual harassment is a really big fucking problem in this country," says Carusone.

[submarinerswife]

O’Reilly’s audience was 3.5 million.

Rush’s audience is 20 million.

O’Reilly answers to 21st Century Fox.

Rush answers to nobody. He owns himself.

[bigbob]

Typical lawyer, takes a thousand words to say what we all know already: actions vs. words, and a completely different business model.

Go back to blathering to your Haavahd students now, counsellor.

[freedomlover]

Today Rush will either totally ignore this, or talk about it for 3 hours.

Any bets?

[blueunicorn6]

Hey! I went to grade school with that guy!

We called him Billy Butt Boots.

He wore these tall rubber boots that went all the way up to his behind.

Old Billy Butt Boots.

I always wondered what happened to him.

[Paladin2]

"...big fucking problem...."

Not from what I hear re: BOR..

[RitaOK]

Superb analysis.

“Lovable little fuzz ball” was a regular reference that Rush often made of himself. How many times I doubled over laughing with him.

O’Really was a hard man, humor so dry his face would crack when he heard a laugh escape from his throat. (I’ve never seen anything like him, personally.)

[\/\/ayne]

I said the same thing (but in one or two sentences) to disbelief. Now I can quote a professor with tons of logic and evidence! Take that, disbelievers!

[rlmorel]

"...[Carusone] points out that O'Reilly's issue is not one of free speech but rather of behavior. The charges against him, other Fox colleagues, and Fox itself are serious and mounting. "Sexual harassment is a really big f**king problem in this country," says Carusone...

So is unfiltered profanity (yours) mental insufficiency (yours) and lying a deceit (yours), Carusone. Unfiltered profanity usually indicates intellectual weakness, coming from people who cannot express themselves because they are intellectually and morally bankrupt. You are a case in point.

[Snickering Hound]

I thought O'Reilly had more in common with the fall of Arthur Godfrey myself.

[KarlInOhio]

Also the biggest cost in the Rush Limbaugh show is Rush himself, so if he is willing g to take less in advertising revenue he can survive. I did notice the “quwlity” of the advertisers went down. There were fewer big name companies and more low end spots like Dinovite.

[Nifster]

That and the sons are sick of BOR

[ArcadeQuarters]

5 is too general. Never apologize unless you are actually wrong. An apology is an admission of guilt. It won’t end a controversy but instead would be like confessing to a crime you didn’t commit. That’s not easily reversed.

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[TBP]

advertisers didn't flee, they were chased away by the same organized effort as was used against Glenn Beck once upon a time, and Rush Limbaugh in 2012.

Bingo!

[TBP]

I don’t know whether O’Reilly did what was alleged or didn’t. But we now live in a society where mere allegations suffice to ruin a person’s career, and that should disturb us all.

[Rockitz]

It’s because Bill is a bloviating pinhead.