Lisa L. Casey

Associate Professor of Law

Office Number: 2144 Eck Hall of Law
Telephone: 574.631.5549
Fax: 574.631.4197
Email: lcasey@nd.edu
Staff Assistant: Gloria Krull

Lisa L. Casey, an associate professor of law, returned to the NDLS faculty full-time this academic year following her leave of absence in 2004-06. Professor Casey teaches and researches in the areas of corporate and securities law, and she teaches commercial law as well.

Before joining the faculty, Professor Casey taught as a visitor at the University of Denver College of Law (1999-2001), where she also taught corporate, securities, and commercial law courses.

Professor Casey graduated with distinction from Stanford University, where she received her A.B. in economics and communication and was elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa and Cap & Gown honor societies. She then earned her J.D. from Stanford Law School, again graduating with distinction and serving as managing editor of the Stanford Journal of International Law.

After graduation from law school, Professor Casey clerked for the Honorable Sherman G. Finesilver, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. She practiced law for more than a decade, first as an associate and partner in the Denver law firm of Davis, Graham & Stubbs, then as a partner in the Denver law firm of Holme Roberts & Owen. She chaired the Securities Law Section of the Colorado Bar Association and served as co-editor of the Securities News, a quarterly publication of the ABA’s Securities Litigation Committee. She also taught trial advocacy as a member of the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. She is admitted to practice in Colorado and a number of federal courts.

Professor Casey researches in the areas of securities litigation and enforcement, corporate governance, and class action litigation and reform.

In the News

• Experts: Goldman Sachs Should Settle SEC Suit Now, Money News, April 26, 2010, (Quotes: Lisa Casey)

LAW70101, Business Associations

LAW73141, Securities Litigation and Enforcement Seminar

LAW70105, Commercial Law-Sales

LAW73141, Securities Regulation

Faculty Expertise Areas

• Business and corporate law
• Corporate governance
• Securities regulation
• Tort reform

Articles:

Reforming the Federal Securities Police (work in process).

Blaming the SEC (work in progress).

Twenty-Eight Words: Enforcing Corporate Fiduciary Duties Through Criminal Prosecution of Honest Services Fraud, 35 Del. J. Corp. L. 1 (2010)

Class Action Criminality, 34 J. CORP. L. 153 (2008).

Reforming Securities Class Actions from the Bench, 2003 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 1239.

Shutting the Doors to State Court: The Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998, 27 Sec. Reg. L.J. 141 (Summer 1999).

Other Articles:

Colorado Law Preempted, The Colorado Lawyer (February 1999).

Recent Securities Law Developments in the Tenth Circuit, The Colorado Lawyer (February 1998).

Navigating Safe Harbors of Corporate Disclosures, with Sara A. Moon, Colorado Journal (February 1997).

The Broker-Dealer As Fiduciary Under ERISA: Defending Claims by ERISA Plans For Recovery of Their Trading Losses, with Laura M. Metcalfe, Investment Lawyer (September 1996), and Insights (November 1996).

After Federal Securities Reform: Blue Sky Ahead for Colorado Class Actions-Part II, with Laura M. Metcalfe, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 25, No. 8 (August 1996).

After Federal Securities Reform: Blue Sky Ahead for Colorado Class Actions-Part I, with Laura M. Metcalfe, The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 25, No. 7 (July 1996).

After Central Bank, Accountants Still Face Exposure For Their Clients’ Securities Fraud, with Laura M. Metcalfe, The National Law Journal (May 20, 1996).

The Supreme Court Has Reaffirmed the Presumption that Courts Should Resolve Issues of Arbitrability, But Offers Little Guidance on Other Arbitration Disputes, with Meredith A. Munro, The National Law Journal (August 7, 1995).

Mergers and Acquisitions: Recent Developments and the Business Judgment Rule, with Ralph C. Ferrara and Richard A. Westfall, The Colorado Lawyer (March 1995).

Taking Stock of Recent Case Law: Securities Litigation Developments, with Richard A. Westfall, Practicing Law Institute 26th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation (November 1994).