Author, lawyer and 花椒直播 trustee Michael R. Young will visit the college to share experiences from his legal career in a talk titled, 鈥淲hat Were They Thinking? How Honest People Go Bad 鈥� A Little at a Time,鈥� from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Thursday, October 17, in Quigley Auditorium.
This event is hosted by the Bruce R. Thompson Center for Business & Economics in partnership with the Law & Policy Program. Lunch will be provided.
Michael R. Young
Young, who has spent 38 years as a Wall Street attorney investigating corporate wrongdoing, also will visit some economics classes while on campus. His Lunchtime Learning talk will examine how decent, honorable individuals end up breaking the law, often without realizing it.
Young, a 1978 Allegheny graduate, is a litigation partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York City where he chairs the firm鈥檚 securities litigation practice. He advises and defends boards of directors, audit committees, accounting firms, public companies, and company officers on issues of corporate governance and financial reporting. He was named by Accounting Today as one of the 鈥淭op 100 most influential people in accounting.鈥�
He has served as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board鈥檚 Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, as chair of the New York City Bar Association鈥檚 Financial Reporting Committee, and as counsel to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Center for Audit Quality.
A prolific author on the subjects of financial reporting, audit committee effectiveness and the role and responsibilities of the independent auditor, his books include 鈥淭he Financial Reporting Handbook鈥� (Wolters Kluwer 2003), 鈥淎ccounting Irregularities and Financial Fraud鈥� (Harcourt 2000) and, most recently, 鈥淔inancial Fraud Prevention and Detection: Governance and Effective Practices鈥� (Wiley 2014).
Young is a speaker and commentator on financial reporting issues, and he has been regularly quoted in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, USA Today, The Washington Post and The National Law Journal. He has also appeared as an invited guest on Fox Business News, CNBC, MSNBC and CNN.
He is also a graduate of the Duke University School of Law, where he was research and managing editor of the Duke Law Journal.