This week, my company published two separate studies examining shareholder responses to the subprime credit crisis.

The first report, Credit Crisis and Corporate Governance Implications, identifies the corporate governance factors involved in the credit crisis, how stronger provisions might have mitigated investor risk, and the ways investors are evaluating boards’ risk management and disclosure practices.

The second report, The Subprime Meltdown Heads to Court, follows the consequences of weak risk oversight, providing an overview of the wave of securities litigation and regulatory enforcement actions beginning to swell.

A major finding from both reports is that shareholder activism and litigation has increased as a result of the credit crisis.

Both reports are available in our educational resource center, here.

We will also share the findings from both reports in a special forum, Subprime Litigation and Liability, on April 11, 2008 at 11 a.m. EDT.

Joining me on the webcast will be:

• Darryl P. Rains, a partner with Morrison & Foerster and co-chair of the firm's Securities Litigation Group. Mr. Rains has represented hundreds of companies, officers, directors and other institutions in class actions, derivative actions and enforcement proceedings.

• Kevin LaCroix, a Director at OakBridge Insurance Services and author of The D&O Diary.

• Mark Lebovitch, a partner with Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann, and a member of the firm's subprime litigation team, "which focuses on vindicating shareholder and consumer rights arising from the mortgage and mortgage-based security debt crisis."

You can register for the webcast, here.