Thomas B. Shepherd, III, and Christopher S. Pace, both partners in the firm's Business & Commercial Transactions Practice Group in the Jackson office, co-authored an article titled "Regulation of Activist Investors in the Gaming Industry" for Casino Enterprise Management published on December 1, 2014. The article discusses the need for gaming regulators to consider the effect of establishing precedent for involvement in the internal affairs of publicly traded corporations before calling forward any shareholder group falling below the minimum threshold of ownership of 5 percent.