Securities Law
- SEC accuses Pennsylvania capital of securities fraud; ex-mayor’s positive statements targeted
May 7, 2013, 09:33 am CDT
- SEC reportedly subpoenas information from Greenberg Traurig and a lobbyist
May 2, 2013, 07:50 am CDT
- Law firm’s latest bill for Madoff liquidation is $50M, bringing total since his 2008 arrest to $440M
Apr 30, 2013, 10:47 am CDT
- Credit-ratings firm seeks dismissal of US suit, says its statements about independence were puffery
Apr 23, 2013, 07:18 am CDT
- If worker social media accounts are private, how can financial firms check for trading issues?
Apr 22, 2013, 04:55 pm CDT
- Company sues former law firm, says failure to detect issues before IPO cost millions
Apr 16, 2013, 12:35 pm CDT
- 2nd Circuit blasts SEC for ‘regrettable inaction’ in massive Madoff fraud, but nixes victim suit
Apr 10, 2013, 02:26 pm CDT
- SEC greenlights social media sites for company news, won’t pursue Netflix chief over Facebook post
Apr 2, 2013, 05:23 pm CDT
- Eleven Bingham partners jump to Sidley, including former FINRA enforcement chief
Apr 2, 2013, 06:51 am CDT
- Law firms offer cybersecurity advice and attorney-client privilege to hacked companies
Apr 2, 2013, 06:00 am CDT
- Expert in legal-fee fight blasts ‘make believe’ game over cost of contract lawyers to do doc review
Apr 1, 2013, 12:38 pm CDT
- Server location key to jurisdiction in international cases, US Attorney asserts
Mar 26, 2013, 06:00 am CDT
- Prominent law grad and general counsel face SEC case in claimed $13.2M social media stock fraud
Mar 19, 2013, 04:50 pm CDT
- Former general counsel will pay $850K to settle SEC civil backdating case
Mar 18, 2013, 07:44 am CDT
- Illinois is now the second state to face SEC accusations of securities fraud
Mar 12, 2013, 09:04 am CDT
- Cozen global securities chief leaps to Schiff in 3-lawyer group
Mar 11, 2013, 11:50 am CDT
- Law firm billing contract lawyers at $1K hourly must reveal what they were paid, federal judge says
Mar 1, 2013, 02:05 pm CDT
- SEC can’t delay suit for late-discovered fraud; clock ticks when fraud is complete, SCOTUS says
Feb 27, 2013, 12:10 pm CDT
- Supreme Court sides with securities fraud plaintiffs, lowers class action hurdle
Feb 27, 2013, 10:58 am CDT
- Cravath may soon have its first non-equity partner, if Mary Jo White is confirmed as SEC chair
Feb 12, 2013, 07:54 am CDT
- K&L Gates launches Houston office with Fulbright securities practice chief
Feb 11, 2013, 10:00 am CDT
- Law firm ‘wine and dine’ event with client led to insider-trading case against partner’s husband
Feb 7, 2013, 10:20 am CDT
- US sues Standard & Poor’s over its ratings of bundled mortgages
Feb 5, 2013, 08:27 am CDT
- Best friend’s Ponzi scheme puts Shook Hardy lawyer—and his firm—under fire in trustee suit
Feb 1, 2013, 12:20 pm CDT
- Two BigLaw firms face $1.8B suit by receiver who alleges they aided Ponzi schemer
Feb 1, 2013, 08:17 am CDT
- For the first time, a former prosecutor is tapped to lead the SEC
Jan 25, 2013, 08:43 am CDT
- Morgan Stanley lawyer had joke names for toxic assets sold overseas, including ‘subprime meltdown’
Jan 24, 2013, 08:35 am CDT
- Can BigLaw firms be sued by investors for advising Ponzi schemer Stanford? SCOTUS to decide
Jan 22, 2013, 09:09 am CDT
- Once-defiant research firm chief who nixed FBI wire gets 4 years in insider trading case
Jan 15, 2013, 01:09 pm CDT
- AIG Won’t Join Suit Claiming Its Government Bailout Harmed Shareholders
Jan 10, 2013, 08:19 am CDT
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