Emerging investment advisory and wealth management firms often find themselves in a challenging position — on their “compliance heels” — when they begin operations or first become registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Below, Eugenie Warner discusses the obstacles facing these start-ups and offers three tips to help them add value for clients while meeting ever-greater regulatory demands.
Marie Napoli is an experienced litigator in cases of defective health and hygiene products that have been targeted at women. Below, she explores some of the most high-profile cases of defective products harming women in the USA and the legal action that resulted, while also examining the regulations that allowed these products to be sold on store shelves.
Speaking with established trial attorney James Urbanic, we explore the statutes that protect whistleblowers in California and the wider United States. He shares his experience in protecting employees from retaliation for complaining of harassment or discrimination in the workplace and offers his insight on how jurors’ attitudes towards whistleblowing have shifted.
The German car manufacturer previously asked the US Supreme Court to review an appeals court ruling that permitted two counties to seek diesel-related financial penalties that could end up costing the company billions of dollars. However, this request is still pending. Back in June of this year, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled 6-1 that the […]
Theranos, founded by Holmes in 2003, claimed it would revolutionise the medical testing space with the introduction of a new blood diagnostic technology that was capable of performing several tests on a small dose of blood. The medical start-up had reached a valuation of $10 billion. However, it was later found that the company’s claims […]
In a court filing on August 26, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, an interim lead class counsel for the software developers who are the plaintiffs, announced that a $30 million fee award squared with the attorney compensation in similar class action settlements. Freed Kanner London & Millen, Saveri & Saveri, and Sperling & Slater are the […]
Texas-based Data Engine Technologies LLC, a subsidiary of Acacia Research, first sued Mountain View California-based Google in 2014, claiming that its Google Sheets spreadsheet programme infringed patents related to using notebook-style tabs to arrange and display information in three-dimensional electronic spreadsheets. However, under the patents’ definition, Google Sheet does not count as a “three-dimensional spreadsheet”, […]
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On Friday, US District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr certified a class of investors who purchased shares in Lyft’s IPO. The judge rejected the company’s argument that individual inquiries were required to demonstrate whether investors were aware of the issues before buying in. Investor Rick Keiner’s lawsuit criticises Lyft, its officers, and directors for failing to […]
The 2021 scorecard report from Law Students for Climate Accountability gave out more failing grades to Vault Law 100 firms than it did in 2020. The group condemned 36 top law firms based on the litigation, transactions, and lobbying they handled for fossil fuel companies from 2016 and 2020. In their last report, the student […]
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