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February 2024
- Feb 6, 2024 The Future of Section 10(b) Claims Premised on Violations of Item 303 Looks Uncertain
- Feb 6, 2024 Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Claims Against Nikola Corporation
- Feb 6, 2024 Artificial Intelligence in Public Stock Trading
- Feb 6, 2024 Pomerantz Resolves Opt-Out Actions with Teva Pharmaceuticals
- December 2023
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October 2023
- Oct 30, 2023 Goldman Sachs Cert Redux
- Oct 30, 2023 Pomerantz Defeats Motion to Dismiss in In re Bed Bath and Beyond Sec. Litig.
- Oct 30, 2023 Emoji and the Law
- Oct 30, 2023 Priorities for CEOs and Directors Implementing AI
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August 2023
- Aug 16, 2023 Pomerantz to Host First European Corporate Governance Roundtable with Sir Tony Blair
- Aug 16, 2023 Pomerantz Prevails Against Motion to Dismiss Its SPAC Litigation
- Aug 16, 2023 The Questionable Use of Free Speech Defenses in Securities Litigation
- Aug 16, 2023 Navigating Section 220 Demand for Corporate Books and Records
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June 2023
- Jun 26, 2023 Slack Ruling
- Jun 26, 2023 The SEC’s Proposed Rules: Protecting Investors in Cryptocurrencies
- Jun 26, 2023 Empowered Investors, Enhanced Accountability
- Jun 26, 2023 Pomerantz Achieves $74 Million Settlement for Arconic Investors
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April 2023
- Apr 13, 2023 Another Wynn Win
- Apr 13, 2023 Pomerantz Wins Ninth Circuit Reversal of Forescout Dismissal
- Apr 13, 2023 The Sacrosanct Right to Vote
- Apr 13, 2023 The Slippery Status of NFTs
- Apr 13, 2023 Corporate Governance Roundtable
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February 2023
- Feb 22, 2023 Delaware Finds That Officers Have Oversight Duties
- Feb 22, 2023 Caremark Revisited
- Feb 22, 2023 Pomerantz Expands Securities Litigation Practice Group
- Feb 22, 2023 Corporate Governance Roundtable
- Feb 22, 2023 Q&A: Omar Jafri
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December 2022
- Dec 6, 2022 Scheme Liability: Talk is Cheap
- Dec 6, 2022 The Valuation Treadmill
- Dec 6, 2022 Pomerantz Vindicates Defrauded DouYu Investors
- Dec 6, 2022 Q&A: Chiao Chen
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October 2022
- Oct 6, 2022 Pomerantz Opens London Office
- Oct 6, 2022 The Inconvenient Case of Forum Non Conveniens
- Oct 6, 2022 Pomerantz LLP Achieves Significant Victory for Damaged Deutsche Bank AG Investors
- Oct 6, 2022 SEC Proposes Amendment to Rule Governing Shareholder Proposals
- Oct 6, 2022 Q&A: Dr. Daniel Summerfield
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August 2022
- Aug 23, 2022 California’s Statutory Efforts to Achieve Board Diversity
- Aug 23, 2022 Delaware to Expand Liability Protections to Senior Officers
- Aug 23, 2022 Pomerantz Achieves $20 Million Settlement Over Allegedly Bad iPhone Update
- Aug 23, 2022 Pomerantz's 2022 Corporate Governance Roundtable
- Aug 23, 2022 Q&A: Tamar A. Weinrib
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June 2022
- Jun 27, 2022 Pomerantz Secures Major Victory for Investors in Case Against Deutsche Bank
- Jun 27, 2022 Pomerantz Achieves Victory for Defrauded Chicago Bridge & Iron Investors
- Jun 27, 2022 A Case for Statistical Evidence in Insider Trading Claims
- Jun 27, 2022 COVID-19 and the Litigation Pandemic
- Jun 27, 2022 The Fourth Circuit Raises the Bar for Plaintiffs Pleading Scienter
- Jun 27, 2022 Q&A - Christine Simmons
- Jun 27, 2022 SPAC Attack: How Pomerantz and the SEC Are Tackling SPAC Liability
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April 2022
- Apr 5, 2022 Free Speech vs Corporate Lies: The Role of the First Amendment in Securities Fraud
- Apr 5, 2022 The Government Should Tread Carefully in Its Short Seller Investigation
- Apr 5, 2022 Proposed Expanded Scope of Insider Trading Liability
- Apr 5, 2022 Q&A - Gustavo Bruckner
- Apr 5, 2022 Pomerantz Corporate Governance Roundtable
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February 2022
- Feb 3, 2022 Pomerantz Achieves $90 Million Class Action Settlement in Altria and JUUL Litigation
- Feb 3, 2022 Pomerantz Achieves Victory for Qihoo Investors
- Feb 3, 2022 Pomerantz Secures Important Ninth Circuit Ruling in Nikola
- Feb 3, 2022 Q&A - Charlie Morris
- Feb 3, 2022 Pomerantz Achieves Corporate Governance Reform at Troubled State Street
- December 2021
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October 2021
- Oct 12, 2021 Shareholder Interests Appear to Remain Front and Center in Public Benefit Corporations
- Oct 12, 2021 SEC Resets 'Set It and Forget It' 10b5 Plans
- Oct 12, 2021 Jennifer Pafiti Honored with 2021 Women, Influence & Power in Law Award
- Oct 12, 2021 Q&A: Natalie Tuck
- Oct 12, 2021 85 Years - Clearing the Air About Discovery
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August 2021
- Aug 4, 2021 SCOTUS Decision Endorses Pomerantz Evidence Standard
- Aug 4, 2021 Plaintiff Takeaways from High Court’s Goldman Ruling
- Aug 4, 2021 Court Rebuffs Activist on Forced Arbitration Provisions
- Aug 4, 2021 Q&A: Dolgora Dorzhieva
- Aug 4, 2021 85 Years – The Case That Quashed Fee-Shifting Bylaws
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June 2021
- Jun 15, 2021 Do Those Billions of Dollars Left on the Table Belong to You?
- Jun 14, 2021 The Risks of Investing in SPACs
- Jun 13, 2021 The Value of Saber-Rattling Proposals to Break the Shield of Business Judgment
- Jun 12, 2021 Q&A: Linda Kellner
- Jun 11, 2021 85 Years — A Seismic Shift in Assessing Losses
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April 2021
- Apr 1, 2021 Pomerantz Settles Ground-Breaking BP Litigation
- Apr 1, 2021 ESG Disclosure in the Biden Era
- Apr 1, 2021 Pomerantz Submits Amicus Brief to Supreme Court
- Apr 1, 2021 Q&A: Christopher Szechenyi
- Apr 1, 2021 85 Years — A Long History of Setting Precedent
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February 2021
- Feb 17, 2021 Protecting Investors in a Globalized World
- Feb 17, 2021 The Delaware Court of Chancery Strikes Back
- Feb 17, 2021 Q&A: Louise Howard, Interviewed by Jennifer Pafiti
- Feb 17, 2021 The Short Squeeze, Stonks and Democracy
- Feb 17, 2021 85 Years — A Long Tradition of Innovation
- November 2020
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September 2020
- Sep 30, 2020 Q&A: Kolby Beckham
- Sep 30, 2020 The Supreme Court Claws Back SEC Clawback Authority
- Sep 30, 2020 Pleading Alternative Consumer Remedies in The Ninth Circuit
- Sep 30, 2020 Pomerantz Achieves $18 Million Settlement in Quorum Health Litigation
- Sep 25, 2020 A Tribute to RBG
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August 2020
- Aug 30, 2020 Stanley M. Grossman Earns Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York Law Journal
- Aug 29, 2020 Q&A with Jennifer Banner Sobers
- Aug 28, 2020 Fiduciary Responsibility During COVID-19
- Aug 19, 2020 Second Circuit Upholds Class Certification Order in Goldman Sachs
- Aug 1, 2020 Pomerantz Achieves Victory for Investors in Acadia Class Action
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May 2020
- May 30, 2020 Letter to the Editor: A Tribute to H. Adam Prussin
- May 29, 2020 Q&A with Murielle Steven Walsh
- May 27, 2020 Director Oversight: Seeking the Holy Grail
- May 25, 2020 Pomerantz Defeats Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss The Complaint Against Mylan Pharmaceuticals
- May 21, 2020 COVID Cases: Three Securities Fraud Class Action Lawsuits Born in The Wake of A Global Pandemic
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April 2020
- Apr 11, 2020 Lessons for COVID-19
- Apr 10, 2020 Challenging Foreign Companies in U.S. Courts
- Apr 9, 2020 Who's Really in Control? And Why Does It Matter?
- Apr 8, 2020 Intuit Shareholders and Directors Reject Forced Arbitration Proposal
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January 2020
- Jan 11, 2020 Delaware Rules on Books and Records
- Jan 10, 2020 “Corporate Social Responsibility” and the Institutional Investor
- Jan 9, 2020 Insider Trading: A Way Around The “Personal Benefit” Requirement?
- Jan 8, 2020 Pomerantz Scores Critical Victory for Investors in Perrigo Company plc Litigation
- Jan 1, 2020 Pomerantz Corporate Governance Roundtable
- December 2019
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October 2019
- Oct 11, 2019 The SEC’s Recent Approach To Cryptocurrency
- Oct 10, 2019 Facebook Settles With U.S. Agencies
- Oct 8, 2019 Delaware Supreme Court Grants Investor Request To Inspect Electronic Corporate Record
- Oct 1, 2019 Second Circuit Again Considers “Price Maintenance Theory” In Securities Class Actions
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August 2019
- Aug 11, 2019 Statements About [The Absence of] Gender Discrimination Can Constitute Securities Fraud
- Aug 11, 2019 Plantiffs' Attorneys and "Blow Provisions": An Uneasy Coexistence
- Aug 7, 2019 Statements About Corporate Legal and Regulatory Compliance Can Constitute Securities Fraud
- Aug 1, 2019 The Supreme Court Closes Another Door to Class Arbitration
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June 2019
- Jun 11, 2019 SEC Trims Public Company Disclosure Rules
- Jun 10, 2019 SEC Issues Expanded "Test-the-Waters" Communication Rules
- Jun 7, 2019 Can Shareholders Propose Bylaws Requiring Mandatory Arbitration of Securities Fraud Claims?
- Jun 6, 2019 Supremes: Distributing False Statement Can Be Securities Fraud
- Jun 4, 2019 Pomerantz Achieves $110 Million Class Action Settlement in Fiat Chrysler Litigation
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April 2019
- Apr 11, 2019 The Institute For Legal Reform's Latest Attack on Shareholders
- Apr 10, 2019 The Supreme Court's Unanimous Decision in Tims V. Indiana Represents A Decisive Victory for Criminal Justice Reform
- Apr 8, 2019 Section 14(a) And Inadequate Risk Disclosures
- Apr 1, 2019 Courts Tackle Merger Proxy Rules Supremes To Determine Fate of Merger Litigation
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February 2019
- Feb 11, 2019 Pomerantz Achieves Settlement with Barclays plc
- Feb 10, 2019 Delaware Chancery Court Threatens the Future of Mandatory Arbitration Provisions
- Feb 10, 2019 In the Beginning...
- Feb 7, 2019 Pomerantz: Securities Practice Group of 2018
- January 2019
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December 2018
- Dec 12, 2018 Pomerantz Hosts International Conference in New York
- Dec 10, 2018 California Champions Women for Board Seats
- Dec 9, 2018 Hare-Brained Tweet Gets Musk in Trouble
- Dec 5, 2018 Protecting Shareholder Rights: Forcing Away Forced Arbitration Clauses
- October 2018
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- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
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- April 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
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August 2017
- Aug 12, 2017 Corporate Governance & Therapeutics
- Aug 8, 2017 Supremes: The Filing Of A Class Action Does Not “Toll” The Statute Of Repose
- Aug 8, 2017 United Airlines Rewards Executives Who Bribed Public Official -- Really?
- Aug 1, 2017 Pomerantz Secures The Right Of BP Investors To Pursue “Holder Claims”
- July 2017
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June 2017
- Jun 12, 2017 Study Shows Drastically Increased Concentration Of Corporate Economic Power
- Jun 10, 2017 Other Shoes Keep Dropping At Wells Fargo -- But Is It Enough?
- Jun 5, 2017 Ninth Circuit Extends Whistleblower Protections To Employees Who Report Fraud to Management
- Jun 1, 2017 Gorsuch Appointment Takes Partisanship To A New Level
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May 2017
- May 12, 2017 The Supreme Court To Review Duty To Disclose
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April 2017
- Apr 12, 2017 Judge Rakoff Challenges The Securities Bar
- Apr 9, 2017 A Bad Choice For Auditor Reviews
- Apr 3, 2017 Class Action “Reform” In The Age Of Trump
- Apr 1, 2017 Recovery Of Reputational Damages In Securities Fraud Cases
- February 2017
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January 2017
- Jan 12, 2017 Supremes Take Up Three Big Cases
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
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August 2016
- Aug 12, 2016 Pomerantz Recognized As A Global Leader By The Legal 500
- Aug 11, 2016 Has The Curtain Finally Fallen On The Galanis Family Of Fraudsters?
- Aug 9, 2016 International Portfolio Monitoring And Its Increasing Importance To Pension Funds
- Aug 7, 2016 Why Bother To Investigate Before Bringing A Derivative Action?
- Aug 3, 2016 The Supreme Court Allows Investors To Pursue State Law Claims In State Court
- Aug 1, 2016 Court Grants Final Approval Of $45 Million Groupon Settlement
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July 2016
- Jul 31, 2016 Huge Appraisal Remedy Awarded In Dell Merger Case
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June 2016
- Jun 12, 2016 POMTalk: Defined Benefit Plans Truly Benefit Public Employees
- Jun 10, 2016 POMShorts
- Jun 8, 2016 Eighth Circuit Makes it Too Easy to Rebut Presumption of Reliance
- Jun 1, 2016 Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Our Staar Surgical Complaint
- May 2016
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April 2016
- Apr 12, 2016 Our Control Person Claims Upheld In Magnachip
- Apr 11, 2016 Loss Causation and Disclosures of Investigations
- Apr 10, 2016 Supremes: Rejected Offer Of Judgment Does Not Moot Claims Of Class Representative
- Apr 9, 2016 Executives Seeking To Avoid Securities Fraud Liability Must Plan Ahead
- Apr 6, 2016 Pomerantz Wins Class Certification In Two Major Cases: Barclays Investors Win Class Certification
- Apr 1, 2016 Pomerantz Wins Class Certification In Two Major Cases: Class Certification Granted In Our Petrobras Case
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February 2016
- Feb 12, 2016 Pomerantz News, At Home and Abroad
- Feb 11, 2016 SCOTUS Shorts
- Feb 8, 2016 Pomerantz, the oldest securities law firm in the United States, proudly celebrates its 80th birthday
- Feb 4, 2016 Auditing the Auditors
- Feb 2, 2016 Your Right to Know If Your Personal Information Has Been Hacked
- Feb 1, 2016 Court Upholds our Claims Against Lumber Liquidators
- January 2016
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December 2015
- Dec 12, 2015 Where's The Accountability?
- Dec 11, 2015 Shareholder Approval Of Merger Held To Eliminate Claims Against Conflicted Investment Bankers
- Dec 10, 2015 Petrobras Court: Opt-Outs Beware
- Dec 7, 2015 Pomerantz Beats The “Adverse Interest” Exception Again
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October 2015
- Oct 12, 2015 The Importance of Being Advanced
- Oct 10, 2015 District Court Upholds Our Claims Against Galena Biopharma
- Oct 9, 2015 Update: Another Go-Around For Loss Causation In The Ninth Circuit
- Oct 2, 2015 Leakage Theory is No Longer Just a Theory
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August 2015
- Aug 12, 2015 Ninth Circuit Refuses to Follow Second Circuit's Insider Trading Decision
- Aug 11, 2015 Are Airlines Conspiring to Keep Prices High?
- Aug 8, 2015 Our Walter Case Survives Motion To Dismiss
- Aug 6, 2015 Omnicare
- Aug 3, 2015 Petrobras: The Whole Barrel is Tainted, Not Just Four Rotten Apples
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July 2015
- Jul 10, 2015 Delaware Ban on Fee-Shifting ByLaws Signed Into Law
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June 2015
- Jun 12, 2015 Pomerantz Shatters the Glass Ceiling
- Jun 10, 2015 Subprime Redux – Will Securitized Subprime Auto Loans Cause the Next Financial Crisis?
- Jun 9, 2015 Pomerantz Takes a Bite Out of For-Profit College Scheme in Corinthian Colleges
- Jun 4, 2015 How a Landmark Securities Case Helped Certify an Antitrust Class
- Jun 2, 2015 Our Securities Fraud Case Survives Barclays’ Motion to Dismiss
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April 2015
- Apr 12, 2015 Product Hopping, Big Pharma and the High Cost of Prescription Drugs
- Apr 8, 2015 Is There Hope For Credit Rating Agencies?
- Apr 6, 2015 Pomerantz Wins Important Motion, Post-Halliburton
- Apr 4, 2015 Delaware Court Refuses to Apply Fee-Shifting Bylaw
- Apr 2, 2015 Pomerantz Appointed Lead Counsel in Historic Petrobras Securities Class Action
- February 2015
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December 2014
- Dec 12, 2014 Pom Shorts
- Dec 11, 2014 Delaware Court Cleans RBC’s Clock
- Dec 10, 2014 Investigations As Loss Causations
- Dec 4, 2014 Pomerantz Achieves Additional Victories for BP Investors
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October 2014
- Oct 12, 2014 To Salt or Not to Salt, That Is the Question
- Oct 11, 2014 Is Da Fix In?
- Oct 10, 2014 Pomerantz Defeats Motion to Dismiss in Accounting Row
- Oct 7, 2014 Fifth Circuit Revives Our Houston American Case
- Oct 3, 2014 Pomerantz Defeats Motion to Dismiss Delcath
- Oct 1, 2014 The Dust Starts to Settle After Halliburton
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August 2014
- Aug 12, 2014 Supremes to Police: Keep Your Hand off that Cell Phone
- Aug 11, 2014 Data Breach: A 21st Century Consumer Problem
- Aug 10, 2014 BNP Paribas Joins the Bank Perp Walk
- Aug 8, 2014 Lawsuits Against GM are Mounting
- Aug 2, 2014 Supremes Finally Weigh in on Crucial Securities Law Issues
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June 2014
- Jun 12, 2014 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Secure $9.3 Billion Settlement With B of A
- Jun 11, 2014 The Struggle Over the Use of Confidential Witnesses
- Jun 10, 2014 Lululemon Ordered to Produce Records of Its Stock Trading Plan
- Jun 8, 2014 Delaware Court Raises the Bar in Controlling Shareholder Transactions
- Jun 6, 2014 Court Strikes Down “Cross-Listed Shares” Theory
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April 2014
- Apr 12, 2014 Rise in “Dissenting Shareholder” Merger Conditions
- Apr 11, 2014 Appraisal is the New Black
- Apr 9, 2014 When Corporate Internal Investigations Become Part of the Problem
- Apr 8, 2014 Supreme Court Upholds Claims Arising From Stanford Ponzi Scheme
- Apr 7, 2014 Supreme Court Has a Full Plate of Securities Cases
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February 2014
- Feb 12, 2014 JPMorgan Chase Admits that it Covered Up the Madoff Ponzi Scheme
- Feb 11, 2014 "Go-Shop" Provisions – Too Little, Too Late
- Feb 10, 2014 Threat to Shareholder Protections in Transactions with Controlling Parties
- Feb 9, 2014 Supremes About to Hear Historic Challenge to Fraud on the Market Theory
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December 2013
- Dec 12, 2013 Whistleblower Program Picks Up Steam
- Dec 11, 2013 The Purple Pill and “Pay for Delay”
- Dec 9, 2013 Health Insurers’ “Recoupment” Tactic Derailed
- Dec 5, 2013 FIRREA: No, It’s Not a Disease, Unless You Are a Naughty Financial Institution
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October 2013
- Oct 12, 2013 A New Way to Curtail Class Actions?
- Oct 11, 2013 SEC Wrests Admissions in Settlement of Falcone Case
- Oct 9, 2013 Not So Fabulous After All
- Oct 7, 2013 Mergers Foreclose Derivative Litigation
- August 2013
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June 2013
- Jun 12, 2013 SEC Weighs Companies' Disclosures of Their Political Expenditures
- Jun 11, 2013 Private Equity Firms Fail to Get Antitrust Case Dismissed
- Jun 10, 2013 Doing Well While Doing Good in Delaware
- Jun 9, 2013 Court Hears Argument in BP Case
- Jun 7, 2013 Walking Dead Directors
- April 2013
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February 2013
- Feb 12, 2013 Pomerantz Reaches Major Healthcare Settlement With Aetna
- Feb 11, 2013 Government Goes After Insider Trading
- Feb 6, 2013 Companies Fight to Keep Their Political Contributions Secret
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December 2012
- Dec 12, 2012 Pomerantz Monitor
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October 2012
- Oct 12, 2012 Pomerantz Monitor
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August 2012
- Aug 12, 2012 Pomerantz Monitor
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June 2012
- Jun 12, 2012 Pomerantz Monitor
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April 2012
- Apr 12, 2012 Securities Fraud Cases Involving Foreign Companies Shift From Federal Courts
- Apr 11, 2012 "Muppet-Gate" Hits Goldman
- Apr 9, 2012 “Collective Action” Permitted in Citibank Overtime Pay Case
- Apr 1, 2012 Say on Pay is Having Its Day