Sentences with phrase «on fiduciary litigation»

In her securities litigation practice, Ms. McKenzie focuses on fiduciary litigation and complex securities litigation.

«You do a lot of commercial cases like contract disputes, as well as class actions, but you can also branch out into white collar work and collaborate with our private client group on fiduciary litigation.»

We have published various articles on fiduciary litigation.

Not exact matches

The mega-settlements Schlichter has won, along with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that put plan fiduciaries on high (er) alert about the need to continuously monitor plan investments, has encouraged more law firms to develop and expand their fiduciary litigation practices.

«Every rule we take, people threaten us with litigation,» Perez told reporters on the sidelines of the April 6 event to announce release of the final fiduciary rule at the Center for American Progress in Washington.

The research showed that «plan sponsors and recordkeepers might not be on the same page in thinking about topics related to improving the quality of the investment lineup, minimizing fiduciary risk / avoiding litigation and reducing plan administration costs,» Jessica Sclafani, retirement director at Cerulli, said in a statement.

Another big gap between plan sponsors and recordkeepers emerged on the issue of «minimizing fiduciary risk / avoiding litigation.»

It is obviously too soon to predict the future of the potential class action litigation, but similar cases have turned on the ease or difficulty of proving there was another course of action a prudent and knowledgeable fiduciary would have taken to get rid of the stock as an investment option without running afoul of insider trading restrictions on public stock.

Ms. Pooler's practice focuses on shareholder fiduciary duty and securities litigation in courts throughout the country, as well as counseling public company boards, board committees, and senior management with respect to a broad range of corporate governance and business matters.

After five years of litigation and a nearly two - week trial, the team received a defense verdict on a hard fought class action case for breach of fiduciary duty against Mr. Hughes.

Our extensive estate litigation experience is detailed on our Estate, Trust and Fiduciary Litigalitigation experience is detailed on our Estate, Trust and Fiduciary LitigationLitigation page.

We focus on the full spectrum of the practice, including estate planning, fiduciary litigation, estate administration, and more.

Her estate litigation practice now boasts seven lawyers and eight litigation support clerks and focuses on dispute resolution in the areas of estate, trust, capacity, powers of attorney, guardianship, elder law, fiduciary advice, and opinion work.

Our expertise includes advising officers, boards of directors, shareholders, and special litigation committees on a wide range of business disputes, including fiduciary duties, employment issues with minority and majority shareholders, executive compensation, corporate freeze - outs, direct and derivative claims by shareholders, internal investigations and other aspects of corporate governance.

Brandon's experience also includes general commercial litigation, including both plaintiff and defense matters based on contract, professional liability, breach of fiduciary duty and fraud.

Erin Maddocks — Litigation Practice Group, West Palm Beach Erin Maddocks focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, fiduciary dispute resolution and contested wills, trusts and estateLitigation Practice Group, West Palm Beach Erin Maddocks focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, fiduciary dispute resolution and contested wills, trusts and estatelitigation, fiduciary dispute resolution and contested wills, trusts and estates matters.

The annual Haynes and Boone Securities Litigation Year in Review comments on significant securities - related decisions by the Supreme Court, federal appellate courts and district courts, notes key developments in SEC enforcement, and summarizes significant rulings in state law fiduciary litigation against directors and officers of public Litigation Year in Review comments on significant securities - related decisions by the Supreme Court, federal appellate courts and district courts, notes key developments in SEC enforcement, and summarizes significant rulings in state law fiduciary litigation against directors and officers of public litigation against directors and officers of public companies.

The 13 attorneys who joined Waller are: Eric J. Taube — focuses on complex commercial and business litigation; bankruptcy restructuring and litigation; securities litigation; real estate litigation; employment law; and fiduciary litigation.

This blawg focuses on elder law, long - term care, end - of - life and health care surrogate decision - making, estate and personal planning, fiduciary administrations (by agents under powers of attorney, custodians, guardians, executors / administrators and trustees), elders» dispute resolution, and Orphans» Court litigation in Pennsylvania, with reference to trends nationally.

Private client lawyers advise wealthy families, individuals, trustees and fiduciaries on all aspects of estate planning, including asset management, tax planning, wills and trusts, charitable contributions and various types of estate litigation.

«Drawing on our experience in fiduciary and securities litigation, class action litigation, bankruptcy, and tax, we are ready to meet the needs of our clients with respect to this ever developing story.»

She also draws on her background in commercial litigation to represent employers in cases that involve employee theft of trade secrets, non-compete agreements, defamation, fraud, business interference and violations of the fiduciary duties owed by an employee to his / her employer.

Bill focuses his practice on financial services disputes, real estate and land use litigation, business contract, business tort, fiduciary duty, trade secret, intellectual property, eminent domain, white collar crime, and antitrust investigations.

Representing PepsiCo, Inc. and Bottling Group, LLC in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, in litigation alleging claims under the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Robinson Patman Act, the Lanham Act and Iowa competition law, and for tortious interference, breach of fiduciary duty, business defamation and, on behalf of a putative class, breach of contract.

With our focused and extensive experience on the issues surrounding trust and estate planning and administration, elder law, fiduciary litigation (trust and estate disputes) and related areas, the attorneys at Hill & Watchko, LLC can help you plan and address these challenges.

Richard also often appears on behalf of directors and officers in derivative suits alleging breaches of fiduciary duty and as counsel for Special Litigation Committees.

He focuses on complex commercial litigation, particularly contract actions, fraud, breach of fiduciary duties and other business torts, intra-company disputes and business divorce claims involving partnerships and LLCs, employment claims, and derivative and class action claims.

In addition, Travis represents plaintiffs and defendants in complex business matters with a particular emphasis on technology, marketing and media disputes, copyrights and trademarks, along with fiduciary litigation, partnership and shareholder disputes and other «business divorce» cases.

He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of cases in federal and state courts throughout the country, with an emphasis on complex commercial disputes, contract and business tort litigation, class actions, insurance litigation, fiduciary litigation, real - estate litigation, and construction litigation.

Jennifer Odom is a civil litigation attorney with a focus on business disputes, complex financial, commercial, and corporate litigation, fiduciary litigation, trust and estate litigation.

• Delivered litigation - related training to BMO's lines of business and corporate support areas on fiduciary risk, privilege protection, and legal risk management in reporting.

(1) extending negligent misrepresentation beyond «business transactions» to product liability, unprecedented in Texas; (2) ignoring multiple US Supreme Court decisions that express and implied preemption operate independently (as discussed here) to dismiss implied preemption with nothing more than a cite to the Medtronic v. Lohr express preemption decision; (3) inventing some sort of state - law tort to second - guess the defendant following one FDA marketing approach (§ 510k clearance) over another (pre-market approval), unprecedented anywhere; (4) holding that the learned intermediary rule does not apply whenever a defendant «compensates» or «incentivizes» physicians to use its products, absent any Texas state or appellate authority; (5) imposing strict liability on an entity not in the product's chain of sale, contrary to Texas statute (§ 82.001 (2)-RRB-; (6) creating a claim for «tortious interference» with the physician - patient relationship, again utterly unprecedented; (7) creating «vicarious» breach of fiduciary duty for engaging doctors to serve as expert witnesses in mass tort litigation also involving their patients, ditto; and (8) construing a consulting agreement with a physician as «commercial bribery» to avoid the Texas cap on punitive damages, jaw - droppingly unprecedented.

Steve Dupré has a broad commercial litigation, trial and appellate practice with recent emphasis on complex commercial disputes, class action defense, business torts, fraud, fiduciary duty, business governance, contract and partnership disputes.

In a session Friday at the REALTORS ® Conference & Expo on fiduciary duty and avoiding lawsuits, Fein offered a few tips that will help shield brokers and agents from litigation.