Commercial Litigation

What would it take to win an antitrust lawsuit against the world's largest search engine? A highly successful prosecutor is a good first step for the Federal Trade Commission, which has launched an investigation into Google's business practices. The agency has hired...

The CEO of a now-collapsed brokerage firm could face criminal charges as well as civil commercial litigation if investigators prove he knew customer funds might be included in a $200 million transfer of funds to an account in the U.K.MF Global Holding Ltd. CEO John...

As Facebook prepares its initial public offering in the stock market later this spring, it's facing a steady stream of lawsuits from old friends, collaborators and others claiming to have an interest in the social networking site. This type of commercial litigation is...

A consumer coalition dedicated to health care reform has filed lawsuits against eight major pharmaceutical companies, claiming their popular coupon programs for brand-name prescription drugs are illegal. The coalition is seeking class-action status in its commercial...

People who invest in their company's 401(k) or stock option plans are not usually armchair stockbrokers. Most employees think more about the percentage of their salary they're contributing rather than the stocks in which they're investing. A publicly held company may...

With such intense competition for programmers and other highly skilled tech talent in Silicon Valley, many workers have become accustomed to frequent calls from competing tech companies trying to lure them away with bigger salaries. But recently the phones have...

After Gov. Jon Corzine signed the Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act in 2010, six dispensaries were approved to open in the state, a promising start for medical marijuana advocates and potential patients in New Jersey. But two years later, not one of those...

Companies and individuals will no longer be able to say they "neither admit nor deny" wrongdoing in a civil case if they've admitted to related criminal charges following a policy change by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The change, which is already in...

His can-do spirit inspired a legion of Notre Dame fans and a Hollywood movie, but Daniel Ruettiger, also known as "Rudy," has since disappointed stockholders and inspired the Securities and Exchange Commission to file a federal lawsuit against him for a "pump and...

In the event that you ran into legal trouble related to your job, you might expect that your company would rush to your defense. But as some high-level brokerage industry executives have demonstrated recently with their own commercial litigation, that's not a safe...