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Registered Rep. January 19, 2006 |
Is Supreme Court Leaning Towards a Decision Against Broker? The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in connection with a suit by a former Merrill Lynch broker against the nation's largest brokerage firm, and the early reaction to the hearing is that this time Goliath won. |
Registered Rep. March 3, 2006 Halah Tourylai |
Third Wirehouse Coughs Up Millions In Overtime Cases Yesterday, Morgan Stanley became the third wirehouse, after Merrill Lynch and UBS, to settle class action suits with California brokers over overtime pay in the past seven months -- the second in three weeks. |
BusinessWeek June 22, 2011 Greg Stohr |
Wal-Mart Case: Another Loss for Trial Lawyers The Supreme Court's ruling is the latest in a series of decisions that make it clear the justices aim to curb mass litigation. |
Registered Rep. February 24, 2012 Kristen French |
Due Diligence: Seven Years Later, Merrill Broker Discrimination Class Action Gets go Ahead The lawsuit will go to court in April, and then the judge will set a date for trial. |
InternetNews June 18, 2007 Roy Mark |
Court Takes IPO Underwriters Off the Antitrust Hook Wall Street investment firms that helped bankroll the high-tech IPO boom of the 1990s are immune from antitrust suits, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday. |
BusinessWeek July 9, 2007 Roben Farzad |
The Street's Next Big Scandal Are traders and hedge funds colluding to profit from privileged information? |
The Motley Fool April 21, 2004 Bill Mann |
Attack of the Killer Attorneys It's inevitable in every investor's career that he or she will hold a company that will attract class action lawsuits alleging some form of securities fraud. |
Entrepreneur August 2005 Jane Easter Bahls |
Action Sacked A new law aims to protect you from class-action suits. Under the new law, all class-action lawsuits with plaintiffs from more than one state will have to be filed in federal courts, which tend to be less sympathetic than state courts to these suits. |
Registered Rep. February 22, 2006 Halah Touryalai |
Brokers Headed for Sweep in Overtime Pay Cases? Stockbrokers have won their second big overtime pay case against Wall Street firms and this may only be the beginning of a rout that could cost brokerage houses many millions of dollars more. |
Registered Rep. May 1, 2005 Richard Roth |
The Worst is Over---Probably It's clear then that brokerage firms and retail brokers alike will be glad when the all-clear has sounded and Wall Street can stop looking over its shoulder and get back to work. |
BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Greg Stohr |
Wal-Mart vs. a Million Angry Women Wal-Mart wants the Supreme Court to block a huge gender-bias suit. |
BusinessWeek May 28, 2009 Theo Francis & Steve LeVine |
Sotomayor: On Business, A Voice of Moderation Highlights of some of the Supreme Court nominee's most important business rulings. |
Registered Rep. June 2, 2003 David A. Gaffen |
Vermont Judge Rules Against a Merrill TRO A federal judge in Vermont has ruled against Merrill Lynch's attempt to prevent two former brokers from contacting clients they held while at the firm. |
Registered Rep. April 1, 2005 John Churchill |
Merrill Takes a Late Hit on Research Scandal An NASD arbitration panel ordered Merrill Lynch to pay more than $1 million to an investor last month for hiding conflicts of interest and issuing fraudulent research. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 William Jacobson |
Feeling Their Pain Analyst fraud has made for strange bedfellows. Normally, customers and brokers have nothing in common when it comes to investment losses. When it comes to tech, however, you and your customers rode the stocks down together as your firm's analysts kept shouting, "Strong Buy." |
Registered Rep. November 29, 2006 Halah Touryalai |
Merrill Lynch to Pay National Overtime Settlement The financial firm has decided to consolidate the numerous overtime lawsuits that have been filed against the firm and settle nationally with its brokers. |
Information Today May 12, 2015 George H. Pike |
Supreme Court to Address Standing to Sue for Data Breaches and Privacy Violations The ability of individuals to seek legal recovery for data breaches or the posting of inaccurate information or to defend their privacy rights may soon be impacted by the Supreme Court of the United States. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
The Merrill Lynch Settlement: Good for Merrill, Not for Investors Many say the Merrill settlement does not resolve investors' fundamental concern: the inherent conflict produced by analysts' multiple dual role of serving investors and Merrill's investment banking business. |
Registered Rep. July 2, 2003 David A. Gaffen |
Judge Dismisses Class-Action Suits Against Merrill, Others It was a victory in court yesterday for Merrill Lynch and three other large investment banks -- Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Goldman Sach -- as judges dismissed claims in two class action suits related to the firms' tainted stock research. |
Registered Rep. June 18, 2003 David A. Gaffen |
Judge Skeptical of Investors Suing Merrill Attorneys at Merrill Lynch asked a federal judge in New York to throw out a suit representing thousands who lost money in the Internet bubble, and the firm's pleas appear to be finding a receptive ear. |
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 Kristen French |
Ready to Punch a Time Clock Merrill Lynch paid $37 million to settle claims that it owes thousands of former brokers overtime pay. Now, class-action attorneys smell blood. |
Registered Rep. November 23, 2005 Kevin Burke |
Mom-and-Daughter Team Wins $2 Million Arbitration Over Sex Discrimination Merrill Lynch got dinged -- again -- for allegedly mistreating its female reps. |
Registered Rep. October 8, 2002 Rick Weinberg |
To Improve Profitability, Merrill Curtailing Trading of OTC Issues. A Time to Buy Small-Cap Issues? "With fewer players, that means there will find more inefficiencies in that part of the market." |
Registered Rep. February 1, 2006 John Churchill |
Race Discrimination Cloud Hangs Over Good Year For Merrill Lynch and UBS, allegations of widespread racial discrimination put a damper on an otherwise stellar year for the firms. Both wirehouses were named in separate lawsuits seeking class-action status raised by black brokers who allege a pattern of discrimination at the two firms. |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2011 Jill Wechsler |
The Supremes Shape Pharma A number of important decisions from the Supreme Court will affect drug marketing, research, and regulation |
BusinessWeek August 30, 2004 Amy Borrus |
Brokers Aren't Advisers The line between brokers and advisers was clear for decades. But in 1999, the Securities & Exchange Commission blurred that line. Now, to protect investors, the SEC must redraw a clear line. |
Salon.com October 10, 2002 Damien Cave |
Wall Street's worst nightmare Does New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer really want to clean up the stock market, or just make himself look good? |
Registered Rep. September 14, 2005 Kristen French |
Overtime Pay, Chargebacks Under Fire; Morgan Stanley Latest Firm in Lawyers' Sights A $450 million class-action lawsuit filed in New York against Morgan Stanley on Friday could have major implications for brokerages' pay practices in the state. |
U.S. Banker July 2007 Karen Krebsbach |
Next for Top Court: Securities Fraud Whether banks that help public firms commit fraud are also liable soon will be a question before the Supreme Court. Its decision will affect litigants in the still-simmering Enron case. |
Chemistry World March 23, 2012 Rebecca Trager |
Court throws out patent covering drug dosing The US Supreme Court has said that medical tests that rely on correlations between drug doses and treatment cannot be patented because they are based on laws of nature. |
BusinessWeek March 24, 2011 Greg Stohr |
Wal-Mart Faces the Big Box of Bias Suits A Supreme Court review of a massive gender discrimination suit against Wal-Mart could usher in new rules regarding class actions. |
Registered Rep. January 27, 2012 Kristen French |
Due Diligence: FINRA's Merrill Fine is a Tap on the Wrist This week, FINRA fined Merrill Lynch $1 million for making it hard for former brokers of the firm to fight back in bonus disputes. |
Registered Rep. August 25, 2006 Kevin Burke |
Merrill Fighting Back Against Recent Defections The recruiting war for top brokers remains fierce. The latest evidence of the fight to win million-dollar producers involves the industry's biggest firms. |
Information Today January 2007 George H. Pike |
Legal Update: Where the Lawsuits Are Updates on lengthy search-related lawsuits involving Google and Microsoft. |
Registered Rep. September 25, 2002 Rick Weinberg |
NY Attorney General: I Could Have Nailed Merrill on More Serious Charges Eliot Spitzer said he could have pursued criminal charges against Merrill Lynch for its conflicts of interest in its research, but that he didn't want to "destroy" the firm or Wall Street. |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2007 John Churchill |
Subprime Mess: Merrill and Goldman Reportedly Under Eye of SEC The subprime debt market blowup has had very different effects on Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, but both firms could be getting a visit from the SEC to make sure everyone played by the rules. |
ifeminists June 30, 2004 Wendy McElroy |
Jackpot Justice, the Wal-Mart Case No one knows how to definitively resolve the abuses and dangers of class action suits without denying the underdog access to the courts. |
InternetNews October 4, 2005 Tim Gray |
Miers, Roberts Share Tech History The chief justice and supreme court nominee both had hands in Microsoft cases, but on different sides of the aisle. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 David A. Geracioti |
In the Crosshairs An army of lawyers are about ready to file suits on behalf of aggrieved retail investors who claim to have lost money because of the conflict-of-interest scandal. |
Salon.com May 17, 2002 Damien Cave |
Lock up the analysts and throw away the key An investor who followed expert advice lost $100,000. He wants vengeance, but history suggests he's not likely to get it... |
Registered Rep. September 8, 2006 Kevin Burke |
Male-Bashing at Mother Merrill? Merrill's sex-discrimination troubles just won't go away. But this time it isn't a woman raising a stink. Blas Catalani, a former sales manager at Merrill Lynch's San Antonio office, is suing a female ex-broker and her lawyer on grounds that the two women conspired to get him fired. |
The Motley Fool March 1, 2005 Tim Beyers |
The End of Personal Responsibility? An investor sues broker Merrill Lynch over analyst reports and wins big. Why? |
BusinessWeek April 19, 2004 Marcia Vickers |
Charles Merrill: Selling Stocks To The Masses Over the next decade after the 1929 market crash Charles E. Merrill burnished a revolutionary idea: Bring Wall Street to Main Street by democratizing the market. In 1940, he gave his vision shape by creating the brokerage firm now known as Merrill Lynch & Co. |
Registered Rep. March 4, 2009 David A. Geracioti |
The Conflicts of Interest in Not Being a Fiduciary; Hang Charlie Merrill In Effigy? At least one commentator is calling for Charlie Merrill to be hung in effigy for creating the modern-day, hard-charging, sales-oriented brokerage called Merrill Lynch. |
Registered Rep. September 1, 2005 John Churchill |
She's Baaaack Hydie Sumner, a former broker who successfully sued Merrill Lynch for sexual discrimination, has been trying for seven years to reacquire her job at the firm. Now an arbitration panel has ruled that she can return to Merrill. |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2003 Glenn S. Curtis |
War, What Is It Good For? War, or rather the prelude to war, has been, historically, bad for the stock market. One group of stocks harder hit than most during these saber-rattling times is the brokerage sector. |
Inc. August 2003 Anne Marie Borrego |
Fairer Class Action Small-business lobbies are hailing a bill that will make it harder to win a class-action lawsuit. |
Registered Rep. July 1, 2004 Will Leitch |
The End of the World as We Know It? Is the traditional model for securities houses --- investment banking, research, asset management, retail brokerage all coexisting under one roof --- more trouble than it's worth? |
Registered Rep. September 8, 2006 Halah Touryalai |
Merrill Discrimination Suit Moves Forward After Failed Settlement Talks The racial-discrimination suit against Merrill Lynch is under way again after settlement talks between African-American brokers and the firm came to a halt in early June. |
Registered Rep. March 15, 2006 Kevin Burke |
Merrill Fined $2.5 Million Over Lax Email Oversight The SEC slapped the nation's largest brokerage with a $2.5 million fine and a cease-and-desist order for a "systemic" mishandling of email records related to its brokerage business. |