Alison Frankel

Audit firm BDO must face a securities fraud claim by a class of AmTrust Financial shareholders after a federal appeals court took the rare step last week of revisiting a decision that let BDO off the hook.

As speculation continues to simmer about whether U.S. President-elect Donald Trump might try to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Powell has insisted that U.S. law shields him and other Federal Reserve governors from being removed from office before their terms are up.

(Reuters) - As corporate defendants continue to test the limits of their power to force plaintiffs into arbitration, a California federal judge has

Whether a company's shareholders sue on the company’s behalf to recoup short-swing profits from an investor with a 10% stake in the company’s stock is a fairly niche question.

The 2024 U.S. election proved that regulatory fears of trading-related election manipulation are overblown, a lawyer for derivatives trading platform Kalshi told me in an interview on Monday.

(Reuters) - For the last decade, Chicago federal court has been the hub of a peculiar brand of intellectual property litigation that one prominent

The stakes, in some ways, were low in a dispute at the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals over how quickly...

(Reuters) - America suddenly discovered the phrase Chevron deference when the U.S. Supreme Court decided last June to overturn longstanding precedent

New York’s highest state court on Monday joined the nationwide consensus in state and federal courts that consumers can be compelled to arbitrate claims if they have been offered a real opportunity to review online contract terms and have clicked their assent.

(Reuters) - New York's highest state court on Monday joined the nationwide consensus in state and federal courts that consumers can be compelled to