Alison Frankel

A long-serving Delaware Chancery Court judge just compared litigation over so-called blank-check investment vehicles to an anaconda snake that takes a year to digest its food.

The pandemic-era mania for special purpose acquisition...

I write all the time about class actions and multidistrict litigation. Class action complaints, dismissal motions, expert testimony, class certification, fee awards–they're all issues I've covered.

In a case against entertainment behemoth Live Nation , a U.S. appeals court has rejected a common corporate tactic to combat mass consumer arbitration and has cast doubt on whether companies can force consumers into consolidated arbitration protocols.

A federal judge in California has found law firm Latham & Watkins in civil contempt for “flagrant violations” of a protective order shielding discovery produced by short seller Muddy Waters in a securities class action against Banc of California.

(Reuters) - A federal judge in California has found law firm Latham & Watkins in civil contempt for "flagrant violations" of a protective order

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.