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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.
September 19, 2006
John Churchill |
Merrill's O'Neal to Be Deposed for Discrimination Suit Stanley O'Neal, chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, will be deposed as part of the discovery phase in a race-discrimination suit filed by one of the firm's black brokers. |
Registered Rep.
October 30, 2008 |
Merrill's Retention Package: Just For White Guys? Stowell & Friedman, a Chicago-based law firm, files a suit against Merrill Lynch claiming African-American and female brokers at the firm have been largely excluded from its retention-bonus plan. |
InternetNews
April 21, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Less Paperwork For IBM A judge defers much of the homework she gave IBM in Linux suit against SCO. |
Registered Rep.
March 10, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Stan O'Neal Meets Black Brokers; Gets Criticized for Being Sexist While Merrill Lynch executives strive to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging systemic racism on the part of the firm, when news got around that CEO Stan O'Neal, who is black, personally attended one meeting with litigants, charges of sexism abounded. |
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.
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.
June 6, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
End of Settlement Talks Bring Students to Protest Against Merrill Lynch African-American college students protested in front of several Chicago-based Merrill Lynch offices one day after settlement talks between African-American reps who claim they were discriminated against and Merrill Lynch came to an end. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
August 8, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
A.G. Edwards' Challenge to OT Pay Fails Are registered reps hourly employees and, therefore, entitled to overtime? The overtime-pay case keeps getting stronger. A California court announced that it would not dismiss an overtime-pay case brought against A.G. Edwards. |
Registered Rep.
March 9, 2007 |
The Legal Battle that just Keeps on Going The former broker who won $2.2 million from Merrill Lynch in a discrimination lawsuit has filed suit again, this time countersuing a former sales manager at Merrill Lynch's San Antonio office. |
Registered Rep.
March 16, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
900 Down, Only a Handful to Go--Merrill Pays One More Female Broker; Separately, Thousands of Female Morgan Stanley Reps May Settle One of the last claimants from the 1997 class-action discrimination lawsuit against Merrill Lynch collected her reward late last month. Separately, Morgan Stanley has confirmed that it settled with over 3,000 claimants but would not comment further. |
InternetNews
April 7, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
Judge in 'Vista Capable' Suit Says 'Stay' Microsoft has taken a beating in the courts lately. |
InternetNews
January 20, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Judge Orders More IBM Code For SCO Both sides lose a little in a court ruling determining what code IBM should provide to SCO. |
Registered Rep.
October 2, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Merrill Appoints New Board Members The financial firm announced that it has elected two new members to it board of directors, one of whom is a British human rights activist. |
Registered Rep.
April 26, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Hydie Sumner Fired by Wachovia It's been ten years of legal wrangling with Hydie Sumner's former employer, Merrill Lynch. But today it's another firm at the center of the Sumner drama -- Wachovia Securities, which fired her yesterday. |
InternetNews
November 14, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Intel To AMD: 'Discovery Is Too Much Work' Intel says it would take its customers too much time and expense to turn over the documents AMD wants. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
March 30, 2006
Kristen French |
Gorman Unrestrained Morgan Stanley retail chief James Gorman was freed by a New York State judge of the temporary restraining order that prevented him from raiding Merrill Lynch's brokerage ranks. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
August 16, 2004
Emily Thornton |
The Brokers Strike Back Wall Street to investors: Beware of suing your brokers -- they might just sue you back. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2007 |
Broker Protocol for All? A judge's decision may make it a lot easier for brokers to leave protocol firms at a time when recruiting wars and transition packages are at their peak. |
Registered Rep.
August 24, 2006
John Churchill |
Merrill and Hydie Sumner, Still Can't Work it Out Merrill Lynch has apparently decided it's had enough of Hydie Sumner, a former broker who sued the firm successfully in 2004 for sexual discrimination. |
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. |
InternetNews
March 10, 2004
Michael Singer |
Judge: Oracle Can See Competitors' Info Oracle lawyers can view sensitive information about Peoplesoft and other vendors as they prepare for a June 7 showdown with the DoJ. |
Registered Rep.
February 7, 2006
John Churchill |
For Brokers, Leaving Just Got Easier H&R Block Financial Advisors recently lost an appeal to stop three departing brokers from soliciting or contacting their clients. For reps around the country, the ruling means that moving your book could get a lot easier. |
InternetNews
March 19, 2004
Michael Singer |
Trade Secrets Barred from Oracle's Servers A federal judge rules that only two lawyers from the software giant can view sensitive information from rival companies like Microsoft, SAP and PeopleSoft. |
Registered Rep.
September 17, 2009
John Churchill |
Judge Controls Bob McCann's Fate The former Merrill Lynch brokerage head told a Manhattan federal judge yesterday that his new employer is losing patience, and he should be relieved of a non-compete clause in his BofA contract. |
Registered Rep.
January 4, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Former Morgan Stanley Exec Sues for Age Discrimination Morgan Stanley is facing a discrimination lawsuit by a former managing director who claims he was fired because of his age. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
August 3, 2011
Kristen French |
New Merrill Overtime Lawsuit Aims to Overturn System of Compensation, Alleged Culture of Discrimination The giant Wall Street financial firms have settled numerous overtime pay and discrimination claims over the past decade and a half, but a recent suit filed in New York represents a new twist on some old themes. |
InternetNews
February 19, 2009
Stuart J. Johnston |
Judge Decertifies Class in 'Vista Capable' Suit Instead of millions of plaintiffs, Microsoft only has to fight six, but it's not out of the woods just yet. |
InternetNews
August 13, 2004
Michael Singer |
Oracle Judge Takes Hard Line on Corporate Secrets Bearing Point, Accenture, PeopleSoft and others argue for protection from publicizing private information as an after effect of Oracle's antitrust suit. |
InternetNews
November 20, 2008
Judy Mottl |
Apple, AT&T Sued Again Over iPhone 3G Issues A New York iPhone 3G user has filed a class action suit against Apple and AT&T Wireless, claiming the device does not deliver promised network capabilities and the smartphone's casing is prone to hairline cracks. |
InternetNews
October 8, 2004
Michael Singer |
Judge Denies AMD Access to Intel Documents A federal judge won't force Intel to turn over internal documents, the latest development in the legal battle. AMD requested that certain information be unsealed and handed over to the European Commission for further review. |
Information Today
January 2007
George H. Pike |
Legal Update: Where the Lawsuits Are Updates on lengthy search-related lawsuits involving Google and Microsoft. |
InternetNews
December 18, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
AMD Wins The Latest (Legal) Round Vincent Poppiti, the court appointed Special Master who is in charge of overseeing discovery in the antitrust litigation case brought by AMD versus Intel, sided with AMD and recommended Intel be compelled to produce documents containing evidence of foreign misconduct. |
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. |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
The FBI's Secret Letters To Internet Service Providers... Revealed The FBI can request users' web browsing activities and e-commerce histories without a warrant. |
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.
June 16, 2008 |
Rival Firm Settles With RIA Database RIA Database, a financial services software firm, announced today the end of a yearlong legal battle with the company's chief rival, Discovery Database. |
InternetNews
April 16, 2009
Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft Agrees to 18 More Months of Oversight In a filing with the judge presiding over its antitrust case late Thursday, Microsoft agreed with a government request to extension of federal oversight by another 18 months. |
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. |
InternetNews
July 20, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Judge Nixes AT&T, Feds on Secrecy Request A federal judge in San Francisco denied a motion by AT&T and the U.S. government to keep details of a domestic spying program secret. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Unclean Hands H&R Block Financial Advisors recently lost an appeal to stop three departing brokers from soliciting or contacting their clients. For reps around the country, the ruling means that moving your book could get a lot easier. |
InternetNews
March 14, 2008
Stuart J. Johnston |
Tit For Tat in 'Vista Capable' Suit Microsoft fights back following embarrassing disclosures, as new details emerge and plaintiffs charge even more PC buyers felt duped by the software giant. |
Registered Rep.
October 8, 2009 |
UBS Hires Bob McCann UBS has hired former Merrill Lynch executive Bob McCann to run its wealth management division in the Americas. |
CFO
March 1, 2003
Joan Urdang |
Return to Sender? Companies often fail to collect on class-action lawsuits. |
