Worldwide: Professional Negligence

Today, the Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal involving certification of securities fraud class actions.

Earlier this year, Washington state legislators unanimously passed the nation's first criminal law requiring age verification for commercial sexual services advertisements depicting minors.

To obtain class certification in an action alleging a misrepresentation in violation of Section 10(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act.

Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court has dealt a unanimous1 blow to plaintiffs’ asbestos lawyers, and potentially to plaintiffs’ lawyers in a wide range of pharmaceutical, chemical and tobacco products cases requiring scientific evidence to prove specific causation.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently issued an opinion that bolsters medical device manufacturers' arsenal of defenses in design-defect products liability actions.

In an effort to avoid the impact of the completed operations aggregate limit, policyholder counsel sometimes attempt to characterize claims as (1) rip-out exposures, or (2) as relating to "abandoned or unused materials," so as to come within a common insurance policy carve-out from the Completed Operations Hazard.

In Microsoft Corp. v. ParTec Cluster Competence Center Gmbh, IPR2025-00318, Paper 9 (P.T.A.B. June 12, 2025), the Acting Director referred the IPR to a board panel because the petitioner...

Condominium associations have long had the power to adopt reasonable rules and regulations in order to govern their unit owners in an orderly fashion.

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court held that the State of Texas and Fasken Land and Minerals Ltd., a private Texas-based company involved in oil...

On May 9, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") charged former Detroit mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick, former city treasurer Jeffrey W. Beasley, MayfieldGentry Realty Advisors, LLC ("MGRA") a registered investment adviser, and Mayfield the CEO and majority owner of MGRA, in connection with allegations that they were involved in a secret exchange of lavish gifts to peddle influence over Detroit’s public pension funds’ investment process.

A recent California federal court decision denied certification to a putative class of Facebook "cost-per-click" advertisers who allegedly were charged by Facebook for fraudulent or invalid clicks on their advertisements.

On February 16, 2012, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") proposed a new rule which defines the contours of CFPB’s authority to supervise certain debt collectors and consumer reporting agencies to ensure their compliance with federal consumer financial laws ("Proposed Rule").