Mar 26, 2019 | Class Action
American consumers are accustomed to forking over driblets of their hard-earned cash to the banks that handle their personal accounts, from ATM fees to surcharges for writing too many checks in a given month. But one of the most burdensome fees is also one of the most...
Nov 14, 2018 | Whistleblower Cases
A few weeks ago the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it was paying substantial awards to two private individuals who had assisted the agency in a major enforcement action. One of the two received payment of $15 million; the other received $39...
Aug 31, 2018 | Data Privacy
Tales of instant wealth are hard to resist. Popular media accounts about the emerging markets for cryptocurrency are teeming with stories of overnight Bitcoin millionaires — like the 19-year-old investor featured in this CNBC report, who parlayed a $1000 gift from his...
Aug 16, 2018 | Data Privacy
These are tumultuous times out in cyberspace, from the massive data breach at Equifax last year that compromised the personal data of 148 million people to the recent revelations that private information about millions of Facebook users ended up in the hands of a...
Jun 21, 2018 | Class Action
“There is strength in numbers.” It’s impossible to know what ancient general first uttered that sentiment, but it’s as true today, in the age of digital politics and Twitter followers, as it was in the times of prehistoric warfare. And it’s the key to understand a...
