Litigation

Civil Justice

Hon. Timothy S. Driscoll | State of New York

In 1995, under the leadership of then-Chief Judge Judith Kaye, New York State established the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court. Upon its creation, the Commercial Division was one of the first state court trial divisions devoted entirely to business cases. Fast forward almost 20 years...

Healthcare | Technology

Angelo Spinola | Littler Mendelson P.C.

Editor: Why are wage and hour class actions so prevalent? Spinola: The FLSA was enacted in 1938, but there wasn’t much litigation until about 15 years ago, after which the number of class action cases just exploded. In fact, 91 percent of today’s labor and employment class action...

Finance

John C. Coffee, Jr. | Columbia University School of Law

John C. Coffee, Jr. is the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia University and Director of its Center on Corporate Governance. This opinion piece is an elaboration on, and extension of, testimony that Professor Coffee gave on October 9, 2014, before the SEC's Investor Advisory...