Over the last couple of years, defense oriented commentators have used the meme “event driven securities litigation” as part of complaining about the increasing volume of class action litigation. From
A detailed data driven study of securities lawsuits before and after Morrison is the subject of a new paper by Professor Davidoff Solomon and colleagues. A summary is online in a November 21, 2018 art
Various pundits are saying 2019 will include a surge in litigation. In that vein, it will be interesting to see if adverse financial outcomes for M&A deals and IPOs result in state court class actio