Law and legal issues

The discrimination case revolves around allegations of disparate treatment in the firm’s agency distribution channels.

The firm’s talent-analytics associate director had claimed the company hired fewer women than men and that she was paid less than her male counterparts.

The bank was seeking to overturn some $400,000 in attorney fees awarded to four advisors as part of a $2 million case.

To protect client nest eggs, advisors must know which savings vehicles are protected — and they’re not all created equal.

After an SEC lawsuit, Dan Kamensky now faces criminal charges including securities fraud, extortion and obstruction of justice.

The advisor sold securities out of one account to buy a Camaro ZL1 — then resold the car to the same victim, the regulator alleges.

Pressing the bank for examples of non-solicitation violations, the judge cut off JPMorgan’s attorney: “you are dancing all around my question.”

The saga lays bare the rough-and-tumble ways of distressed investing, where investors look to pull every lever in their favor.

It’s the latest dramatic twist in the story of USO, which was at the center of the storm as crude prices plunged earlier this year.

Mary Mack is expected to say that other employees were scared of Carrie Tolstedt, according to the bank’s regulators. Tolstedt, one of five former Wells executives facing civil charges in connection with the bank’s phony-accounts scandal, could be fined as much as $25 million.

Yes, they’ll be going up in September — but not as much as you may have heard.

The advisor is asking a judge to reconsider the order, saying he wasn’t given a chance to defend himself against accusations of violating a non-solicitation agreement.

The firm will also pay a penalty and offer to buy back variable annuities the former broker sold to 21 other investors.

During rapid growth, the firm allegedly failed to detect a cascade of red flags.

The St. Louis-based firm claims its rival “instructs incoming recruits to compile client information from their former firm” as a matter of course.

Current and former clients claim personal information, including Social Security and passport numbers, have been exposed due to negligence.

Democrats Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Brian Schatz of Hawaii have sent a letter to CEO Charlie Scharf demanding a response to news reports that the bank has been placing borrowers into forbearance plans without their consent.

The asset manager’s culture is allegedly one in which women's careers are destined to stall and portfolio-manager ranks are reserved for white men, the lawsuit claims.

This is the latest case to involve improperly allocating bonds meant for retail customers and instead selling them to other market participants.

A court ruling may also potentially help dozens of other advisors in their efforts to claim what they say is millions in deferred compensation they are due.