Lawsuits

Also this month in our disciplinary digest, a frequent CNBC analyst is sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding investors, and a former Fidelity advisor faced charges after borrowing millions from clients.

Recruiters say firms routinely cover advisors' lost deferred compensation in offer packages. Those deals are complicating efforts by advisors who contend they're still owed backpay.

Stanley Tulin and his wife, Riki, say they were deprived of more than $19 million by a scam run by their former investment advisors. And JPMorgan, they argue in a lawsuit, could have prevented the whole thing.

The mega bank had tried to resist going before FINRA arbitrators by arguing its brokerage unit wasn't involved in an $8.4 million fraud scheme. The victim and a federal judge disagreed.

A group of former Ameriprise brokers argue they had no say in a court agreement requiring them to hand over their cell phones and other devices to a third-party forensic examiner.

The win for Morgan Stanley comes after a recent string of victories against brokers who left for rival firms. But as the outcome in the JPMorgan case shows, firms don't always prevail.

Chuck Roberts, whose recommendations of structured notes landed the St. Louis firm a nearly $133 million arbitration award, was kicked out of the industry after ceasing to cooperate with a regulatory investigation.

Morgan Stanley had gone to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to fight a lower court's finding that its deferred compensation policies fall under federal retirement law.

Many former college athletes will receive large lump sums, and current players face new NIL guidelines that come with large, officially sanctioned payments.

In separate cases, two federal judges found that neither Wells Fargo nor LPL had a fiduciary obligation to look for clients' best interests with uninvested cash held in brokerage accounts.