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Readers of this blog know well that the current administration has been issuing a significant number and wide variety of memos and orders, including a March 22, 2025 memo pertaining to alleged law firm misconduct and Executive Orders focused on specific law firms. The law firm memo and the Executive Orders potentially represent a significant concern for affected firms. The following guest post – written by E. Theresa Panensky, West Region Leader, Claims Advocate of the Claims & Legal Group – WTW FINEX; Scott M. Lupiani, Partner, Litigation, Pierson Ferdinand, LLP; and Larry Fine, Management Liability Coverage Leader, WTW FINEX – examines the law firm-related memorandum and orders and considers the insurance implications for affected firms. A version of this article previously was published as a WTW client alert. I would like to thank the authors for allowing me to publish their article as a guest post on this site. I welcome guest post submissions from responsible authors on topics of interest to this site’s readers. Please contact me directly if you would like to submit a guest post. Here is the authors’ article.Continue Reading Guest Post: Insurance Issues Related to Executive Orders

It is now well-recognized, as Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine has famously said, that “Everything Everywhere is securities fraud.” Just the same, it does come as a surprise sometimes to see the things that make their way into securities class action lawsuit complaints. In the latest example of this phenomenon at work, a plaintiff shareholder has filed a securities class action lawsuit against the restaurant company Chipotle Mexican Grill, as a result of a social media campaign raising questions about the chain’s meal portions. To combat the social media chatter, the company concentrated on providing generous portions, which cut into the company’s margins – and drew a securities lawsuit. A copy of the November 11, 2024, complaint in the suit can be found here.Continue Reading Social Media Squabble Over Restaurant Portions Begets Securities Suit

Our legal system is one of our society’s crowning achievements. But for all of its grandeur, our legal system is not without its flaws. Among other things, our system encourages litigiousness that all too often involves frivolous suits and lawyers’-fee driven litigation, including the recent phenomenon of multi-jurisdiction derivative litigation driven by plaintiffs’ lawyers competing…