Competition is fierce among investment firms for top producing brokers and, more importantly, their books of business. Often this competition rears its head in the form of litigation against departing brokers and the new firms that employ them.

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Contributing Authors: Kenneth A. Dekker , Paul Emerson, and Angela Yadav The future of shareholder class actions in Ontario The times are changing for shareholder class actions in Ontario. Last year, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice rendered Canada’s first-ever shareholder class action judgment arising from misrepresentations on an initial public offering (“IPO”) (Kerr v. [...]

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THE RULE When asked to speak on the impact of technological changes taking place in the retail stock market on the "Know Your Client Rule", I was somewhat at a loss in that if you had asked me several months ago what "Surfing the Net" meant I would have thought it was a surf in [...]

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