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  • Securities, Brown Rudnick, Blank Rome: Business of Law

    Federal securities class-action filings decreased by about 10 percent last year from 2011, PricewaterhouseCoopers found in its 17th annual Securities Litigation Study published yesterday. There were 172 cases in 2012, compared with 191 cases in 2011, with a significant drop in the fourth quarter of 2012.

  • Securities Filings, Brown Rudnick, Blank Rome: Business of Law

    Federal securities class action filings decreased by about 10 percent last year from 2011, PricewaterhouseCoopers found in its 17th annual Securities Litigation Study published yesterday. There were 172 cases in 2012, compared to 191 cases in 2011, with a significant drop in the fourth quarter of 2012.

  • Obama’s NLRB Nominees Include Critic of Boeing Case

    President Barack Obama picked a Democrat and two Republicans to the U.S. labor board, including a lawyer who in 2011 faulted the agency’s prosecution of Boeing Co. for opening an airplane factory in South Carolina.

  • Obama Chooses Perez as Labor Secretary to Replace Solis

    President Barack Obama named Thomas Perez, an assistant U.S. attorney general, as his choice for labor secretary in his second term.

  • Wal-Mart’s Union Complaint Shelved by U.S. Labor Board

    Wal-Mart Stores Inc. won a 60-day hiatus from picketing at its U.S. stores in a settlement between a labor union and the world’s largest retailer arranged through the National Labor Relations Board.

  • Port Shutdown Averted as Dockworkers Reach Tentative Deal

    Dockworkers and their employers reached a tentative agreement on royalty payments, averting a strike that would have shut down U.S. ports from Maine to Texas for the first time in 35 years.

  • Dock Workers Agree to New Contract Eliminating Strike Concerns

    The International Longshoremen’s Association agreed to a new labor contract, ending 11 months of negotiations and eliminating the risk of the first Eastern port shutdown since 1977.

  • Postal Union Millions to Democrats Roils Saturday Cuts

    All but five of Congress’s 255 Democrats and independents received campaign donations from postal worker union groups in the past six years, raising the political risk of Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe’s move to end Saturday mail delivery.

  • Dream Insider Informant Led FBI From Galleon to SAC

    David Slaine had a secret for the FBI that summer day, one of scores he would eventually reveal in his role as a dream informant. The subject was Teterboro Airport. Slaine claimed a money manager he knew was using it to profit quietly on trades of health-care stocks.

  • Government Workers Lead Drop in U.S. Union Rate

    Labor unions lost ground among government workers in 2012 as Republican-led efforts curtailed collective bargaining rights in several U.S. cities and states, and total union membership fell to a record low.

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