Lawsuits

Republicans are considering a fix to a provision in their new tax law that they acknowledge could inadvertently penalize victims.

A divided court ruled that employers, including Ernst & Young, can force workers to use individual arbitration instead of class-action lawsuits to press legal claims.

An Ernst & Young Global Limited partner who claimed she was groped by a colleague in front of other employees at Walt Disney World Resort has reached a settlement with the company.

Organizations whose applications for tax-exempt status were delayed by the IRS could be getting $3.5 million.

An EY tax partner says she was sexually harassed by colleagues, including one who groped her in front of other employees at the Walt Disney World Resort.

The litigation reached unprecedented heights last year, although the total settlement value declined significantly, according to a new report.

The Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving a Colorado cannabis business that refused to cooperate with an Internal Revenue Service audit and turn over business records.

The wrong partner dynamics can torpedo (or at least slow down) a deal.

A lawsuit accuses PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP of illegally favoring younger job seekers

The Big Four firm agreed to resolve potential liabilities related to its work for a failed mortgage lender.

To prosecutors, Hewlett-Packard Co.’s purchase of Autonomy Corp. was akin to buying a Pinto dressed up as a Cadillac.

A training software provider has gone public with a lawsuit after a DHG employee published excerpts from some of its training materials on the firm’s website.

The four-month trial of three former Tesco Plc U.K. executives accused of fraud and false accounting over a 250 million-pound ($341 million) profit black hole at the grocer is nearly at an end.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said his administration plans to sue the federal government over the new Republican tax law, on the grounds that it’s unconstitutional because it discriminates against New York and other states that voted against President Donald Trump.

Auditing firms cannot be expected to root out evil, or to conduct full forensic investigations.

A federal judge ruled PricewaterhouseCoopers was negligent in its audits of Colonial Bank, which failed in 2009 in the midst of the financial crisis, potentially exposing PwC to heavy damages.

Fund manager David Gorton sued a U.S. law firm for fraud after its lawyers convinced him to buy into a carbon-credit investment that they had an undeclared financial interest in, according to a London lawsuit.

Some Liberty Tax Inc. investors have lost patience with founder John Hewitt.

Lawyers for an Oxford graduate who is suing the university over his “disappointing” exam grades nearly two decades ago told a London court Tuesday that he missed out on going to law school in the U.S. because of his results.

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