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Earlier this year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) warned servicers that they must cease any unlawful conduct as it pertains to private student loans discharged in bankruptcy court. According to the CFPB’s Compliance Bulletin and Policy Guidance, examiners found that certain loan servicers illegally returned non-qualified education loans to collections despite their discharged status, […]

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his November 2023 summary of opinions and statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. These statistics are based on 213 total opinions released by the Court. Click here to read more on his Take the Fifth blog. Our lawyers handle appeals for both plaintiffs […]

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his October 2023 summary of opinions and statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. These statistics are based on 225 total opinions released by the Court. Click here to read more on his Take the Fifth blog. Starting this month, Bartlett began tracking a […]

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his 2022-2023 annual statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. These statistics are based on 2,696 total opinions released by the Court. Click here to read more on his Take the Fifth blog. Our lawyers handle appeals for both plaintiffs and defendants in civil […]

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his September 2023 summary of opinions and statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. These statistics are based on 186 total opinions released by the Court. Click here to read more on his Take the Fifth blog. Our lawyers handle appeals for both plaintiffs […]

Special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”) have been in the litigation spotlight recently. As SPAC disputes play out in courts nationwide, one especially interesting field of play is in the Delaware Chancery courts where SPAC shareholders are pursuing breach of fiduciary duty cases against SPAC sponsors, officers, and directors. How did this litigation develop, and where […]

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his August 2023 summary of opinions and statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. These statistics are based on 280 total opinions released by the Court. Click here to read more on his Take the Fifth blog. Our lawyers handle appeals for both plaintiffs […]

Jason Burge, a partner in Fishman Haygood’s Litigation Section, authored the article “Investors Cornered: The Risks of Securities-Backed Loans” published in the most recent edition of the PIABA Bar Journal, a publication of the Public Investors Advocate Bar Association (PIABA). Burge explores several risks and disadvantages of securities-backed loans that are not as well understood or […]

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his July 2023 summary of opinions and statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. These statistics are based on 216 total opinions released by the Court. Click here to read more on his Take the Fifth blog. Our lawyers handle appeals for both plaintiffs […]

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his June 2023 summary of opinions and statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. These statistics

In a victory for the Walt Disney Company, the Delaware Court of Chancery barred a Disney stockholder from obtaining corporate records about the company’s 2022 decision to publicly oppose Florida’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” legislation

Partner Molly Wells recently authored “Supreme Court to Resolve Circuit Split on Preservation Requirements” for the Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit (BAFFC) newsletter. In the article

Rarely does a case come along where things just seem to go right. Would our decades-long fight over claims that several banks aided and abetted R. Allen Stanford and Stanford International Bank

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his May 2023 summary of opinions and statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his Apr. 2023 summary of opinions and statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

On Apr. 9, 2023, FTX’s current CEO John R. Ray III filed an interim report in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware following the company’s Chapter 11 filing

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his Mar. 2023 summary of opinions and statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

In Part I of our “The ‘E’ in ESG” series, partner Blair Schilling defines greenwashing, explores why it occurs, and considers recent lawsuits.

On Feb. 22, 2023, Fishman Haygood, LLP and Stumphauzer Kolaya Nadler & Sloman, PLLC (SKN&S) filed a sweeping class action lawsuit on behalf of FTX customers in federal court

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his Feb. 2023 summary of opinions and statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

The Eastern District of New York Bankruptcy Court entered a nationwide injunction to curb debt collection abuses, but the Second Circuit will soon consider

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his Jan. 2023 summary of opinions and statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his Dec. 2022 summary of opinions and statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his Nov. 2022 summary of opinions and statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his Oct. 2022 summary of opinions and statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Attorney Tad Bartlett, Fishman Haygood special counsel, has published his Oct. 2021-Sept. 2022 annual statistics from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

In the wake of Hurricane Ida, businesses should look to their insurance policies to find coverage, whether for property damage, business interruption losses, or other covered losses. Fishman Haygood’s team of experienced insurance coverage attorneys

Because the overall market has performed well over the past several years, a great deal of investor losses and broker misconduct has gone undetected. COVID-19 may have brought that misconduct to light.

As more investors eye lucrative investment opportunities in Qualified Opportunity Zones, the SEC and state regulators will be monitoring securities activities associated with the program, according to Fishman Haygood Partner Maureen Gershanik.

The Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund today announced the opening of the calendar year 2019 allocation round of the federal new markets tax credit (NMTC). Applications are due October 28, 2019.

The Opportunity Zones (“OZ”) tax incentive allows taxpayers to defer until 2026 taxes on capital gains if those profits are reinvested in opportunity funds–which are equity funds that invest in businesses in opportunity zones.

Real Estate Developers in Louisiana can receive tax dollars to enhance projects through Economic Development Districts (EDDs). EDDS are strictly defined geographic areas that are authorized and created by ordinance of the city or parish where they are located.

Fishman Haygood and New Orleans CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women) welcome CREW delegates from across the country for the 2019 CREW Network Leadership Summit.