Bob Van Voris

December 13, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Sam Bankman-Fried misled investors, telling them that FTX had sophisticated risk controls and that their assets were secure, according to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

By Bob Van Voris, Ava Benny-Morrison, Katanga Johnson and Gillian Tan

5 minute read

November 18, 2022 | Daily Business Review

The suit seeks $112 million in damages and alleges a former Citi executive's review of a trader's chat communications misled prosecutors in a way that falsely implicated him. He was found not guilty after a trial in 2018.

By Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg News

6 minute read

September 09, 2022 | Daily Business Review

The opinions from the three-judge panel provide a rare window on its disagreements over the case.

By Chris Dolmetsch, Katherine Doherty and Bob Van Voris

7 minute read

August 23, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Cristina Chen-Oster, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate, claims Goldman Sachs permitted its managers to make biased pay and promotion decisions, systematically denying women opportunities they deserved.

By Bob Van Voris

2 minute read

July 08, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Five chicken industry executives were found not guilty of conspiring to fix prices from 2012 to 2019, a defeat for prosecutors that came after two…

By Bob Van Voris

4 minute read

February 25, 2019 | ThinkAdvisor

The settlement required him to seek pre-approval for social media posts and other communication that would be material to the company or investors.

By Bob Van Voris, Matt Robinson and Ben Bain

2 minute read

June 21, 1999 | Law.com

By Bob Van Voris

1 minute read

January 16, 2001 | Law.com

Stung by bad publicity and dozens of rulings that it has withheld, hidden, or destroyed evidence in cases nationwide in recent years, lawyers for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. insist that the company has taken steps to ensure such obstruction doesn't happen in the future. But after more than a year working on the problem, it's clear that not everybody working on Wal-Mart's 10,000 lawsuits is with the program.

By Bob Van Voris

1 minute read

March 09, 2001 | Law.com

Anti-tobacco lawyers hope a long-awaited check for damages -- the first ever paid to a smoker in a tobacco liability case -- will be just one of many. On March 8, Grady Carter, a 70-year-old retired air traffic controller, collected the historic $1.1 million check on a 1995 verdict against Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co., maker of the Lucky Strike cigarettes he claimed caused his lung cancer.

By Bob Van Voris

3 minute read

July 19, 1999 | Law.com

Separate groups of plaintiffs' lawyers targeting Big Tobacco and the gun industry are steering cases to a maverick federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y., apparently hoping he will accept novel theories of industry-wide liability that might not succeed in any other courtroom in America.

By Bob Van Voris

3 minute read