Founder and Managing Member, Schwartz & Associates, PC
Lou Schwartz founded Schwartz & Associates, PC in 2006. He trained as a corporate securities and M&A lawyer and has served as a chief executive and board chair of public and private companies in digital media, streaming and technology.
Admitted to practice in Georgia, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
The dismissal illustrates how courts are scrutinizing crypto-sector disclosure claims and sets a pleading-stage benchmark relevant to other securities suits over AML and regulatory-compliance statements.
BriefMass Torts
The recall adds to mounting FDA scrutiny of compounded GLP-1 products and could generate consumer injury and product-liability inquiries alongside other compounding-related litigation.
BriefCorporate & Governance
The ruling signals Delaware courts' willingness to let fraud and earnout claims proceed past the pleading stage in merger disputes, a theory relevant to other sellers pursuing post-closing earnout and integration-promise claims against acquirers.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
The ruling keeps alive claims seeking more than $5 billion in damages and could shape how courts evaluate exclusive-dealing and tying theories in other platform-lock-in consumer antitrust cases.
BriefCorporate & Governance
The ruling could shape how companies draft and litigate antitrust-closing-condition obligations in future mega-mergers, a question of direct interest to shareholders in failed large-scale deals.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
A successful challenge would block a merger affecting pricing and quality for public institutions nationwide and signals continued FTC scrutiny of serial roll-up acquisitions by private equity-owned companies.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
Section 12(j) revocation proceedings strip a company's securities of their registered status, which can eliminate trading markets and complicate recovery efforts for existing shareholders of delinquent filers.
BriefMass Torts
A recall of this scale covering widely distributed ready-to-eat meat products can generate foodborne-illness complaints and product-liability inquiries that plaintiff firms track alongside other large food-safety recalls.
BriefCorporate & Governance
The decision is an early test of how Delaware courts will police special-committee conduct and founder-control preservation schemes under the state's revised corporate law framework, relevant to investors in other dual-class companies.
BriefCorporate & Governance
The ruling illustrates how Delaware's high court applies fiduciary and business-opportunity doctrines to disputes over control of jointly owned ventures, a framework relevant to other closely held company and litigation-finance ownership fights.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
The approval confirms a sizable recovery path for consumers in a major bank data breach case and offers a benchmark for valuing claims in other pending financial-sector breach litigation.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
The ruling raises the bar for plaintiffs seeking classwide treatment of consumer deception claims tied to statements buyers may not have uniformly seen, a theory relevant to other vehicle and tech marketing class actions.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
The articulated knowledge standard could shape both future FTC enforcement and private claims against payment processors accused of facilitating deceptive merchant conduct.
BriefMass Torts
Keeping a major pharmacy benefit manager in the opioid MDL bellwether pool preserves a litigation track that could shape settlement values for thousands of other PBM-related opioid claims.
BriefMass Torts
Quality-control recalls of widely sold over-the-counter drugs can generate consumer complaints and potential product-liability inquiries that plaintiff firms track alongside the broader acetaminophen litigation landscape.
BriefMass Torts
The verdict will be the second data point on infection-based claims in a docket of roughly 4,100 pending PowerPort cases and will further inform how both sides value remaining claims.
AnalysisCorporate & Governance
Georgia lets LLC members write almost any rules they want, and fills every gap with defaults that rarely match the deal. These eight sections decide who owns, who votes, who pays and how someone leaves.
AnalysisCorporate & Governance
Georgia enforces non-competes that are reasonable in time, area and scope, but only against certain employees. Here is who can be bound, how long a restriction can last and what a court can do with an overbroad clause.
AnalysisCorporate & Governance
Without a written operating agreement, Georgia law splits profits and distributions equally and gives each member one vote, whatever each person invested. Here is what the default rules say and what to put in writing.
AnalysisCorporate & Governance
A nondisclosure agreement protects information only if the information is actually kept confidential and the agreement is drafted to fit Georgia and federal law. Three provisions matter more than the rest.
AnalysisCorporate & Governance
Georgia sets a default interest rate when the note is silent, caps small loans, makes interest above 5 percent per month a crime and applies a specific formula to attorney's fee clauses. A clear written note avoids most of the trouble.
AnalysisConsumer & Data Privacy
For leases entered into or renewed on or after July 1, 2024, Georgia caps security deposits at two months' rent, implies a habitability term and requires a three-business-day notice before an eviction filing for unpaid rent. A lease drafted before then may need updating.
AnalysisCorporate & Governance
Federal tax rules, federal wage law and Georgia unemployment law each test whether a worker is really a contractor, and each looks at how the work is done in practice. The federal wage-law test is also in the middle of a rule change.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
The payout shows the FTC continuing to enforce consumer-redress obligations under a settled e-commerce shipping and refund case, a pattern relevant to parallel consumer claims against online marketplaces over similar practices.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
The case shows continued SEC pursuit of trading-allocation fraud by investment advisers and could inform parallel private claims by advisory clients who lost money in the disfavored portfolios.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
A ruling tightening or loosening the pleading bar for ERISA fund-underperformance claims could directly affect how plaintiff-side firms plead 401(k) and 403(b) excessive-fee and imprudent-investment class actions nationwide.
BriefCorporate & Governance
The ruling will show how Delaware courts police the line between litigation and arbitration in failed strategic-partnership and share-sale transactions, a forum-selection issue relevant to shareholders and investors in similarly structured deals.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
The ruling signals how Delaware federal courts police procedural compliance by plaintiff-side counsel in investor litigation, even where they stop short of monetary sanctions.
BriefCorporate & Governance
The case will test whether Delaware courts will look past a deal's licensing-and-hiring label to its economic substance, a question relevant to shareholders in other large AI-sector "reverse acqui-hire" transactions structured to avoid a merger vote.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
The first-of-its-kind theory of liability against a third-party franchise seller could inform parallel private claims by franchisees against sales intermediaries in other deceptive-franchise-marketing disputes.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
A coordinated warning to major hospital systems over price-quote practices could lay groundwork for future FTC enforcement and bolster related state-law consumer claims over hospital billing transparency.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
The recovery is one of the FTC's largest actions against a multi-level marketing company and could inform parallel private claims over deceptive earnings representations in similar MLM structures.
BriefCorporate & Governance
The decision shows how Delaware courts enforce procedural waivers over forum-selection disputes in insurance coverage litigation, an issue relevant when mass tort defendants and their insurers fight over which court decides coverage for underlying injury claims.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
The suit adds a state-federal coordinated enforcement action over deceptive online pricing that could lead to consumer redress and may inform related private consumer-protection claims.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
The settlement signals continued FTC willingness to pursue price-discrimination claims that can affect small-business purchasers and inform parallel private antitrust or consumer claims.
BriefMass Torts
The new MDLs give plaintiffs centralized venues to pursue claims against two more spinal cord stimulator manufacturers, expanding litigation the firm already tracks alongside the Boston Scientific docket.
BriefCorporate & Governance
The case is one of the larger pending Delaware appraisal fights, a type of litigation plaintiff-side firms watch because it lets dissenting shareholders challenge merger consideration in court.
BriefMass Torts
A pre-trial settlement in the third bellwether removes another test case from the jury pool in an MDL with roughly 4,000 pending claims, a development plaintiff firms track when valuing remaining cases.
BriefMass Torts
The conference marks the formal start of coordinated pretrial proceedings and signals the litigation's transition from early filings toward structured discovery and eventual bellwether scheduling.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
The judgment illustrates continued federal enforcement against fraudulent investment schemes, a pattern plaintiff-side firms monitor when evaluating parallel civil claims on behalf of defrauded consumers.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
The order moves settlement funds closer to harmed investors, a step plaintiff-side firms track to confirm clients' recoveries from SEC enforcement actions are being paid out.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
By rejecting a bright-line stock-price test for materiality, the ruling makes it harder for securities defendants in the Third Circuit to win dismissal simply because a stock price did not move after a corrective disclosure, which could help plaintiffs survive motions to dismiss in future cases.
BriefCorporate & Governance
The decision illustrates how Delaware courts scrutinize post-merger earnout disputes and can impose affirmative monetary liability on a seller found to have manipulated earnout metrics, a precedent relevant to merger and earnout litigation the firm may encounter.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
The decision keeps alive a major federal consumer-protection case over ticket-buying practices and fee disclosures, with the case now moving into discovery where more facts about the companies' practices may come to light.
BriefMass Torts
If the Panel grants the motions, manufacturer-specific spinal cord stimulator MDLs would sit alongside the Boston Scientific MDL created in June 2026.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
The order substantially widens the group of consumers receiving redress under one of the largest FTC settlements over subscription enrollment and cancellation practices.
BriefCorporate & Governance
If adopted, the proposal would remove the federal route shareholders use to put proposals on company proxies, changing governance activism and related litigation strategy.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
The action reflects the SEC's focus on affinity fraud against retail investors; the allegations have not been adjudicated.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
A liability ruling for a state attorney general on platform safety misrepresentations adds to the record in parallel youth social media litigation and could shape other state enforcement.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
The reported lead plaintiff deadline is September 28, 2026, and it applies only to an investor who wants to ask the court to lead the case; class members do not need to act by that date to remain in the class.
BriefMass Torts
Bellwether verdicts inform, but do not decide, the roughly 3,700 other cases pending in the MDL, and post-trial motions or an appeal may follow.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
If signed, the bill would bar private suits under section 638.51 over website and app tracking, including pending claims in suits filed on or after January 1, 2025, while claims under sections 631 and 632 would remain available.
BriefCorporate & Governance
The statutory safe harbors added in 2025 may not end merger litigation at the motion-to-dismiss stage when their conditions are disputed.
BriefMass Torts
The settlement resolves claims by the participating states; claims by individual plaintiffs and school districts in the MDL remain pending.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
The settlement website lists a September 14, 2026 claim deadline; payments to class members with valid claims depend on the claims review and any appeals.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
In the Second Circuit, an FDIC receivership does not by itself take over failed-bank investors' securities fraud claims.
BriefMass Torts
Turnout gear claims that do not involve AFFF exposure now proceed on their own track rather than inside the AFFF litigation.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
Californians can ask every registered data broker to delete their personal information with a single request.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
Regulators are applying consumer protection law to the kind of health-data tracking at issue in many private pixel-tracking suits.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
In Cornerstone's count, AI-related filings accounted for about 73% of the Disclosure Dollar Loss Index in the first half of 2026.
BriefMass Torts
Whether participation reaches the 95% threshold will determine whether most claims in the largest pending MDL settle or continue in litigation.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
In federal courts in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, investors seeking class certification now face a more demanding damages showing.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
In federal courts in Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, Do-Not-Call claims based on texts are now foreclosed, while courts elsewhere may decide differently.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
Texas's age-verification and parental-consent requirements for app downloads can be enforced while the challenge continues.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
Securities class actions rarely reach a jury, and the ruling shows how a court tests loss causation and class certification after a verdict for investors.
BriefConsumer & Data Privacy
The case targets pre-checked add-on fees and incomplete price disclosure, conduct that also appears in private consumer class actions.
BriefMass Torts
Failure-to-warn claims are central to many pending Roundup cases; how the ruling applies to claims that do not depend on the label will be decided case by case.
BriefCorporate & Governance
Shareholders bringing derivative claims in Delaware face a higher pleading bar when they allege that exchange-independent directors are conflicted.
BriefMass Torts
Under Case Management Order No. 14, settlement registration runs through November 30, 2026, and the court set an initial bellwether trial for December 7, 2026, subject to its rulings on preemption and expert evidence.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
Closed-end fund shareholders lose a federal path for undoing fund governance measures such as control-share provisions.
BriefMass Torts
Federal Boston Scientific stimulator injury cases now proceed before one judge; the Panel reported 29 actions pending as of September 1, 2026.
BriefMass Torts
Pretrial proceedings for federal Dupixent cases now run before one judge; the Panel reported 35 actions pending as of September 1, 2026.
BriefSecurities & Shareholder
Disgorgement is one of the ways money is returned to harmed investors, and the ruling removes a defense argument against it.
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