{"id":4532,"date":"2007-12-04T01:18:31","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T01:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stockbrokerfraudblog.com\/2007\/12\/morgan_stanley_and_west_lb_los"},"modified":"2022-03-25T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T20:54:50","slug":"morgan-stanley-and-west-lb-los","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-and-west-lb-los\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Stanley and WestLB Lose Cases Because of E-Mail Evidence\u2014or Lack Thereof"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tBrokerage firms involved in legal disputes are finding that they are being forced to hand over relevant electronic conversations that are resulting in large jury verdicts, regulatory fines, and the possibility that investors might re-open arbitration cases where e-mail conversations had been suppressed. <\/p>\n

Here are a few cases where e-mail records played a key role that was generally not in the favor of the brokerage firm: <\/p>\n

Morgan Stanley may have to pay several thousand investors anywhere from $3,000 to $20,000 after settling a case with FINRA, who says the brokerage firm did not in fact lose millions of e-mails because of the September 11 terrorist attacks. Investors had said these e-mails could have helped prove their arbitration cases against Morgan Stanley. FINRA says that millions of these e-mails had been restored to the firm’s system and Morgan Stanley tried to withhold this fact. <\/p>\n

Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brokerage firms involved in legal disputes are finding that they are being forced to hand over relevant electronic conversations that are resulting in large jury verdicts, regulatory fines, and the possibility that investors might re-open arbitration cases where e-mail conversations had been suppressed. Here are a few cases where e-mail records played a key role […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3787,3755],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morgan-stanley","category-ubs"],"yoast_head":"\nMorgan Stanley and WestLB Lose Cases Because of E-Mail Evidence\u2014or Lack Thereof — Investor Lawyers Blog — December 4, 2007<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Brokerage firms involved in legal disputes are finding that they are being forced to hand over relevant electronic conversations that are resulting in — December 4, 2007\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-and-west-lb-los\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Morgan Stanley and WestLB Lose Cases Because of E-Mail Evidence\u2014or Lack Thereof — Investor Lawyers Blog — December 4, 2007\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Brokerage firms involved in legal disputes are finding that they are being forced to hand over relevant electronic conversations that are resulting in — December 4, 2007\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Morgan Stanley and WestLB Lose Cases Because of E-Mail Evidence\u2014or Lack Thereof — Investor Lawyers Blog — December 4, 2007","description":"Brokerage firms involved in legal disputes are finding that they are being forced to hand over relevant electronic conversations that are resulting in — December 4, 2007","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-and-west-lb-los\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Morgan Stanley and WestLB Lose Cases Because of E-Mail Evidence\u2014or Lack Thereof — Investor Lawyers Blog — December 4, 2007","twitter_description":"Brokerage firms involved in legal disputes are finding that they are being forced to hand over relevant electronic conversations that are resulting in — December 4, 2007","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-and-west-lb-los\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-and-west-lb-los\/"},"author":{"name":"Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP","@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e0240e0754684b69f7d6a7de1b9f1431"},"headline":"Morgan Stanley and WestLB Lose Cases Because of E-Mail Evidence\u2014or Lack Thereof","datePublished":"2007-12-04T01:18:31+00:00","dateModified":"2022-03-25T20:54:50+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-and-west-lb-los\/"},"wordCount":390,"articleSection":["Morgan Stanley","UBS"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-and-west-lb-los\/","url":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-and-west-lb-los\/","name":"Morgan Stanley and WestLB Lose Cases Because of E-Mail Evidence\u2014or Lack Thereof — Investor Lawyers Blog — December 4, 2007","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2007-12-04T01:18:31+00:00","dateModified":"2022-03-25T20:54:50+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e0240e0754684b69f7d6a7de1b9f1431"},"description":"Brokerage firms involved in legal disputes are finding that they are being forced to hand over relevant electronic conversations that are resulting in — December 4, 2007","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-and-west-lb-los\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-and-west-lb-los\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-and-west-lb-los\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Morgan Stanley and WestLB Lose Cases Because of E-Mail Evidence\u2014or Lack Thereof"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/","name":"Investor Lawyers Blog","description":"Published By Investment Fraud Attorneys \u2014 Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e0240e0754684b69f7d6a7de1b9f1431","name":"Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7f8f04990816cd4044977eb59908da8c8d1ae487cc919cebd7027b74a0740a3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7f8f04990816cd4044977eb59908da8c8d1ae487cc919cebd7027b74a0740a3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7f8f04990816cd4044977eb59908da8c8d1ae487cc919cebd7027b74a0740a3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas, LLP"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/"]}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedX9K-1b6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25639,"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions\/25639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}