{"id":68,"date":"2014-03-17T13:25:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wka-law.com\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2014-03-17T13:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T13:25:26","slug":"securities-fraud-litigation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wka-law.com\/index.php\/practice-areas\/securities-fraud-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Securities Fraud Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Securities fraud can occur when a company publishes false or misleading information about its business. Sometimes, the information is misleading because it is only a half-truth; in other cases, the company has not disclosed all of the relevant information. These are some of the forms securities fraud can take:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Concealing important adverse information about the company;<\/li>\n<li>Misrepresenting how well the company\u2019s product is selling; and<\/li>\n<li>Significant accounting irregularities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If an investor buys or sells stock at a price that has been affected by fraudulent information from the company, federal law allows the investor to sue for damages. Most often, a company, its top management and board of directors may be sued for such violations. Other individuals may also be sued, such as accountants or other professionals who knew about the fraud.<\/p>\n<p>The Firm has pursued numerous securities class actions over the years involving companies in industries such as: cellular telephones, computer manufacturing, motion pictures, oil and gas production, real estate and software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Securities fraud can occur when a company publishes false or misleading information about its business. Sometimes, the information is misleading because it is only a half-truth; in other cases, the company has not disclosed all of the relevant information. These are some of the forms securities fraud can take: Concealing important adverse information about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wka-law.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wka-law.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wka-law.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wka-law.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wka-law.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wka-law.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/wka-law.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/69"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wka-law.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wka-law.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}