General counsel today are looking at a more than 5% chance that their companies will be sued this year due to a drop in stock price, according to a new report.

The Securities Class Action Filings—2019 Midyear Assessment, released Thursday by Cornerstone Research and the Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse, shows that plaintiffs filed 198 new federal securities class actions in the first half of 2019. The number of filings continued this year at a near record level.

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