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Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, a firm of over 50 attorneys in offices located in New York, 

California, New Jersey, and Louisiana, prosecutes class and private actions, nationwide, on behalf of individual and 

institutional clients. The firm’s litigation practice concentrates in the areas of securities class actions in federal and 

state courts; corporate governance litigation, including claims for breach of fiduciary duty and proxy violations; 

antitrust; prosecuting violations of federal and state anti-discrimination laws and vindication of employee rights; and 

consumer class actions. We also handle, on behalf of major institutional clients and lenders, more general complex 

commercial litigation involving allegations of breach of contract, accountants’ liability, breach of fiduciary duty, 

fraud, and negligence. 

We are the nation’s leading firm in representing institutional investors in securities fraud class action litigation. The 

firm’s institutional client base includes the New York State Common Retirement Fund, the California Public 

Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), and the New York City Pension Funds, the largest public pension funds 

in the United States, collectively managing over $300 billion in assets; the Los Angeles County Employees’ 

Retirement Association (LACERA); the Chicago Municipal, Police and Labor Retirement Systems; the State of 

Wisconsin Investment Board; the Retirement Systems of Alabama; the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust 

Funds; the City of Detroit Pension Systems; the Houston Firefighters’ and Municipal Employees’ Pension Funds; 

the Louisiana School, State, Teachers and Municipal Police Retirement Systems; the Public School Teachers’ 

Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago; the New Jersey Division of Investment of the Department of the Treasury; 

TIAA-CREF and other private institutions; as well as numerous other public and Taft-Hartley pension entities. 

Since its founding in 1983, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has litigated some of the most complex 

cases in history and has obtained over $20 billion on behalf of investors. Unique among its peers, the firm has 

negotiated the largest settlements ever agreed to by public companies related to securities fraud, and obtained five of 

the seven largest securities recoveries in history. 

As Co-Lead Counsel for the Class representing Lead Plaintiff the New York State Common Retirement Fund in In 

re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation, arising from the financial fraud and subsequent bankruptcy at WorldCom, 

Inc., we obtained unprecedented settlements from the investment bank defendants who underwrote WorldCom 

bonds totaling more than $6 billion, the second largest securities recovery in history. Additionally, all of the former 

WorldCom Director Defendants agreed to pay over $60 million to settle the claims against them. An unprecedented 

first for outside directors, $24.75 million of that amount is coming out of the pockets of the individuals—20% of 

their collective net worth. Also, after four weeks of trial, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom’s former auditor, settled for 

$65 million. In July 2005, settlements had been reached with the former executives of WorldCom, bringing the total 

obtained for the Class to over $6.15 billion. 

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The firm was also Co-Lead Counsel in In re Cendant Corporation Securities Litigation, which settled for more than 

$3 billion in cash. This settlement is the largest ever recovered from a public company and a public accounting firm 

and includes some of the most significant corporate governance changes ever achieved through securities class 

action litigation. The firm represented Lead Plaintiffs CalPERS, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, 

and the New York City Pension Funds on behalf of all purchasers of Cendant securities during the class period. 

In January 2005, the firm announced the $960 million settlement of In re McKesson HBOC Inc. Securities

Litigation. Additionally, the firm was lead counsel in the celebrated In re Washington Public Power Supply System 

Litigation, which, after seven years of litigation and three months of jury trial, resulted in what was then the largest 

securities fraud recovery ever – over $750 million. 

In 2003, the firm, as Co-Lead Counsel representing numerous public pension fund and institutional investor Lead 

Plaintiffs, obtained two more of the largest securities settlements in history. A settlement package composed of 

cash, stock, and warrants currently valued at greater than $600 million resolved the In re Lucent Technologies, Inc. 

Securities Litigation, and DaimlerChrysler agreed to pay $300 million to settle the In re DaimlerChrysler Securities 

Litigation. 

The firm’s prosecution of Arthur Andersen LLP, for Andersen’s role in the 1999 collapse of the Baptist Foundation 

of Arizona (“BFA”), received intense national and international media attention. As lead trial counsel for the 

defrauded BFA investors, the firm obtained a cash settlement of $217 million from Andersen in May 2002, after six 

days of what was scheduled to be a three month trial. In combination with prospective BFA asset sales and a 

settlement with BFA’s former law firm, it is expected that the over 11,000 retirees and investors will recover over 

70% of their losses. The case was covered in great detail by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The 

Washington Post, “60 Minutes II,” National Public Radio, and the BBC, as well as various other international news 

outlets. 

Equally important, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP has successfully advanced novel and socially 

beneficial principles by developing important new law in the areas in which we litigate. 

The firm served as co-lead counsel on behalf of Texaco’s African-American employees in Roberts v. Texaco Inc., 

which similarly resulted in the largest settlement ever in a race discrimination case. The creation of a Task Force to 

oversee Texaco’s human resources activities for five years was unprecedented and will, undoubtedly, serve as a 

model for public companies into the next century. 

On behalf of twelve public pension funds, including the New York State Common Retirement Fund, CalPERS, 

LACERA, and other institutional investors, the firm successfully prosecuted McCall v. Scott, a derivative suit filed 

against the directors and officers of Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation, the subject of the largest health care 

fraud investigation in history. This settlement, announced in February 2003, included a landmark corporate 

governance plan which went well beyond all recently enacted regulatory reforms, greatly enhancing the corporate 

governance structure in place at HCA. 

In the consumer field, the firm has gained a nationwide reputation for vigorously protecting the rights of individuals 

and for achieving exceptional settlements. In several instances, the firm has obtained recoveries for consumer 

classes that represented the entirety of the class’ losses – an extraordinary result in consumer class cases. 

Additionally, the firm has become a leader in the area of Internet Privacy and is counsel in several of the seminal 

cases that have been brought on behalf of Internet users whose personal information is being intercepted and sent to 

Web-based companies. 

Our firm is dedicated to litigating with the highest level of professional competence, striving to secure the maximum 

possible recovery for our clients in the most efficient and professionally responsible manner. In those cases where 

we have served as either lead counsel or as a member of plaintiffs’ executive committee, the firm has recovered 

billions of dollars for our clients. 

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THE FIRM’S PRACTICE AREAS

Securities Fraud Litigation

Securities fraud litigation is the cornerstone of the firm’s class action litigation practice. Since its founding, the firm 

has tried and settled many high profile securities fraud class actions and continues to play a leading role in major 

securities litigation pending in federal and state courts. Moreover, since passage of the Private Securities Litigation 

Reform Act of 1995, which sought to encourage institutional investors to become more pro-active in securities fraud 

class action litigation, the firm has become the nation’s leader in representing institutional investors in securities 

fraud and derivative litigation. 

The firm has the distinction of having prosecuted many of the most complex and high-profile cases in securities law 

history, recovering billions of dollars and obtaining unprecedented corporate governance reforms on behalf of our 

clients. Several of the firm’s high-profile current prosecutions and outstanding accomplishments as class counsel 

are detailed in our Recent Actions and Significant Recoveries section beginning on page 8. 

The attorneys in the securities fraud litigation practice group have extensive experience in the laws that regulate the 

securities markets and in the disclosure requirements of corporations that issue publicly traded securities. Many of 

the attorneys in this practice group also have accounting backgrounds and one is a certified public accountant. The 

group has access to state-of-the-art, online financial wire services and databases, which enable them to 

instantaneously investigate any potential securities fraud action involving a public company’s debt and equity 

securities. 

Corporate Governance and Shareholders’ Rights

The corporate governance and shareholders’ rights practice group prosecutes derivative actions, claims for breach of 

fiduciary duty and proxy violations on behalf of individual and institutional investors in state and federal courts 

throughout the country. The group has prosecuted actions challenging numerous highly publicized corporate 

transactions which violated fair process and fair price, and the applicability of the business judgment rule. The 

group has also addressed issues of corporate waste, shareholder voting rights claims, and executive compensation. 

As a result of the firm’s high profile and widely recognized capabilities, the corporate governance practice group is 

increasingly in demand by institutional investors who are exercising a more assertive voice with corporate boards 

regarding corporate governance issues and the board’s accountability to shareholders. A major component of the 

Cendant settlement referenced above is Cendant’s agreement to adopt the most extensive corporate governance 

changes in history. 

Recent examples of highly successful M&A litigation conducted by Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann 

include the widely publicized lawsuit arising from the proposed acquisition of Caremark Corp. by CVS Corp.—

which led to an increase of approximately $3.5 billion in the consideration offered to shareholders—as well as the 

lawsuit over an attempted buyout of Cablevision Corp. by its controlling family—which, although still ongoing, has 

resulted in an increase of over $2.2 billion in the consideration currently on offer to Cablevision shareholders. The 

firm is now actively involved in litigating numerous cases in this area of law, an area that has become increasingly 

important in light of the significant recent increase in M&A activity and the associated efforts by various market 

participants to buy companies from their public shareholders “on the cheap.” 

Employment Discrimination and Civil Rights

The employment discrimination and civil rights practice group prosecutes class and multi-plaintiff actions, and other 

high impact litigation against employers and other societal institutions that violate federal or state employment, antidiscrimination, and civil rights laws. The practice group represents diverse clients on a wide range of issues 

including Title VII actions, race, gender, sexual orientation and age discrimination suits, sexual harassment and 

“glass ceiling” cases in which otherwise qualified employees are passed over for promotions to managerial or 

executive positions. 

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Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP is committed to effecting positive social change in the workplace and 

in society. The practice group has the necessary financial and human resources to ensure that the class action 

approach to discrimination and civil rights issues is successful. This litigation method serves to empower employees 

and other civil rights victims, who are usually discouraged from pursuing litigation because of personal financial 

limitations, and offers the potential for effecting the greatest positive change for the greatest number of people 

affected by discriminatory practice in the workplace. As stated, the firm’s practice group recently settled the Texaco

racial discrimination lawsuit for $176 million, the largest settlement in the history of employment discrimination 

cases. 

Consumer Advocacy

The consumer advocacy practice group at Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP prosecutes cases across the 

entire spectrum of consumer rights, consumer fraud, and consumer protection issues. The firm represents victimized 

consumers in state and federal courts nationwide in individual and class action lawsuits that seek to provide 

consumers and purchasers of defective products with a means to recover their damages. The attorneys in this group 

are well versed in the vast array of laws and regulations that govern consumer interests and are aggressive, effective, 

court-tested litigators. The consumer practice advocacy group has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for 

millions of consumers throughout the country. Most notably, in a number of cases, the firm has obtained recoveries 

for the class that were the entirety of the potential damages suffered by the consumer. For example, in recent 

actions against MCI and Empire Blue Cross, the firm recovered all of the damages suffered by the class. 

The group has achieved its successes by advancing innovative claims and theories of liabilities, such as obtaining 

decisions in Pennsylvania and Illinois appellate courts that adopted a new theory of consumer damages in mass 

marketing cases. Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP is, thus, able to lead the way in protecting the rights 

of consumers. For example, the firm is a recognized leader in Internet privacy, where it prosecuted several seminal 

cases on behalf of Web users whose personal information has been unwittingly intercepted and sent to Internet 

companies in violation of federal statutes and state law. 

THE COURTS SPEAK 

Throughout the firm’s history, many courts have recognized the professional competence and diligence of the firm 

and its members. A few examples are set forth below. 

Judge Denise Cote (United States District Court for the Southern District of New York) has noted, several times on 

the record, the quality of BLB&G’s ongoing representation of the Class in In re WorldCom, Inc. Securities 

Litigation. Judge Cote on December 16, 2003: 

“I have the utmost confidence in plaintiffs’ counsel . . . they have been doing a superb 

job. . . . The Class is extraordinarily well represented in this litigation.” 

In granting final approval of the $2.575 billion settlement obtained from the Citigroup Defendants, Judge Cote again 

praised BLB&G’s efforts: 

“The magnitude of this settlement is attributable in significant part to Lead Counsel’s 

advocacy and energy....The quality of the representation given by Lead Counsel...has 

been superb...and is unsurpassed in this Court’s experience with plaintiffs’ counsel in 

securities litigation. Lead Counsel has been energetic and creative.... Its negotiations 

with the Citigroup Defendants have resulted in a settlement of historic proportions.” 

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In February 2005, at the conclusion of trial of In re Clarent Corporation Securities Litigation, The Honorable 

Charles R. Breyer of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California praised the efforts of 

counsel: “It was the best tried case I’ve witnessed in my years on the bench....[A]n extraordinarily civilized way of 

presenting the issues to you [the jury]....We’ve all been treated to great civility and the highest professional ethics in 

the presentation of the case.... The evidence was carefully presented to you....They got dry subject matter and made 

it interesting... [brought] the material alive... good trial lawyers can do that.... I’ve had fascinating criminal trials 

that were far less interesting than this case. [I]t’s a great thing to be able to see another aspect of life... It keeps you 

young...vibrant... [and] involved in things... These trial lawyers are some of the best I’ve ever seen.” 

* * * 

In granting the Court’s approval of the resolution and prosecution of McCall v. Scott, a shareholder derivative 

lawsuit against certain former senior executives of HCA Healthcare (formerly Columbia/HCA), Senior Judge 

Thomas A. Higgins (United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee) said that the settlement “confers an 

exceptional benefit upon the company and the shareholders by way of the corporate governance plan. . . . Counsel’s 

excellent qualifications and reputations are well documented in the record, and they have litigated this complex case 

adeptly and tenaciously throughout the six years it has been pending. They assumed an enormous risk and have 

shown great patience by taking this case on a contingent basis, and despite an early setback they have persevered 

and brought about not only a large cash settlement but sweeping corporate reforms that may be invaluable to the 

beneficiaries.” 

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Judge Walls (District of New Jersey), in approving the $3.2 billion Cendant settlement, said that the recovery from 

all defendants, which represents a 37% recovery to the Class, “far exceeds recovery rates of any case cited by the 

parties.” The Court also held that the $335 million separate recovery from E&Y is “large” when “[v]iewed in light 

of recoveries against accounting firms for securities damages.” In granting Lead Counsel’s fee request, the Court 

determined that “there is no other catalyst for the present settlement than the work of Lead Counsel. . . . This Court, 

and no other judicial officer, has maintained direct supervision over the parties from the outset of litigation to the 

present time. In addition to necessary motion practice, the parties regularly met with and reported to the Court every 

five or six weeks during this period about the status of negotiations between them. . . . [T]he Court has no reason to 

attribute a portion of the Cendant settlement to others’ efforts; Lead Counsel were the only relevant material factors 

for the settlement they directly negotiated.” The Court found that “[t]he quality of result, measured by the size of 

settlement, is very high. . . . The Cendant settlement amount alone is over three times larger than the next largest 

recovery achieved to date in a class action case for violations of the securities laws, and approximately ten times 

greater than any recovery in a class action case involving fraudulent financial statements. . . The E&Y settlement is 

the largest amount ever paid by an accounting firm in a securities class action.” The Court went on to observe that 

“the standing, experience and expertise of the counsel, the skill and professionalism with which counsel prosecuted 

the case and the performance and quality of opposing counsel were high in this action. Lead Counsel are 

experienced securities litigators who ably prosecuted the action.” The Court concluded that this Action resulted in 

“excellent settlements of uncommon amount engineered by highly skilled counsel with reasonable cost to the class.” 

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After approving the settlement in Alexander v. Pennzoil Company, the Honorable Vanessa D. Gilmore of the United 

States District Court for the Southern District of Texas ended the settlement hearing by praising our firm for the 

quality of the settlement and our commitment to effectuating change in the workplace. “... the lawyers for the 

plaintiffs ... did a tremendous, tremendous job. ... not only in the monetary result obtained, but the substantial and 

very innovative programmatic relief that the plaintiffs have obtained in this case ... treating people fairly and with 

respect can only inure to the benefit of everybody concerned. I think all these lawyers did an outstanding job trying 

to make sure that that’s the kind of thing that this case left behind.” 

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On February 23, 2001, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval 

of the $259 million cash settlement in In re 3Com Securities Litigation, the largest settlement of a securities class 

action in the Ninth Circuit since the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act was passed in 1995, and the fourth 

largest recovery ever obtained in a securities class action. The district court, in an Order entered on March 9, 2001, 

specifically commented on the quality of counsel’s efforts and the settlement, holding that “counsel’s representation 

[of the class] was excellent, and ... the results they achieved were substantial and extraordinary.” The Court 

described our firm as “among the most experienced and well qualified in this country in [securities fraud] litigation.” 

* * * 

United States District Judge Todd J. Campbell of the Middle District of Tennessee heard arguments on Plaintiffs’ 

Motion for Preliminary Injunction in Cason v. Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation Litigation, the highly 

publicized discriminatory lending class action, on September 5, 2001. He exhibited his own brand of candor in 

commenting on the excellent work of counsel in this matter: “In fact, the lawyering in this case... is as good as I’ve 

seen in any case. So y’all are to be commended for that.” 

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In approving the $30 million settlement in the Assisted Living Concepts, Inc. Securities Litigation, the Honorable 

Ann L. Aiken of the Federal District Court in Oregon, praised the recovery and the work of counsel. She stated that, 

“...without a doubt...this is a...tremendous result as a result of very fine work...by the...attorneys in this case.” 

* * * 

The Honorable Judge Edward A. Infante of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California 

expressed high praise for the settlement and the expertise of plaintiffs’ counsel when he approved the final 

settlement in the Wright v. MCI Communications Corporation consumer class action. “The settlement. . . . is a very 

favorable settlement to the class. . . . to get an 85% result was extraordinary, and plaintiffs’ counsel should be 

complimented for it on this record. . . . The recommendations of experienced counsel weigh heavily on the court. 

The lawyers before me are specialists in class action litigation. They’re well known to me, particularly Mr. Berger, 

and I have confidence that if Mr. Berger and the other plaintiffs’ counsel think this is a good, well-negotiated 

settlement, I find it is.” The case was settled for $14.5 million. 

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At the In re Computron Software, Inc. Securities Litigation settlement hearing, Judge Alfred J. Lechner, Jr. of the 

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey approved the final settlement and commended Bernstein 

Litowitz Berger & Grossmann’s efforts on behalf of the Class. “I think the job that was done here was simply 

outstanding. I think all of you just did a superlative job and I’m appreciat[ive] not only for myself, but the court 

system and the plaintiffs themselves. The class should be very, very pleased with the way this turned out, how 

expeditiously it’s been moved.” In In re Computron Software, Inc. Securities Litigation was a securities fraud class 

action filed on behalf of shareholders who purchased Computron common stock at inflated prices due to alleged 

misrepresentation about the company’s financial obligation. The case settled for $15 million dollars. 

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The In re Louisiana-Pacific Corporation Securities Litigation, filed in the United States District Court, District of 

Oregon, was a securities class action alleging fraud and misrepresentations in connection with the sale of defective 

building materials. Our firm, together with co-lead counsel, negotiated a settlement of $65.1 million, the largest 

securities fraud settlement in Oregon history, which was approved by Judge Robert Jones on February 12, 1997. 

The Court there recognized that “. . . the work that is involved in this case could only be accomplished through the 

unique talents of plaintiffs’ lawyers . . . which involved a talent that is not just simply available in the mainstream of 

litigators.” 

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Judge Kimba M. Wood of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who presided over 

the six-week securities fraud class action jury trial in In re ICN/Viratek Securities Litigation, also recently praised 

our firm for the quality of the representation afforded to the class and the skill and expertise demonstrated 

throughout the litigation and trial especially. The Court commented that “. . . plaintiffs’ counsel did a superb job 

here on behalf of the class. . . This was a very hard fought case. You had very able, superb opponents, and they put 

you to your task. . . The trial work was beautifully done and I believe very efficiently done. . .” 

* * * 

Similarly, the Court in the In re Prudential-Bache Energy Income Partnership Securities Litigation, United States 

District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, recognized Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP’s “. . . 

professional standing among its peers.” In that case, which was settled for $120 million, our firm served as Chair of 

Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee. 

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In the landmark securities fraud case, In re Washington Public Power Supply System Litigation (United States 

District Court, District of Arizona), the district court called the quality of representation “exceptional,” noting that 

“[t]his was a case of overwhelmingly unique proportions. . . a rare and exceptional case involving extraordinary 

services on behalf of Class plaintiffs.” The Court also observed that “[a] number of attorneys dedicated significant 

portions of their professional careers to this litigation, . . . champion[ing] the cause of Class members in the face of 

commanding and vastly outnumbering opposition. . . [and] in the face of uncertain victory. . . . [T]hey succeeded 

admirably.” 

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Likewise, in In re Electro-Catheter Securities Litigation, where our firm served as co-lead counsel, Judge Nicholas 

Politan of the United States District Court for New Jersey said: 

Counsel in this case are highly competent, very skilled in this very specialized area 

and were at all times during the course of the litigation...always well prepared, well 

spoken, and knew their stuff and they were a credit to their profession. They are the 

top of the line. 

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In our ongoing prosecution of the In re Bennett Funding Group Securities Litigation, the largest “Ponzi scheme” 

fraud in history, partial settlements totaling over $140 million have been negotiated for the class. While the action 

continues to be prosecuted against other defendants, the United States District Court for the Southern District of 

New York has already found our firm to have been “extremely competent” and of “great skill” in representing the 

class. 

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Judge Sarokin of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, after approving the $30 million 

settlement in In re First Fidelity Bancorporation Securities Litigation, a case in which were lead counsel, praised the 

“. . . outstanding competence and performance” of the plaintiffs’ counsel and expressed “admiration” for our work 

in the case.

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RECENT ACTIONS & SIGNIFICANT RECOVERIES

Currently, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP is counsel in many diverse nationwide class and individual 

actions and has obtained many of the largest and most significant recoveries in history. Some examples from our 

practice groups include: 

Securities Class Actions

In re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation -- 

(United States District Court for the Southern District 

of New York) The largest securities fraud class 

action in history. The court appointed BLB&G client 

the New York State Common Retirement Fund as 

Lead Plaintiff and the firm as Lead Counsel for the 

class in this securities fraud action arising from the 

financial fraud and subsequent bankruptcy at 

WorldCom, Inc. The complaints in this litigation 

allege that WorldCom and others disseminated false 

and misleading statements to the investing public 

regarding its earnings and financial condition in 

violation of the federal securities and other laws. As a 

result, investors suffered tens of billions of dollars in 

losses. The Complaint further alleges a nefarious 

relationship between Citigroup subsidiary Salomon 

Smith Barney and WorldCom, carried out primarily 

by Salomon employees involved in providing 

investment banking services to WorldCom (most 

notably, Jack Grubman, Salomon’s star 

telecommunications analyst), and by WorldCom’s 

former CEO and CFO, Bernard J. Ebbers and Scott 

Sullivan, respectively. On November 5, 2004, the 

Court granted final approval of the $2.575 billion 

cash settlement to settle all claims against the 

Citigroup defendants. In mid-March 2005, on the 

eve of trial, the 13 remaining “underwriter 

defendants,” including J.P. Morgan Chase, Deutsche 

Bank and Bank of America, agreed to pay settlements 

totaling nearly $3.5 billion to resolve all claims 

against them, bringing the total over $6 billion. 

Additionally, by March 21, 2005, the day before trial 

was scheduled to begin, all of the former WorldCom 

Director Defendants had agreed to pay over $60 

million to settle the claims against them. An 

unprecedented first for outside directors, $24.75 

million of that amount is coming out of the pockets 

of the individuals— 20% of their collective net 

worth. The case generated headlines across the 

country—and across the globe—and is changing the 

way Wall Street does business. In the words of 

Lynn Turner, a former SEC chief accountant, the 

settlement sent a message to directors “that their own 

personal wealth is at risk if they’re not diligent in 

their jobs.” After four weeks of trial, Arthur 

Andersen, WorldCom’s former auditor, settled for 

$65 million. In July 2005, settlements were reached 

with the former executives of WorldCom, bringing 

the total obtained for the Class to over $6.15 billion. 

In re Cendant Corporation Securities Litigation -- 

(United States District Court, District of New Jersey) 

Securities class action filed against Cendant 

Corporation, its officers and directors and Ernst & 

Young, its auditors. Cendant settled the action for 

$2.8 billion and Ernst & Young settled for $335 

million. The settlements are the third largest in 

history in a securities fraud action. Plaintiffs allege 

that the company disseminated materially false and 

misleading financial statements concerning CUC’s 

revenues, earnings and expenses for its 1997 fiscal 

year. As a result of company-wide accounting 

irregularities, Cendant has restated its financial 

results for its 1995, 1996 and 1997 fiscal years and 

all fiscal quarters therein. The firm represents Lead 

Plaintiffs CalPERS - the California Public 

Employees Retirement System, the New York 

State Common Retirement Fund and the New 

York City Pension Funds, the three largest public 

pension funds in America, in this action. 

Baptist Foundation of Arizona v. Arthur Andersen, 

LLP -- (Superior Court of the State of Arizona in and 

for the County of Maricopa) Firm client, the Baptist 

Foundation of Arizona Liquidation Trust (“BFA”) 

filed a lawsuit charging its former auditors, the “Big 

Five” accounting firm of Arthur Andersen LLP, with 

negligence in conducting its annual audits of BFA’s 

financial statements for a 15-year period beginning in 

1984, and culminating in BFA’s bankruptcy in late 

1999. Investors lost hundreds of millions of dollars as 

a result of BFA’s demise. The lawsuit alleges that 

Andersen ignored evidence of corruption and 

mismanagement by BFA’s former senior 

management team and failed to investigate suspicious 

transactions related to the mismanagement. These 

oversights of accounting work, which were improper 

under generally accepted accounting principles, 

allowed BFA’s undisclosed losses to escalate to 

hundreds of million of dollars, and ultimately 

resulted in its demise. On May 6, 2002, after one 

week of trial, Andersen agreed to pay $217 million to 

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settle the litigation. The court approved the 

settlement on September 13, 2002 and, ultimately, 

investors are expected to recover 70% of their losses. 

HealthSouth Corporation Bondholder Litigation -- 

(United States District Court for the Northern District 

of Alabama {Southern Division}) On March 19, 

2003, the investment community was stunned by the 

charges filed by the Securities and Exchange 

Commission against Birmingham, Alabama based 

HealthSouth Corporation and its former Chairman 

and Chief Executive Officer, Richard M. Scrushy, 

alleging a “massive accounting fraud.” Stephen M. 

Cutler, the SEC’s Director of Enforcement, said 

“HealthSouth’s fraud represents an appalling betrayal 

of investors.” According to the SEC, HealthSouth 

overstated its earnings by at least $1.4 billion since 

1999 at the direction of Mr. Scrushy. Subsequent 

revelations have disclosed that the overstatement 

actually exceeded over $2.4 billion, virtually wiping 

out all of HealthSouth’s reported profits for the last 

five years. A number of executives at HealthSouth, 

including its most senior accounting officers -- 

including every chief financial officer in 

HealthSouth’s history -- have pleaded guilty to 

criminal fraud charges. In the wake of these 

disclosures, numerous securities class action lawsuits 

have been filed against HealthSouth and certain 

individual defendants. On June 24, 2003, the 

Honorable Karon O. Bowdre of the District Court 

appointed the Retirement Systems of Alabama to 

serve as Lead Plaintiff on behalf of a class of all 

purchasers of HealthSouth bonds who suffered a loss 

as a result of the fraud. Judge Bowdre appointed 

BLB&G to serve as Co-Lead Counsel for the 

bondholder class. On February 22, 2006, the RSA 

announced that it and several other institutional 

plaintiffs leading investor lawsuits arising from the 

corporate scandal at HealthSouth Corporation had 

reached a class action settlement with HealthSouth, 

certain of the company’s former directors and 

officers, and certain of the company’s insurance 

carriers. The total consideration to be paid in the 

settlement is approximately $445 million. The action 

continues against the remaining defendants. 

In re McKesson HBOC, Inc. Securities Litigation -- 

(United States District Court, Northern District of 

California) Securities fraud litigation filed on behalf 

of purchasers of HBOC, McKesson and McKesson 

HBOC securities. On April 28, 1999, the Company 

issued the first of several press releases which 

announced that, due to its improper recognition of 

revenue from contingent software sales, it would 

have to restate its previously reported financial 

results. Immediately thereafter, McKesson HBOC 

common stock lost $9 billion in market value. On 

July 14, 1999, the Company announced that it was 

restating $327.8 million of revenue improperly 

recognized in the HBOC segment of its business 

during the fiscal years ending March 31, 1997, 1998 

and 1999. The complaint alleges that, during the 

Class Period, Defendants issued materially false and 

misleading statements to the investing public 

concerning HBOC’s and McKesson HBOC’s 

financial results, which had the effect of artificially 

inflating the prices of HBOC’s and the Company’s 

securities. On September 28, 2005, the court granted 

preliminary approval of a $960 million settlement 

which BLB&G and its client, Lead Plaintiff the New 

York State Common Retirement Fund, obtained 

from the company. On December 19, 2006, 

defendant Arthur Andersen agreed to pay $72.5 

million in cash to settle all claims asserted against it. 

This settlement brings the total recovery to more than 

$1 billion for distribution to eligible Settlement Class 

Members. The action continues against remaining 

defendant Bear Stearns. 

Ohio Public Employees Retirement System, et al. v. 

Freddie Mac, et al. -- (United States District Court 

for the Southern District of Ohio {Eastern Division}) 

Securities fraud class action filed on behalf of the 

Ohio Public Employees Retirement System and the 

State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio against 

the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation 

(“Freddie Mac”) and certain of its current and former 

officers. The Class includes all purchasers of Freddie 

Mac common stock during the period July 15, 1999 

through June 6, 2003. The Complaint alleges that 

Freddie Mac and certain current or former officers of 

the Company issued false and misleading statements 

in connection with Company’s previously reported 

financial results. Specifically, the complaint alleges 

that the defendants misrepresented the Company’s 

operations and financial results by having engaged in 

numerous improper transactions and accounting 

machinations that violated fundamental GAAP 

precepts in order to artificially smooth the 

Company’s earnings and to hide earnings volatility. 

On November 21, 2003, Freddie Mac restated its 

previously reported earnings in connection with these 

improprieties, ultimately restating more than $5.0 

billion in earnings. In October 2005, with document 

review nearly complete, Lead Plaintiffs began 

deposition discovery. On April 25, 2006, the parties 

reported to the Court that they had reached an 

agreement in principle to settle the case for $410 

million. On October 26, 2006, the Court granted 

final approval of the settlement. 

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In re Washington Public Power Supply System 

Litigation -- (United States District Court, District of 

Arizona) Commenced in 1983, the firm was 

appointed Chair of the Executive Committee 

responsible for litigating the action on behalf of the 

class. The action involved an estimated 200 million 

pages of documents produced in discovery; the 

depositions of 285 fact witnesses and 34 expert 

witnesses; more than 25,000 introduced exhibits; six 

published district court opinions; seven appeals or 

attempted appeals to the Ninth Circuit; and a threemonth jury trial, which resulted in a settlement of 

over $750 million – then the largest securities fraud 

settlement ever achieved. 

In re Lucent Technologies, Inc. Securities 

Litigation -- (United States District Court for the 

District of New Jersey) A securities fraud class action 

filed on behalf of purchasers of the common stock of 

Lucent Technologies, Inc. from October 26, 1999 

through December 20, 2000. In the action, BLB&G 

served as Co-Lead Counsel for the shareholders and 

Lead Plaintiffs, the Parnassus Fund and Teamsters 

Locals 175 & 505 D&P Pension Trust, and also 

represented the Anchorage Police and Fire 

Retirement System and the Louisiana School 

Employees’ Retirement System. Lead Plaintiffs’ 

complaint charged Lucent with making false and 

misleading statements to the investing public 

concerning its publicly reported financial results and 

failing to disclose the serious problems in its optical 

networking business. When the truth was disclosed, 

Lucent admitted that it had improperly recognized 

revenue of nearly $679 million in fiscal 2000. On 

September 23, 2003, the Court granted preliminary 

approval of the agreement to settle this litigation, a 

package which is currently valued at approximately 

$517 million composed of cash, stock and warrants. 

The appointment of BLB&G as Co-Lead Counsel is 

especially noteworthy as it marks the first time since 

the 1995 passage of the Private Securities Litigation 

Reform Act that a court has reopened the lead 

plaintiff or lead counsel selection process to account 

for changed circumstances, new issues and possible 

conflicts between new and old allegations. 

In re DaimlerChrysler Securities Litigation -- 

(United States District Court for the District of 

Delaware) A securities class action filed against 

defendants DaimlerChrysler AG, Daimler-Benz AG 

and two of DaimlerChrysler’s top executives, 

charging that Defendants acted in bad faith and 

misrepresented the nature of the 1998 merger 

between Daimler-Benz AG and the Chrysler 

Corporation. According to plaintiffs, defendants 

framed the transaction as a “merger of equals,” rather 

than an acquisition, in order to avoid paying an 

“acquisition premium.” Plaintiffs’ Complaint alleges 

that Defendants made this representation to Chrysler 

shareholders in the August 6, 1998 Registration 

Statement, Prospectus, and Proxy, leading 97% of 

Chrysler shareholders to approve the merger. 

BLB&G is court-appointed Co-Lead Counsel for CoLead Plaintiffs the Chicago Municipal Employees 

Annuity and Benefit Fund and the Chicago 

Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund. BLB&G 

and the Chicago funds filed the action on behalf of 

investors who exchanged their Chrysler Corporation 

shares for DaimlerChrysler shares in connection with 

the November 1998 merger, and on behalf of 

investors who purchased DaimlerChrysler shares in 

the open market from November 13, 1998 through 

November 17, 2000. On August 22, 2003, BLB&G, 

as Co-Lead Counsel for Plaintiffs, obtained an 

agreement in principle to settle the action for $300 

million. 

In re 3Com Securities Litigation -- (United States 

District Court, Northern District of California). Class 

action on behalf of purchasers of 3Com common 

stock, alleging that defendants knowingly and 

recklessly caused 3Com to issue materially false and 

misleading statements to the financial community 

regarding the company’s products, inventory and 

distribution. The complaint further alleges insider 

trading on these publicly disseminated materially 

false and misleading statements. The firm 

represented Lead Plaintiffs the Louisiana School 

Employees’ Retirement System and the Louisiana 

Municipal Police Employees’ Retirement System. 

This action resulted in the largest settlement - $259 

million - ever obtained from a corporate defendant in 

a securities fraud class action in the Ninth Circuit. 

In re Conseco, Inc. Securities Litigation -- (United 

States District Court for the Southern District of 

Indiana) Securities fraud class action. On March 31, 

2000, Conseco Inc. had announced that it would take 

a $350 million charge as a result of losses on its 

interest-only securities. Additionally, the company 

announced that it would also take a substantial charge 

on the future sale of Conseco Finance. Conseco 

Finance, formerly known as Greentree, is a whollyowned subsidiary of Conseco that was acquired in 

1998 for over $6 billion, and specializes in the 

consumer financing business. On April 14, 2000, 

Conseco restated its earnings for the first three 

quarters of 1999 and the second quarter of 1998. 

Various complaints, subsequently consolidated, 

allege violations of the Securities Act of 1933 and the 

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Exchange Act of 1934. The action has recently 

settled for $120 million. The firm was appointed 

Lead Counsel in this action on behalf of its clients,

the Anchorage Police & Fire Retirement System

and the State of Louisiana Firefighters’ 

Retirement System, Lead Plaintiffs in the case. 

In re Bennett Funding Group Securities Litigation 

-- (United States District Court, Southern District of 

New York). Investor class action involving the sale 

of $570 million in fraudulent investments, described 

as the largest “Ponzi” scheme in United States 

history. The action was prosecuted against over fifty 

defendants including Bennett’s former auditors, 

insurers and broker-dealers who sold Bennett 

investment. The class includes all purchasers of 

Bennett securities from March 29, 1992 through 

March, 29, 1996. The action settled with multiple 

defendants for over $165 million. 

In re Legato Systems, Inc. Securities Litigation -- 

(United States District Court for the Northern District 

of California {San Jose}) This securities fraud class 

action alleges that Legato Systems, Inc. and certain 

of its officers overstated the Company’s fiscal 1999 

financial results. The resultant need for a restatement 

of the company’s financial reports caused by 

improper accounting practices led to a loss in the 

value of the stock and the plaintiff class of 

shareholders seek recovery of said losses. In April 

2002, Legato agreed to settle the case for $85 million 

and the Court granted final approval of the settlement 

on July 31, 2002. The firm represents the Policemen 

and Firemen Retirement System of the City of 

Detroit as Lead Plaintiff in the action.

Corporate Governance and Shareholders’ Rights

McCall v. Scott -- (United States District Court, 

Middle District of Tennessee). A derivative action 

filed on behalf of Columbia/HCA Healthcare 

Corporation -- now “HCA” -- against certain former 

senior executives of HCA and current and former 

members of the Board of Directors seeking to hold 

them responsible for directing or enabling HCA to 

commit the largest healthcare fraud in history, 

resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars of loss to 

HCA. The firm represents the New York State 

Common Retirement Fund as Lead Plaintiff, as 

well as the California Public Employees’ 

Retirement System (“CalPERS”), the New York 

City Pension Funds, the New York State Teachers’ 

Retirement System and the Los Angeles County 

Employees’ Retirement Association (“LACERA”) 

in this action. Although the district court initially 

dismissed the action, the United States Court of 

Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed that dismissal 

and upheld the complaint in substantial part, and 

remanded the case back to the district court. On 

February 4, 2003, the Common Retirement Fund, 

announced that the parties had agreed in principle to 

settle the action, subject to approval of the district 

court. As part of the settlement, HCA will adopt a 

corporate governance plan that goes well beyond the 

requirements both of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and of 

the rules that the New York Stock Exchange has 

proposed to the SEC, and also enhances the corporate 

governance structure presently in place at HCA. 

HCA also will receive $14 million. Under the 

sweeping governance plan, the HCA Board of 

Directors will be substantially independent, and will 

have increased power and responsibility to oversee 

fair and accurate financial reporting. In granting final 

approval of the settlement on June 3, 2003, the 

Honorable Senior Judge Thomas A. Higgins of the 

District Court said that the settlement “confers an 

exceptional benefit upon the company and the 

shareholders by way of the corporate governance 

plan.” 

Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of 

Integrated Health Services, Inc. v. Elkins, et al. -- 

(Delaware Chancery Court) The Official Committee 

of Unsecured Creditors (the “Committee”) of 

Integrated Health Services (“HIS”), filed a complaint 

against the current and former officers and directors 

of IHS, a health care provider which declared 

bankruptcy in January 2000. The Committee, on 

behalf of the Debtors Bankruptcy Estates, sought 

damages for breaches of fiduciary duties and waste of 

corporate assets in proposing, negotiating, approving 

and/or ratifying excessive and unconscionable 

compensation arrangements for Robert N. Elkins, the 

Company’s former Chairman and Chief Executive 

Officer, and for other executive officers of the 

Company. BLB&G is a special litigation counsel to 

the committee in this action. The Delaware Chancery 

Court sustained most of Plaintiff’s fiduciary duty 

claims against the defendants, finding that the 

complaint sufficiently pleaded that the defendants 

“consciously and intentionally disregarded their 

responsibilities.” The Court also observed that 

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Delaware law sets a very high bar for proving 

violation of fiduciary duties in the context of 

executive compensation. Resulting in a multi-million 

dollar settlement, the Integrated Health Services 

litigation was one of the few executive compensation 

cases successfully litigated in Delaware. 

 

Employment Discrimination and Civil Rights 

Roberts v. Texaco, Inc. -- (United States District 

Court for the Southern District of New York) Six 

highly qualified African-American employees filed a 

class action complaint against Texaco Inc. alleging 

that the Company failed to promote AfricanAmerican employees to upper level jobs and failed to 

compensate them fairly in relation to Caucasian 

employees in similar positions. Two years of 

intensive investigation on the part of the lawyers of 

Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, 

including retaining the services of high level expert 

statistical analysts, revealed that African-Americans 

were significantly under-represented in high level 

management jobs and Caucasian employees were 

promoted more frequently and at far higher rates for 

comparable positions within the Company. Settled 

for over $170 million. Texaco also agreed to a Task 

Force to monitor its diversity programs for five years. 

The settlement has been described as the most 

significant race discrimination settlement in history. 

GMAC/NMAC/Ford/Toyota/Chrysler Consumer 

Finance Discrimination Litigation The cases 

involve allegations that the lending practices of 

General Motors Acceptance Corporation, Nissan 

Motor Acceptance Corporation, Ford Motor Credit, 

Toyota Motor Credit and Chrysler Financial cause 

black and Hispanic car buyers to pay millions of 

dollars more for car loans than similarly situated 

white buyers. At issue is a discriminatory kickback 

system under which minorities typically pay about 

50% more in dealer mark-up which is shared by auto 

dealers with the defendants. On February 24, 2003, 

the Honorable Todd J. Campbell of the States District 

Court for the Middle District of Tennessee granted 

preliminary approval of the settlement of the class 

action pending against Nissan Motor Acceptance 

Corporation (“NMAC”). Under the terms of the 

settlement, NMAC will offer pre-approved loans to 

hundreds of thousands of current and potential black 

and Hispanic NMAC customers, and will limit how 

much it raises the interest charged to car buyers 

above the company’s minimum acceptable rate. The 

company will also contribute $1 million to America 

Saves, to develop a car financing literacy program 

targeted toward minority consumers. The settlement 

also provides for the payment of $5,000 to $20,000 to 

the 10 people named in the class-action lawsuit. 

Other car buyers wishing to recover damages will 

still be able to sue NMAC separately. BLB&G 

continues to prosecute the actions against the other 

auto lenders. 

Alexander v. Pennzoil Company -- (United States 

District Court, Southern District of Texas) A class 

action on behalf of all salaried African-American 

employees at Pennzoil alleging race discrimination in 

the Company’s promotion, compensation and other 

job related practices. The action settled for $6.75 

million. 

Butcher v. Gerber Products Company -- (United 

States District Court, Southern District of New York) 

Class action asserting violations of the Age 

Discrimination in Employment Act arising out of the 

mass discharging of approximately 460 Gerber sales 

people, the vast majority of whom were long-term 

Gerber employees aged 40 and older. Settlement 

terms are confidential. 

Consumer Class Actions

E*Trade Group, Inc. -- (Superior Court of 

California, Santa Clara County) A class action filed 

on behalf of all individuals who have or had accounts 

with E*Trade from September 1996 to the present. 

The complaint alleges that E*Trade’s representations 

to customers regarding the manner in which their 

accounts would be handled were false and 

misleading; that the electronic trading systems were 

inadequate to meet customer demands; and that, as a 

result of these misrepresentations, customers suffered 

significant losses and have been deprived of the 

benefits which E*Trade had represented they would 

receive. 

General Motors Corporation -- (Superior Court of 

New Jersey Law Division, Bergen County) A class 

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action consisting of all persons who owned W-body 

cars with defective rear disc brake caliper pins which 

tended to corrode, creating both a safety hazard and 

premature wearing of the front and rear disc brakes, 

causing extensive economic damage. BLB&G is colead counsel in this case where a proposed settlement 

would provide $19.5 million to the class for 

reimbursement of brake repairs. 

Rent-A-Center -- (Supreme Court of the State of 

New York, Bronx County) Deceptive sales and 

marketing in “rent-to-own” transactions. In this case, 

BLB&G recently obtained a landmark ruling 

upholding a rental-purchasers’ right to bring suit. 

Empire Blue Cross -- (United States District Court, 

Southern District of New York) Overcharging health 

care subscribers. BLB&G was lead counsel in a 

recently approved $6.6 million settlement that 

represented 130% of the class’ damages and offered 

all the overcharged subscribers 100 cents on the 

dollar repayment. 

DoubleClick -- ((United States District Court, 

Southern District of New York). Internet Privacy. A 

class action on behalf of Internet users who have had 

personal information surreptitiously intercepted and 

sent to a major Internet advertising agency. In the 

settlement agreement reached in this action, 

DoubleClick commits to a series of industry-leading 

privacy protections for online consumers while 

continuing to offer its full range of products and 

services. This is likely the largest class action there 

has ever been - virtually every, if not every, Internet 

user in the United States. 

Toxic/Mass Torts

Fen/Phen Litigation (“Diet Drug” Litigation) -- -- (Class action lawsuits filed in 10 jurisdictions including New 

York, New Jersey, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Florida, Kentucky, Indiana, Arizona, Oregon and Arkansas) The firm 

played a prominent role in the nationwide “diet drug” or “fen-phen” litigation against American Home Products for 

the Company’s sale and marketing of Redux and Pondimin. The suits allege that a number of pharmaceutical 

companies produced these drugs which, when used in combination, can lead to life-threatening pulmonary 

hypertension and heart valve thickening. The complaint alleges that these manufacturers knew of or should have 

known of the serious health risks created by the drugs, should have warned users of these risks, knew that the 

fen/phen combination was not approved by the FDA, had not been adequately studied, and yet was being routinely 

prescribed by physicians. This litigation led to one of the largest class action settlements in history, the multi-billion 

dollar Nationwide Class Action Settlement with American Home Products approved by the United States District 

Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In this litigation, BLB&G was involved in lawsuits filed in the 10 

jurisdictions and was designated Class Counsel in the Consolidated New York and New Jersey state court 

litigations. Additionally, the firm was Co-Liaison Counsel in the New York litigations and served as the State Court 

Certified Class Counsel for the New York Certified Class to the Nationwide Settlement. 

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CLIENTS AND FEES

Most of the firm’s clients are referred by other clients, law firms and lawyers, bankers, investors and accountants. A 

considerable number of clients have been referred to the firm by former adversaries. We have always maintained a 

high level of independence and discretion in the cases we decide to prosecute. As a result, the level of personal 

satisfaction and commitment to our work is high. 

As stated, our client roster includes many large and well known financial and lending institutions and pension funds, 

as well as privately held corporate entities which are attracted to our firm because of our reputation, particular 

expertise and fee structure. 

We are firm believers in the contingency fee as a socially useful, productive and satisfying basis of compensation for 

legal services, particularly in litigation. Wherever appropriate, even with our corporate clients, we will encourage a 

retention where our fee is at least partially contingent on the outcome of the litigation. This way, it is not the 

number of hours worked that will determine our fee but, rather, the result achieved for our client. 

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IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST

Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP is guided by two principles: excellence in legal work and a belief that 

the law should serve a socially useful and dynamic purpose. Attorneys at the firm are active in academic, 

community and pro bono activities, as well as participating as speakers and contributors to professional 

organizations. In addition, the firm endows a public interest law fellowship and sponsors an academic scholarship at 

Columbia Law School. 

The Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann Public Interest Law Fellowship, Columbia Law School. 

BLB&G is committed to fighting discrimination and effecting positive social change. In support of this 

commitment, the firm donated funds to Columbia Law School to create the Bernstein Litowitz Berger & 

Grossmann Public Interest Law Fellowship. This newly endowed fund at Columbia Law School will 

provide Fellows with 100% of the funding needed to make payments on their law school tuition loans so 

long as such graduates remain in the public interest law field. The Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann 

Fellows will be able to leave law school free of any law school debt if they make a long term commitment 

to public interest law. 

Firm sponsorship of inMotion, New York, NY. BLB&G is a sponsor of inMotion, a non-profit 

organization in New York City dedicated to providing pro bono legal representation to indigent 

women, principally battered women, in connection with the myriad legal problems they face. The 

organization trains and supports the efforts of New York lawyers, typically associates at law firms 

or in-house counsel, who provide pro bono counsel to these women. Several members and 

associates of the firm volunteer their time and energies to help women who need divorces from 

abusive spouses, or representation on legal issues such as child support, custody and visitation. To 

read more about inMotion and the remarkable services it provides, visit the organization’s website 

at www.inmotiononline.org. 

The Paul M. Bernstein Memorial Scholarship, Columbia Law School. Paul M. Bernstein was the 

founding senior partner of the firm. Mr. Bernstein led a distinguished career as a lawyer and teacher and 

was deeply committed to the professional and personal development of young lawyers. The Paul M. 

Bernstein Memorial Scholarship Fund is a gift of the firm of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, 

and the family and friends of Paul M. Bernstein. Established in 1990, the scholarship is awarded annually 

to one or more second-year students selected for their academic excellence in their first year, professional 

responsibility, financial need and contributions to fellow students and the community. 

Firm sponsorship of City Year New York, New York, NY. BLB&G is also an active supporter of City 

Year New York, a division of AmeriCorps. The program was founded in 1988 as a means of encouraging 

young people to devote time to public service and unites a diverse group of volunteers for a demanding 

year of full-time community service, leadership development and civic engagement. Through their service, 

corps members experience a rite of passage that can inspire a lifetime of citizenship and build a stronger 

democracy. 

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THE MEMBERS OF THE FIRM 

 MAX W. BERGER, a founding partner of the firm, supervises the firm’s litigation practice and prosecutes 

class and individual actions on behalf of the firm’s clients. Mr. Berger has litigated many of the firm’s most high 

profile and significant cases. Together, with other partners at the firm, he has obtained five of the largest securities 

fraud recoveries in history—the $6.15 billion settlement of In re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation, the $3.2 

billion settlement of In re Cendant Corporation Securities Litigation, the $1.3 billion recovery in In re Nortel 

Networks Corporation Securities Litigation, the $1.03 billion partial settlement of In re McKesson HBOC, Inc. 

Securities Litigation, and the over $600 million investor recovery in In re Lucent Technologies, Inc. Securities 

Litigation. 

 Mr. Berger’s role in the WorldCom case received extensive media attention and has been the subject of 

feature articles in numerous major publications including BusinessWeek and The American Lawyer. For their 

outstanding efforts on behalf of the WorldCom Class, The National Law Journal profiled Mr. Berger and his partner 

Sean Coffey (two of only eleven attorneys selected nationwide) in its special June 2005 “Winning Attorneys” 

section. Additionally, Mr. Berger was featured in the July 2006 New York Times article, “A Class-Action Shuffle,” 

which assessed the evolving landscape of the securities litigation arena. 

 Mr. Berger also serves the academic community in numerous capacities as a member of the Dean’s Council 

to Columbia Law School, and as a member of the Board of Trustees of Baruch College. In May 2006, he was 

presented with the “Distinguished Alumnus Award” for his many and varied contributions to Baruch College. Mr. 

Berger has also been selected as an Advisor to the American Law Institute, Restatement Third of Torts, and he 

currently serves on the Advisory Board of Columbia Law School’s Center on Corporate Governance. Additionally, 

Mr. Berger has taught Profession of Law, an ethics course at Columbia. 

 Mr. Berger is a past chairman of the Commercial Litigation Section of the Association of Trial Lawyers of 

America (now known as the American Association for Justice) and lectures for numerous professional 

organizations. In 1997, Mr. Berger was honored for his outstanding contribution to the public interest by Trial 

Lawyers For Public Justice, where he was a “Trial Lawyer of the Year” Finalist for his work in Roberts, et al. v. 

Texaco, the celebrated race discrimination case, on behalf of Texaco’s African-American employees. 

 Among numerous charitable and volunteer works, Mr. Berger is an active supporter of City Year New 

York, a division of AmeriCorps, dedicated to encouraging young people to devote time to public service. In July 

2005, he was named City Year New York’s “Idealist of the Year,” for his long-time service and work in the 

community. He and his wife, Dale, have also established the Dale and Max Berger Public Interest Law Fellowship 

at Columbia Law School and the Max W. Berger Pre-Law Program at Baruch College. 

 Mr. Berger received an Accounting degree from the Baruch School of the City College of New York in 

1968. At Baruch, he was President of the student body and won numerous awards. 

 Mr. Berger received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1971, where he was an editor of the Columbia 

Survey of Human Rights Law. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1972, New York. 1973, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New 

York. 1973, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. 1975, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York. 1992, 

U.S. District Court, District of Arizona. 1999, U.S. Supreme Court. 

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 EDWARD A. GROSSMANN, one of the firm’s founding partners, graduated cum laude from the 

University of Wisconsin in 1970 and the University of Michigan School of Law in 1973. 

 Mr. Grossmann served as lead counsel in the Prudential-Bache Energy Income Limited Partnership and the 

In re Bennett Funding Group class actions, well-publicized cases which have each settled for in excess of $120 

million. 

 He is a past chairman of the Class and Derivative Action Trials Subcommittee of the Litigation Section of 

the American Bar Association and a past chairman of the Commercial Litigation Section of the Association of Trial 

Lawyers of America and has lectured for that organization. Mr. Grossmann is a member of the Committee of 

Visitors of the University of Michigan Law School and a member of the Committee of Visitors of the University of 

Wisconsin Center for Jewish Studies. He is also past President of the JCC on the Palisades and is a past trustee of 

the UJA Federation of Northern New Jersey. 

 

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 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1974, New York. 1974, U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern 

Districts of New York. 1975, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. 1990, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. 

1991, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, 

Eleventh Circuit. 

  

 JOHN P. (“SEAN”) COFFEY is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy (“U.S.N.A.”), receiving 

a B.S. in Ocean Engineering, with merit, in 1978. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown 

University Law Center in 1987, where he was Articles Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal, a member of the 

Order of the Coif, and recipient of the Charles A. Keigwin Award for academic excellence. 

 Before graduating from law school, Mr. Coffey was a Commissioned Officer in the United States Navy, 

where he served as a P-3C Orion patrol plane mission commander, an Intern in the Organization for the Joint Chiefs 

of Staff, and the personal military aide to Vice President George H.W. Bush. After leaving active duty to pursue his 

legal career, Mr. Coffey continued to serve in the Navy Reserve, where he commanded a P-3C squadron and the 

Reserve component of the Enterprise carrier battle group staff, and served for four years as a Captain in the Office 

of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. In August 2004, he retired from the Navy after thirty years of 

uniformed service. 

 Mr. Coffey served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1991 

to 1995, where he conducted numerous complex fraud investigations and tried many cases to verdict. 

 Since joining BLB&G in 1998, Mr. Coffey has served as the lead trial attorney in two of the most notable 

fraud cases ever to go to trial. In April 2005, Mr. Coffey and his BLB&G team completed their prosecution of the 

WorldCom securities class action—a prosecution that yielded a record-breaking recovery for defrauded investors of 

over $6.15 billion—by taking the lone non-settling defendant, WorldCom’s former auditor Arthur Andersen LLP, to 

trial. Mr. Coffey’s role in the WorldCom prosecution was featured in a December 2004 article in The American 

Lawyer entitled “Taking Citi To School“ and a November 2005 article in The American Lawyer entitled “Breaking 

The Banks.” 

 In 2002, in another trial against Andersen, this time arising out of the collapse of the Baptist Foundation of 

Arizona, BFA Liquidation Trust v. Arthur Andersen LLP, the largest non-profit bankruptcy in U.S. history, Mr. 

Coffey obtained a $217 million settlement, one of the largest amounts ever paid by an accounting firm. 

 Mr. Coffey currently serves as court-appointed Lead Counsel representing investors in the Omnicom, 

HealthSouth, Merck, Refco, Delphi and Converium litigations, and copyright holders in the Premier League v. 

YouTube class action. 

 Mr. Coffey has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, American Lawyer, and BusinessWeek, and was 

featured on “The Wall Street Fix” on PBS’ Frontline. Mr. Coffey and senior BLB&G partner Max Berger were 

named two of the 2005 “Winning Attorneys of the Year” by the National Law Journal, and the September 2005 

issue of Bloomberg Markets profiled Mr. Coffey as “Wall Street’s New Nemesis.” 

 Prior to joining BLB&G, Mr. Coffey was a litigation partner with Latham & Watkins and an Adjunct 

Professor of Law at Fordham University. He serves as Vice President of the U.S.N.A. Class of 1978 and is a 

member of the Board of Directors of The Community Fund of Bronxville, Eastchester, Tuckahoe, Inc., in 

Westchester County, N.Y. He is also a member of the Federal Bar Council, the American Bar Association, the 

Association of the Bar of the City of New York (including its newly-formed Securities Litigation Committee), the 

American Association for Justice, and the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Foundation. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1988, New York. 1989, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New 

York. 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. 1995, U.S. District Court, Western District of New York. 1998, 

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York. 1999, New Jersey. 2007, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. 

** ** 

 DARNLEY D. STEWART graduated from Princeton University in 1984 and Northeastern University 

School of Law in 1990. 

 Ms. Stewart served as law clerk to the Hon. R. Ammi Cutter and the Hon. Mel L. Greenberg of the 

Massachusetts Court of Appeals from 1990-1991. 

Ms. Stewart is the partner principally responsible for the firm’s employment discrimination and employee 

rights practice group. She has acted as co-lead counsel in many of the firm’s high profile discrimination cases, 

including Rapier, et al. v. Ford Motor Company, Inc., which resulted in one of the largest sexual harassment class 

action settlements in history. 

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 More recently, Ms. Stewart has achieved major victories on behalf of minority car buyers with the 

landmark settlements of class action consumer discrimination lawsuits against General Motors Acceptance 

Corporation, (“GMAC”), Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation, (“NMAC”), and DaimlerChrysler. At issue in 

these actions is a discriminatory credit pricing system under which minorities typically pay as much as 50% more in 

dealer “mark-up.” She continues to prosecute several similar class actions against Ford Motor Credit Company, 

Toyota Motor Credit Corporation and Chrysler Financial Company. 

 For her outstanding efforts on behalf of the public interest in GMAC, which resulted in historic reforms, 

including dealer mark-up caps and special financing rates for minority car buyers, Ms. Stewart was honored as a 

“Trial Lawyer Of The Year” finalist in May 2004, by Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, a national public interest law 

firm dedicated to using trial lawyers’ skills and resources to create a more just society. 

 Ms. Stewart is a member of the Class and Collective Action Committee of the National Employment 

Lawyers Association and is Vice-President of the Executive Board of the New York affiliate (NELA/NY) of that 

organization. She is a member of the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Committee of the New York State Bar 

Association, and serves as Plaintiffs’ Co-Chair of the Class Action Subcommittee of the American Bar 

Association’s Employment Rights and Responsibilities Committee and Programs Co-Chair of the Technology 

Committee of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section. Ms. Stewart regularly lectures and 

writes on employment class action litigation. 

ADMISSIONS: Admitted to the bar, 1990, Massachusetts. 1993, New York. 1993, U.S. District Court, 

Southern District of New York. 1998, U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan. 2000, U.S. Court of 

Appeals, Sixth Circuit. 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. 2001, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. 

  

STEVEN B. SINGER joined BLB&G is 1994. He has been responsible for prosecuting a number of the 

largest securities fraud cases in history. Mr. Singer was one of the lead trial lawyers on the WorldCom Securities 

Litigation, which culminated in a four-week trial against WorldCom’s auditors, and resulted in the historic recovery 

of over $6.15 billion from the professionals associated with the WorldCom debacle—the second largest recovery in 

history. He has also been responsible for numerous additional high-profile litigations, including In re Lucent 

Technologies Securities Litigation, which resulted in the fifth largest settlement of all time; In re 3Com Securities 

Litigation, the largest securities fraud class action recovery in Ninth Circuit history; and a multi-million dollar 

private action arising out of the demise of Lernout & Hauspie. 

 Mr. Singer has also distinguished himself in the Firm’s other practice areas, securing large recoveries for 

victims of discrimination and consumer fraud. In 1997, the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice named Mr. Singer as a 

finalist for “Trial Lawyer of the Year” for his role in the prosecution of the celebrated race discrimination litigation, 

Roberts v. Texaco, which resulted in the largest discrimination settlement in history. 

 Mr. Singer frequently lectures at the Firm’s Institutional Investor Forum and is an active member of the 

New York State and American Bar Associations. He is also a speaker at various continuing legal education 

programs offered by the Practicing Law Institute (“PLI”). 

 Mr. Singer received his B.A., cum laude, from Duke University in 1988 and his J.D. from Northwestern 

University School of Law in 1991. 

 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to the bar, 1992, New York. 1992, U.S. District Courts, Eastern and Southern 

Districts of New York. 

** ** 

 CHAD JOHNSON is involved in all areas of the firm’s litigation practice, with particular emphasis on 

prosecuting securities fraud actions, complex commercial litigation, patent litigation, and trial practice. 

 Among other matters, Mr. Johnson was one of the partners who prosecuted the In re WorldCom, Inc. 

Securities Litigation—resulting in a recovery for investors of over $6.15 billion after five weeks of trial—one of the 

largest securities fraud recovery in history. Mr. Johnson also oversaw the firm’s prosecution of In re Williams 

Securities Litigation in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma. The Williams case 

required a massive undertaking by BLB&G, including the need to take and defend 170 depositions and to review 

and analyze over 18 million pages of documents. The case proceeded through class certification discovery, fact 

discovery, expert discovery, summary judgment, and trial preparation. Shortly before trial, BLB&G and the Lead 

Plaintiffs were able to obtain a total recovery from the defendants of $311 million. This is among the largest 

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recoveries ever achieved in a securities class action in which the corporate defendant did not restate its financial 

results and where the SEC did not obtain any recovery for investors. Mr. Johnson was also one of the partners 

responsible for prosecuting the OM Group Securities Litigation, which resulted in a $92.4 million recovery for 

investors. 

 Mr. Johnson is responsible for overseeing the firm’s prosecution of the federal derivative action against the 

individuals involved in the options backdating scandal at UnitedHealth Group, Inc. That case is pending in the 

United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. In connection with that lawsuit, BLB&G represents 

several public pension funds, all of whom are Court-appointed Lead Plaintiffs in the case. Since the initiation of that 

lawsuit, the company has effectively acknowledged that it engaged in options backdating—and the company’s 

Chairman and CEO (and a recipient of hundreds of millions of dollars of apparently backdated stock options), 

William McGuire, has been forced out of the company because of his involvement in the scandal. 

 Mr. Johnson is overseeing the firm’s prosecution (with co-counsel) of numerous patent litigations now 

pending against major electronics manufacturers including Nikon, Samsung, LG Phillips, and others. These patent 

litigations relate to the technology used to manufacture flat panel displays, including LCD televisions, as well as 

well as semi-conductor chips. The technology at issue was developed by a New York-based manufacturing 

company, Anvik Corporation, which holds the patents at issue. As alleged in the complaints, the technology was 

subsequently misappropriated by certain companies based overseas. The cases allege that the defendants are 

manufacturing products sold into the United States using Anvik’s patented technology without Anvik’s permission. 

The revenues defendants are generating using Anvik’s patented technology, as alleged in the complaints, is in the 

hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars per year. These cases are all pending in the United States District 

Court for the Southern District of New York. 

 Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Johnson was a partner with Latham & Watkins, where he practiced for ten 

years. While with Latham & Watkins, he represented investment banks, accounting firms, law firms, boards of 

directors, and both publicly and privately held companies. Mr. Johnson has extensive experience in the areas of 

securities and professional liability litigation, complex commercial litigation, patent litigation, and international 

arbitration. He has handled a variety of matters before federal and state courts, as well as arbitration tribunals both in 

the United States and abroad, including the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International 

Arbitration, the Netherlands Arbitration Institute, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the American Arbitration 

Association, and JAMS/Endispute. 

 Mr. Johnson graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laude, where he was president of the Harvard Law 

School Forum. He also graduated from the University of Michigan, with high distinction, where he was an Angell 

scholar. 

ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1993, Illinois and District of Columbia. 1998, New York. 

  

 GERALD H. SILK’s practice focuses on representing public pension funds and other institutional 

investors on matters involving federal and state securities laws, accountants’ liability and the fiduciary duties of 

corporate officials. He also advises creditors on their rights with respect to pursuing affirmative claims against 

officers and directors, as well as professionals both inside and outside the bankruptcy context. Additionally, Mr. Silk 

is one of the partners who oversee the firm’s new matter department, in which he, along with a group of financial 

analysts and investigators, counsels clients on potential legal claims. He was the subject of “Picking Winning 

Securities Cases,” a feature article in the June 2005 issue of Bloomberg Markets magazine, which detailed his work 

for the firm in this capacity. He was also named one of America’s top 500 “rising stars“ in the legal profession and 

one of 3000 Leading Plaintiffs’ Lawyers in America by Lawdragon magazine. Additionally, Mr. Silk was selected 

for inclusion in the list of 2006 New York Super Lawyers.

 Most recently, Mr. Silk is one of the partners at the firm responsible for advising institutional shareholder 

clients on legal matters arising out of the options backdating scandal. He is currently representing several 

institutional investors in the options backdating case, In re UnitedHealth Group, Inc. Shareholder Derivative 

Litigation, pending in the District of Minnesota. Mr. Silk has appeared frequently in the news as a commentator on 

option backdating issues, including on CNBC’s Morning Call, The Financial Times, The National Law Journal and 

the New York Law Journal. 

 He is also currently representing shareholders in New York State Supreme Court against certain officers 

and directors of Cablevision Systems Corporation alleging breaches of fiduciary duties by the controlling 

shareholders in attempting to take the company private for an unfair price. Mr. Silk was one of the principal 

attorneys responsible for prosecuting the In re Independent Energy Holdings Securities Litigation, a case against the 

officers and directors of Independent Energy as well as several investment banking firms which underwrote a $200 

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million secondary offering of ADRs by the U.K.-based Independent Energy. The Independent Energy litigation was 

resolved for $48 million. Mr. Silk has also prosecuted and successfully resolved several other securities class 

actions, which resulted in substantial cash recoveries for investors, including In re Sykes Enterprises, Inc. Securities 

Litigation in the Middle District of Florida, and In re OM Group, Inc. Securities Litigation in the Northern District 

of Ohio. He was also a member of the litigation team responsible for the successful prosecution of In re Cendant 

Corporation Securities Litigation in the District of New Jersey, which was resolved for $3.2 billion. 

 Mr. Silk received a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania in 

1991, and a J.D., cum laude, from Brooklyn Law School in 1995. In 1995-96, Mr. Silk served as a law clerk to the 

Hon. Steven M. Gold, U.S.M.J., in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Prior to 

joining the firm in 1998, Mr. Silk was an associate in the Business and Securities Litigation Department at Weil, 

Gotshal & Manges LLP, where he was primarily involved in defending securities cases and counseling boards of 

directors on corporate governance matters. 

 Mr. Silk lectures to institutional investors at conferences throughout the country, and has written or 

substantially contributed to several articles on developments in securities and corporate law, including “The 

Compensation Game,” Lawdragon, Fall 2006; “Institutional Investors as Lead Plaintiffs: Is There A New And 

Changing Landscape?“, 75 St. John’s Law Review 31 (Winter 2001); “The Duty To Supervise, Poser, BrokerDealer Law and Regulation”, 3rd Ed. 2000, Chapter 15; “Derivative Litigation In New York after Marx v. Akers”, 

New York Business Law Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall 1997). 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1996, New York. 1997, U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern 

Districts of New York. 

** ** 

 BLAIR A. NICHOLAS has successfully represented numerous public pension funds and other 

institutional investors in high-profile actions involving federal and state securities laws, accountants’ liability, and 

corporate governance matters. In January 2007, The American Lawyer named him one of its “Fab Fifty Young 

Litigators”—one of the top 50 litigators in the country, 45 and under, who have “made their marks already and 

whom [they] expect to see leading the field for years to come.” 

 Mr. Nicholas has extensive trial experience, including having recently served as one of the lead trial 

counsel in In re Clarent Corporation Securities Litigation, a securities fraud class action prosecuted before the 

Federal District Court for the Northern District of California. After a four week jury trial, in which Mr. Nicholas 

delivered the closing argument, the jury returned a securities fraud verdict in favor of investors against the former 

Chief Executive Officer of Clarent. 

 Mr. Nicholas was one of the principal attorneys responsible for prosecuting the In re Williams Securities 

Litigation, a securities fraud class action that recently settled shortly before trial for $311 million. Mr. Nicholas has 

also prosecuted and successfully resolved a number of high-profile securities class actions, including In re Informix 

Securities Litigation, resolved for $142 million; In re Gemstar Securities Litigation, resolved for $92.5 million; In re 

Legato Systems Securities Litigation, resolved for $85 million; In re Network Associates Securities Litigation, 

resolved for $70 million; and In re Finova Group Securities Litigation, resolved for $42 million. 

 Mr. Nicholas has lectured to institutional investors and has written articles relating the application of the 

federal and state securities laws, including the article entitled “Reforming the Reform Act and Restoring Investor 

Confidence in the Securities Markets,” which was published in the Securities Reform Act Litigation Reporter (Vol. 

13, No. 4, July 2002). 

 Mr. Nicholas received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and received 

his J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law, where he served as Lead Articles Editor of the San Diego 

Law Review. He currently serves as Vice President on the Executive Committee of the San Diego Chapter of the 

Federal Bar Association. Mr. Nicholas is also an active member of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers of San 

Diego, Litigation Section of the State Bar of California, and the San Diego County Bar Association. He practices in 

the firm’s California office. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1995, California. 1996, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. 1996, U.S. District 

Courts for the Southern, Central and Northern Districts of California. 1996, U.S. District Court for the District of 

Arizona (1996). 

  

 DAVID R. STICKNEY practices in the firm’s California office, where he focuses on complex litigation in 

state and federal courts nationwide, at both the trial court and appellate levels. Mr. Stickney has prosecuted a 

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number of the firm’s prominent cases, including, among others, In re McKesson Securities Litigation. In that case, 

the recovery to date has reached $1.023 billion—the largest such recovery ever for any securities class action within 

the Ninth Circuit. Mr. Stickney has prosecuted dozens of class and individual actions and has successfully resolved 

a number of the firm’s prominent cases, including Wyatt v. El Paso Corp., which recently settled for $285 million; 

BFA Liquidation Trust v. Arthur Andersen LLP, which settled during trial for $217 million; and In re EMAC 

Securities Litigation, which settled on undisclosed terms before trial. 

 During 1996-1997, Mr. Stickney served as law clerk to the Honorable Bailey Brown of the United States 

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Mr. Stickney received his J.D. from The University of Cincinnati College of 

Law in 1996, where he was a Jacob B. Cox Scholar and Lead Articles Editor of The University of Cincinnati Law 

Review. Mr. Stickney received his B.A. from the University of California at Davis in 1993. 

 Mr. Stickney lectures on securities litigation and shareholder matters, including for seminars and programs 

sponsored by the Practicing Law Institute and Glasser Legalworks. He has also authored and co-authored several 

articles concerning securities litigation and class actions. His professional affiliations include the Association of 

Business Trial Lawyers. 

ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1997, California. 1997, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Ninth 

Circuits. 1997, U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Central Districts of California. 

** ** 

 SALVATORE J. GRAZIANO, an experienced trial attorney, has taken a leading role in a number of 

major securities fraud class actions including cases against: (i) Raytheon Company and PricewaterhouseCoopers 

LLP, total recoveries of $460 million; (ii) MicroStrategy, Inc. and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, total recoveries 

valued in excess of $150 million; (iii) i2 Technologies, Inc. and Arthur Andersen LLP, total recovery of $87.75 

million; and (iv) Aetna, Inc., total recovery of $82.5 million. 

 Mr. Graziano has litigated cases resulting in favorable decisions for securities investors nationwide, 

including the seminal Second Circuit decision of Novak v. Kasaks, 216 F.3d 300 (2d Cir. 2000), interpreting the 

pleading standards of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. 

 Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Graziano served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan 

District Attorney’s Office. He has over 10 years of securities fraud civil litigation experience. Mr. Graziano has 

previously served as a member of the Financial Reporting Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of 

New York and as a member of the Securities Regulation Committee of the New York City Bar Association. Mr. 

Graziano has been a panelist on numerous CLE litigation programs. 

 Mr. Graziano graduated from New York University College of Arts and Science in 1988, cum laude, with a 

B.A. in psychology, with honors, and thereafter received his J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of 

Law in 1991. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1992, New York. 1995, U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern 

Districts of New York. 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 2002, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 

Eleventh Circuit. 2003, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. 

  

WILLIAM C. FREDERICKS graduated with high honors from Swarthmore College in 1983 with a B.A. 

in political science, and earned his M.Litt. degree in international relations from Oxford University (England) in 

1988. In 1988, he also received his J.D. from Columbia University, where he was a three-time Harlan Fiske Stone 

Scholar, a Columbia University International fellow, an articles editor of The Columbia Journal of Transnational 

Law, and the recipient of the Beck Prize in property law, the Toppan Prize in advanced constitutional law, and the 

Greenbaum Prize for written advocacy. A panel chaired by Justice Antonin Scalia also awarded Mr. Fredericks the 

Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Prize for best oral argument in the final round of the 1988 Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court 

Competition. After law school, Mr. Fredericks clerked for the Hon. Robert S. Gawthrop III of the U.S. District Court 

for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and then spent seven years practicing securities and complex commercial 

litigation as an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Willkie Farr & Gallagher before moving to the 

plaintiffs’ side of the bar in 1997. 

 Mr. Fredericks has represented investors as a lead or co-lead counsel in over two dozen securities class 

actions, notably In re Rite Aid Securities Litigation (E.D. Pa.) (total settlements of $323 million, including the thensecond largest securities fraud settlement ever against a big-four accounting firm); In re Sears Roebuck & Co. 

Securities Litigation (N.D. Ill.) ($215 million settlement announced, subject to judicial approval); and Irvine v. 

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Imclone Systems, Inc. (S.D.N.Y.) ($75 million settlement). Mr. Fredericks has also successfully represented several 

institutional clients (including Mexico’s TV Azteca and Australia’s Australis Media Group) in private commercial 

disputes at both the trial and appellate level. See, e.g., National Broadcasting Co. v. Bear Stearns & Co., et al., 165 

F.3d 184 (2d Cir. 1999); News Ltd. v. Australis Holdings Pty. Limited, 728 N.Y.S. 2d 667 (1st Dep’t 2001) and 742 

N.Y.S. 2d 190 (1st Dep’t 2002). 

 Mr. Fredericks has been a panelist on a variety of litigation programs sponsored by various organizations, 

including the Practising Law Institute (PLI) and the American Law Institute/American Bar Association (ALI/ABA). 

He is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and a former chairman of the Association’s 

Committee on Military Affairs and Justice. 

 Mr. Fredericks is admitted to practice before the courts of New York State, the U.S. District Courts for the 

Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of Colorado, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 

Second, Third, Sixth and Tenth Circuits. He has also been admitted pro hac vice by, and argued before, the Supreme 

Court of the State of New Jersey (see Kaufman v. I-Stat Corp., 165 N.J. 94 (2000).) 

** ** 

JEFFREY N. LEIBELL specializes in prosecuting securities class actions as well as derivative actions 

involving breaches of fiduciary duty and corporate governance on behalf of the firm’s clients. 

 A Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Leibell served as a Senior Manager in the Audit Department of Deloitte 

& Touche LLP, where he audited “Fortune 500” and other companies in a variety of industries, prior to attending 

law school. Since joining the firm in 1996, he has prosecuted a number of the firm’s most significant cases, 

including In re Cendant Corporation Securities Litigation, which resulted in a $3.2 billion settlement, and McCall v. 

Scott, the Columbia/HCA Derivative Litigation. 

 He received his B.S., cum laude, in Accounting from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York 

in 1979, and a J.D. from Columbia University in 1992, where he was the Senior Notes Editor of the Columbia 

Business Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Mr. Leibell is the author of “Accountant’s Liability in the 

Savings & Loan Crisis: An Argument in Favor of Affirmative Defenses.” 

 Mr. Leibell is a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, the New York 

State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1992, New York. 1993, U. S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern 

Districts of New York. 1995, U. S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. 1996, U. S. District Court for the Eastern 

District of Michigan. 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. 2000, U.S. District Court for the District of 

Colorado; U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. 2004, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit. 

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 JOHN C. BROWNE received his B.A. in Economics, magna cum laude, in 1994 from James Madison 

University and his J.D., cum laude, in 1998 from Cornell Law School where he was General Editor of the Cornell 

Law Review. 

 Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Browne was a litigation associate at Latham & Watkins, where he had a wide 

range of experience in commercial litigation, including defending corporate officers and directors in securities class 

actions and derivative suits, and representing major corporate clients in state and federal court litigations and 

arbitrations. Mr. Browne was a member of the team representing the New York State Common Retirement Fund in 

In re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation, which culminated in a five-week trial against Arthur Andersen LLP and 

a recovery for investors of over $6.15 billion—the second largest securities fraud recovery in history. 

 Mr. Browne was also a member of the team responsible for prosecuting In re King Pharmaceuticals 

Litigation, which settled for $38.25 million. Along with firm partners Max Berger, Sean Coffey and Sal Graziano, 

and associate Jeremy Robinson, Mr. Browne is also a member of the team prosecuting In re Refco Securities 

Litigation, currently pending in the Southern District of New York, in which a partial settlement of $140 million has 

been achieved. Mr. Browne is also a member of the teams prosecuting In re SFBC Securities Litigation, currently 

pending in the District of New Jersey, and The Football League Limited, et al. v. YouTube, Inc. et al., pending in the 

Southern District of New York. 

Mr. Browne has been a panelist at various continuing legal education programs offered by the American 

Law Institute (“ALI”) and has published several articles relating to securities litigation. Most recently, Mr. Browne 

co-authored, along with senior partner Max Berger, “Is the Sky Really Falling on the U.S. Capital Markets?,” The 

NAPPA Report, Vol. 21, May 2007, available at www.nappa.org. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 2000, New York. 

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OF COUNSEL

DOUGLAS M. MCKEIGE received a B.A., cum laude, in Economics from Tufts University in 1979 and 

a J.D., magna cum laude, from Tulane University in 1986, where he was Order of the Coif and Articles Editor of the 

Tulane Law Review. A former partner with the Firm, Mr. McKeige now serves as Counsel. He has successfully 

prosecuted many significant federal securities class actions at the Firm, including In re 3Com Securities Litigation, 

which settled for $259 million, the largest settlement of a securities class action in the Ninth Circuit. A popular 

speaker and lecturer, he is a member of the National Association of Public Pension Attorneys, the Society of 

Pension Professionals, the National Association of State Treasurers, the National Council on Teacher Retirement 

and the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems. Mr. McKeige is a frequent speaker at public 

pension fund conferences nationwide and has addressed the National Conference on Public Employees Retirement 

Systems annual meeting four years in a row on the role of institutional investors in securities litigation. For nearly a 

decade, Mr. McKeige ran the Firm’s Institutional Investor Forum, an educational symposium conducted yearly for 

public pension fund managers, trustees and counsel. 

ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1987, New York. 1987, U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern 

Districts of New York. 

 ELLIOTT J. WEISS, one of America’s most highly respected experts in securities and corporate law, 

joined the firm as Counsel in December 2005 after retiring from his post as the Charles E. Ares Professor of Law at 

the University of Arizona’s Rogers College of Law. 

 Having spent nearly three decades of commitment to the development of young lawyers at several of the 

country’s finest academic institutions, Professor Weiss has enjoyed a remarkable career teaching, writing and 

lecturing, having strongly influenced and directed public policy regarding our capital markets. 

 He has authored and co-authored several seminal texts and over 30 influential articles on securities 

litigation and corporate law throughout his career. Among his many published works, Professor Weiss was the lead 

co-author of “Let the Money Do the Monitoring: How Institutional Investors Can Reduce Agency Costs in 

Securities Class Actions” {104 Yale L.J. 2053 (1995)}, which proposed new rules governing the organization of 

securities class actions. Congress based the lead plaintiff provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act 

of 1995 on that article and thus changed dramatically the dynamics of the securities class action litigation process. 

 Professor Weiss also was the first Executive Director of the Investor Responsibility Research Center, where 

he did groundbreaking work on institutional investors’ responsibility for corporate governance issues, and has 

served as a member of the National Adjudicatory Council of NASD-Regulation and as a consultant to the United 

States’ Securities and Exchange Commission. 

 A member, past and present, of numerous esteemed professional associations, including the American Law 

Institute, Professor Weiss has been a force for positive change in the legal, financial and business communities, and 

continues his long career defending the rights of investors and demanding responsible behavior from corporate 

management. 

 A graduate of Dartmouth College and Yale Law School, Professor Weiss resides in Tucson, Arizona and 

maintains an office at the Rogers College of Law. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1965, California (inactive). 1966, New York. 

 G. ANTHONY GELDERMAN, III served as Chief of Staff and General Counsel to the Treasurer of the 

State of Louisiana, (1992-1996) and prior to that served as General Counsel to the Louisiana Department of the 

Treasury. Mr. Gelderman also coordinated all legislative matters for the State Treasurer during his tenure with the 

Treasury Department. Earlier in Mr. Gelderman’s legal career, he served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge Charles 

Schwartz, Jr., Eastern District of Louisiana (1986-1987). 

 Mr. Gelderman is a former adjunct professor of law at the Tulane Law School where he has taught a course 

in legislative process. He is a member of the Louisiana State (Chairman, Young Lawyers Continuing Legal 

Education Committee, 1990-1993) and American Bar Associations. In 1995, Mr. Gelderman was profiled by the 

American Bar Association in Barrister magazine as one of the 25 young lawyers in America making a difference in 

the legal profession. 

 Mr. Gelderman heads the firm’s Louisiana office. 

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ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1986, Louisiana. 1997, U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District and 

Middle District of Louisiana. 

 WALLACE A. SHOWMAN, Counsel to the Firm, received his B.A. from Queens College in 1985 and 

his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1988. He has litigated dozens of successful class actions and 

derivative cases involving securities, corporate transactions, and consumer protection, including In re Cendant 

Securities Litigation (D. N.J.) and In re Telxon Corp. Securities Litigation (D. Ohio). He has also represented 

plaintiffs in several cases involving alleged fraud in private placement of securities and in NASD and NYSE 

securities arbitrations. 

 Mr. Showman is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association, 

New York State Bar Association, New York County Lawyers Association, and the Association of the Bar of the 

City of New York. 

 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1989, New York. 1989, U.S. District Courts, Southern, Eastern and 

Northern Districts of New York. 1994, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. 1998, United States Supreme Court. 2003, 

Second Circuit Court of Appeals. 2003, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado. 2005, Tenth Circuit Court of 

Appeals. 

 JONATHAN HARRIS, Counsel to the firm, received his B.A. from Stanford University in 1984, Phi Beta 

Kappa, and his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1987, Order of the Coif. After law school, he clerked for the 

Honorable Thomas P. Griesa, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. 

 Mr. Harris has over ten years experience litigating civil and criminal cases, and in representing individuals 

and companies in regulatory and internal investigations. Mr. Harris frequently represents individuals and, among 

other matters, was co-lead counsel in O’Meally v. Wachovia Securities and Prudential Securities, (NASD 2006), 

resulting in one of the largest monetary judgments ever awarded by an NASD panel to an individual broker. Prior to 

joining BLB&G in 2007, Mr. Harris was Counsel at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP. 

 In 2005, Mr. Harris was lead clemency counsel, pro bono, for death row inmate and Nobel Prize nominee, 

Stanley “Tookie” Williams. Mr. Harris is also the author of a novel, Seizing Amber, published in 2001 by 

Sourcebooks Landmark. Mr. Harris has appeared on CNN with Paula Zahn, CBS News and numerous other national 

and local media programs to discuss cases in which he was counsel. He speaks frequently on the issue of executive 

clemency, most recently appearing on a panel at Stanford Law School in May 2006. 

 Mr. Harris is currently a member of the team prosecuting In re Ceridian Shareholder Litigation, and 

currently represents a number of former senior executives in disputes with their prior employers and partners. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1989, New York. District of Columbia, 1991. California, 1993. 

SENIOR COUNSEL 

 ROCHELLE FEDER HANSEN, Senior Counsel to the firm, received her B.A. from Brooklyn College of 

the City University of New York in 1966 and her M.S. in 1976. She received her J.D., magna cum laude, from 

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1979, where she was a member of the Law Review. 

 Ms. Hansen has handled a number of high profile securities fraud cases at the firm, including In re 

StorageTek Securities Litigation, In re First Republic Securities Litigation, and the RJR Nabisco Litigation. Ms. 

Hansen has also acted as Antitrust Program Coordinator for Columbia Law School’s Continuing Legal Education 

Trial Practice Program for Lawyers. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1980, New York. 1980, U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern 

Districts of New York. 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. 

SPECIAL COUNSEL 

 DOMINIC J. AULD received his B.A. (Honours) in 1992 from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, 

Canada; and his J.D. in 1998 from the Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, 

where he received an academic scholarship, graduated on the Dean’s list, and was a founding member of the 

nationally recognized law review, Animal Law. 

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 Mr. Auld counsels public pension funds and other institutional investors regarding investment portfolio 

monitoring and the analysis of potential securities litigation claims. In connection with his public pension practice, 

Mr. Auld frequently addresses meetings of public pension trustees, administrators and attorneys concerning their 

fiduciary duties, particularly with respect to instances where portfolio assets are lost due to corporate fraud. He 

currently specializes in assisting the firm’s clients outside of the U.S., especially those in Canada and Europe. 

 Before joining BLB&G, Mr. Auld worked on commercial litigation matters for Ross Dixon & Bell in both 

their San Diego and Washington D.C. offices. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1999, New York. 

ASSOCIATES 

JERALD BIEN-WILLNER received his B.A., cum laude, from Claremont McKenna College in 1997 

where he was Dean’s List, a Claremont McKenna Distinguished Scholar, a recipient of the McKenna Scholar fouryear merit scholarship and was recognized by the faculty as the outstanding Literature graduate in his class. Mr. 

Bien-Willner received his J.D. from the University of Arizona College of Law in 2002 where he was a member of 

the Moot Court Board, National Moot Court Team and awarded Best Oral Advocate, and a Snell and Wilmer 

Scholar receiving a full academic merit scholarship. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Bien-Willner was in-house 

counsel for a real estate holding company where he advised on legal and business matters and prosecuted securities, 

tort, contract, real estate and insurance bad faith actions. 

 Mr. Bien-Willner is an active member of the team prosecuting the Mutual Fund Investment Multi-District 

Litigation, which includes the In re Invesco, In re MFS and In re Pilgrim Baxter actions. Mr. Bien-Willner is also a 

member of the team prosecuting In re Retek, Inc. Securities Litigation. 

 He is proficient in Spanish and practices out of the firm’s California office. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 2003, California, Arizona and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern 

and Central Districts of California. 

JAI K. CHANDRASEKHAR received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University, where he was 

elected to Phi Beta Kappa, in 1987. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a Book Review 

Editor of the Yale Law Journal, in 1997. 

 Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Chandrasekhar was a Staff Attorney with the Division of Enforcement of the 

United States Securities and Exchange Commission, where he investigated securities law violations and coordinated 

investigations involving multiple SEC offices and other government agencies. 

 Before his tenure at the SEC, he was an Associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, where he represented 

corporate issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of stocks, bonds, and complex securities and 

advised corporations on periodic reporting under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, compliance with the 

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and other corporate and securities matters. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 2001, New York. 2006, U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern 

Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. 

 TIMOTHY A. DeLANGE received his B.A. from the University of California, Riverside in 1994 and his 

J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1997. He was the 1994 recipient of the American 

Jurisprudence award in Contracts. 

 Mr. DeLange focuses on complex litigation in state and federal courts nationwide. Mr. DeLange is a 

member of the team prosecuting In re McKesson Securities Litigation, together with firm partners Max Berger and 

David Stickney. In that case, a partial settlement was reached for $960 million, the largest recovery for securities 

class-action settlements in courts within the Ninth Circuit. 

 Mr. DeLange is currently prosecuting a number of other securities cases, including, along with firm partner 

Blair Nicholas, In re Accredo Health, Inc. Securities Litigation. Mr. DeLange also serves as the editor of the firm’s 

quarterly publication, the Advocate. 

 Prior to joining the firm, Mr. DeLange practiced complex litigation at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP. 

He practices out of the firm’s California office. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to Bar, 1997, California. 1997, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of 

California. 2001, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. 2002, U.S. District Courts for the 

Northern and Eastern Districts of California. 

 

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 BENJAMIN GALDSTON primarily focuses on complex securities fraud litigation and corporate 

governance matters. He practices in the firm’s California office. Mr. Galdston participated in prosecuting In re 

McKesson Securities Litigation, together with firm partners Max Berger and David Stickney. In that case, a partial 

settlement was reached for $960 million, the largest recovery for securities class-action settlements in courts within 

the Ninth Circuit. Together with firm partners Max Berger, Sean Coffey, and David Stickney, Mr. Galdston recently 

represented institutional investors seeking to recover damages in In re EMAC Securities Litigation, a case that arose 

from a private offering of asset-backed securities. Among other cases, Mr. Galdston currently represents a certified 

class of investors in In re Retek, Inc. Securities Litigation, now pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of 

Minnesota and the Lead Plaintiff in In re Stone Energy Corp. Securities litigation, now pending in the U.S. District 

Court for the Western District of Louisiana. 

 Mr. Galdston received his law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2000, where he 

earned the American Trial Lawyers’ Association Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Appellate Advocacy, 

the American Jurisprudence Award for Property, and the Computer Assisted Learning Institute Award for 

Excellence in Legal Research. He was also an Executive Board Member of the Appellate Moot Court Board, 

competed in national Moot Court tournaments, and directed the University of San Diego School of Law National 

Criminal Procedure Moot Court Tournament. Following law school, Mr. Galdston represented investors in securities 

fraud actions at another national law firm. 

 Previously, Mr. Galdston was the sole proprietor of Litigation Support Systems, where he designed, 

constructed and maintained relational document databases for small law firms litigating document-intensive cases. 

He served as President of the Greater San Diego Barristers Club and is a member of the California Bar Association 

and the Federal Bar Association. He has published several articles concerning practice in the federal courts. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 2000, California. U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Northern and 

Central Districts of California. 

 PATRICIA S. GILLANE received her B.A., cum laude, from Columbia University in 1985 and her J.D. 

from Brooklyn Law School in 1989, where she was an editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. Ms. Gillane is the author 

of “One Moment in Time: The Second Circuit Ponders Choreographic Photography as a Copyright Infringement: 

Horgan vs. MacMillan.” She is a member of the American Bar Association and a former member of the Association 

of the Bar of the City of New York, where she served on the Professional Responsibility Committee. 

 Together with firm partners Max Berger and Edward Grossmann, Ms. Gillane successfully prosecuted In re 

Bennett Funding Group Litigation which arose out of the largest Ponzi scheme in history. After years of litigation, 

the matter settled for a total of over $165 million. 

 Most recently, she was a member of the team representing the New York State Common Retirement Fund 

in In re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation, which culminated in a five-week trial against Arthur Andersen LLP 

and a recovery for investors of over $6.15 billion—the second largest securities fraud recovery in history. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1990, New York. 1990, U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern 

Districts of New York. 

 BEATA GOCYK-FARBER is involved in all areas of the firm’s litigation practice, with particular 

emphasis on securities fraud actions, complex commercial litigation, and trial practice. 

 Most recently, Ms. Gocyk-Farber was a senior associate on the trial team that prosecuted In re WorldCom, 

Inc. Securities Litigation, resulting in a recovery for investors of over $6.15 billion -- the second largest securities 

fraud recovery in the history of the financial markets. She was also one of the senior lawyers leading the 

prosecution of In re Williams Securities Litigation, which resulted in $311 million in recoveries for the plaintiffs 

shortly before trial. This was one of the largest recoveries in a securities class action in which the corporate 

defendant did not restate its financial results. She is currently a senior member of the team prosecuting In re 

HealthSouth Securities Litigation and In re Converium Securities Litigation. Ms. Gocyk-Farber also has extensive 

experience in prosecuting executive compensation cases and is one of the senior lawyers prosecuting the federal 

derivative action against the individuals involved in the options backdating scandal at United Health Group, Inc. 

 Ms. Gocyk-Farber received her J.D., summa cum laude, from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 

1997, where she was a member of the Cardozo Law Review, the Order of the Coif, a Balkin Scholar and the 

recipient of the West Publishing Award for Academic Excellence. She authored and published “Patenting Medical 

Procedures: In Search of a Compromise Between Ethics and Economics” while at Cardozo. 

 Prior to joining BLB&G in 2001, Ms. Gocyk-Farber was an associate with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & 

Hamilton in New York, where she represented large financial institutions and sovereign governments in securities 

and merger and acquisitions transactions. 

 Ms. Gocyk-Farber is fluent in Polish and has working knowledge of Russian. She is a member of the 

International Law Section of the American Bar Association. 

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 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1998, New York. 2002, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of 

New York. 

 HANNAH E. GREENWALD received her B.A, cum laude, from Cornell University in 1995 and received 

her J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University, where she was a member of the 

Woolsack Honor Society, in 1998. While at Dickinson, Ms. Greenwald was a Comments Editor of the Dickinson 

Law Review. She was also the recipient of the D. Arthur Magaziner Human Services Award, awarded to the senior 

who has demonstrated good character, sound academic performance, high ethical standards, fidelity to the highest 

goals of the profession and commitment to selfless human service. 

 Before joining BLB&G, Ms. Greenwald was a prosecutor in the Insurance and Unemployment Fraud 

Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office. Prior to that, she was an Assistant District Attorney in the 

Middlesex County (Massachusetts) District Attorney’s office from 1998 to 2000. 

 Ms. Greenwald’s practice at the firm focuses on securities fraud litigation. Ms. Greenwald was part of the 

team that successfully prosecuted the securities class action against the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation 

(“Freddie Mac”) resulting in a settlement of $410 million. She was also a member of the team that successfully 

prosecuted the In re OM Group, Inc. Securities Litigation resulting in a settlement of $92.4 million. 

 Ms. Greenwald is currently prosecuting a number of other securities cases, including In re The Mills 

Corporation Securities Litigation and In re Delphi Corporation Securities Litigation. Ms. Greenwald is also 

working on cases relating to stock option backdating. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, Massachusetts (1998) and New York (2002). 

 LAURA H. GUNDERSHEIM received her B.A, magna cum laude, from the University of California, Los 

Angeles in 2001, where she was Phi Beta Kappa, and received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2004. While at 

Harvard, Ms. Gundersheim was a founding member and the Vice-President of the Harvard Advocates for 

Reproductive Choices and an executive committee member of the Women’s Law Journal. While in law school, she 

worked at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Health Law Advocates, The Hale & Dorr Legal Services Center 

and the Tenant Advocacy Project. 

 Since graduating from law school, Ms. Gundersheim’s practice has included securities fraud and 

shareholder derivative litigation on behalf of institutional investor clients, as well as consumer fraud, copyright 

infringement, and employment discrimination litigation. She was an integral part of the team that prosecuted the 

landmark In Re Walt Disney Derivative Litigation which redefined the fiduciary duties of directors in public 

companies. 

 She is currently a member of the teams prosecuting In re The Mills Corporation Securities Litigation, In re 

Comverse Technology, Inc. Derivative Litigation, In re Sunrise Senior Living Securities Litigation, In re Openwave 

Securities Litigation, Fleishman v. Huang et al. Derivative Litigation and Breese et al v. CooperSurgical, Inc. 

 Ms. Gundersheim is a member of the New York Bar Association’s Consumer Affairs Committee and Trial 

Lawyers for Public Justice. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 2005, New York. 2005, U. S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern 

Districts of New York. 

 DAVID R. HASSEL received his B.A., magna cum laude, in 1995 from St. Olaf College, Northfield, 

Minnesota in Political Thought, and a J.D. with High Distinction/Special Honors from the University of Iowa in 

1999, where he was a member of the Iowa Law Review and Associate Editor of the Journal of Transnational Law & 

Contemporary Problems. 

 Mr. Hassel’s practice focuses on securities and complex litigation, as well as corporate governance issues. 

Together with firm partners Max Berger, Sean Coffey, Steven Singer and Chad Johnson, Mr. Hassel was a member 

of the team responsible for prosecuting the In re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation, which culminated in a fiveweek trial against Arthur Andersen LLP and a recovery for investors of over $6.15 billion—the second largest 

securities fraud recovery in history. Currently, Mr. Hassel is a senior attorney prosecuting In re Omnicom Inc. 

Securities Litigation and In re HealthSouth Corp. Securities Litigation. 

 Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Hassel was a litigation associate at Dewey Ballantine, LLP in its New York 

office, representing clients in private securities litigation, informal inquiries from the SEC and SROs and general 

corporate governance issues as well as general commercial litigation. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, Massachusetts, 2000. New York, 2002. U.S. District Court, Southern 

District of New York, 2004. 

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 AVI JOSEFSON received his B.A., cum laude, from Brandeis University in 1997 and his J.D., Dean’s 

List, from Northwestern University in 2000. At Northwestern, Mr. Josefson represented indigent juvenile and adult 

clients in various courts and was awarded the Justice Stevens Public Interest Fellowship (1999) and the Public 

Interest Law Initiative Fellowship (2000). 

 He is a co-author of several articles including “Top 10 Considerations When Seeking Insurance Recovery 

for E-Commerce and Internet Claims,” which he wrote for the ABA, as well as “Political and Currency Risk 

Insurance” and “It’s Not a Small World After All: Meeting the Challenge of Global Risks” which he wrote for the 

Manufacturers Alliance Risk Management Councils I & II. 

 Mr. Josefson was a member of the team responsible for the successful prosecution of the Columbia/HCA 

Healthcare Corporation Derivative Litigation, arising from the largest healthcare fraud in history. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 2000, Illinois. 2003, New York. 

 ERIC T. KANEFSKY received his B.A. in 1999 from The George Washington University and his J.D., 

cum laude, from Temple University in 2002, where he was the Associate Research Editor of the Temple Law 

Review. While at Temple, Mr. Kanefsky was a James Beasley First Year Scholar and awarded the Temple 

University Law Foundation Scholarship for the 2000-2001 academic year. He was also selected as one of 

approximately fifteen students to participate in Temple’s Federal Judicial Clerkship program, through which he 

served as a student law clerk to the Hon. Bruce W. Kauffman, United States District Court Judge for the Eastern 

District of Pennsylvania during his third year of law school. While in law school, Mr. Kanefsky also interned for 

The Honorable James R. Melinson, Chief Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 

 After law school, Mr. Kanefsky was a litigation associate in the White Collar and Government 

Enforcement Group at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP in Philadelphia. Since joining BLBG in 2003, he has 

worked on numerous high profile cases, including In re Symbol Technologies Litigation, which has achieved 

settlements totaling $163 million and In re HealthSouth Bondholders Litigation, which has achieved settlements 

totaling $445 million. Mr. Kanefsky is currently the lead associate representing the English Premier Soccer League 

and Bourne Music Company in a copyright infringement class action against online video-sharing service YouTube 

and its parent Google. He is also currently a member of the litigation teams prosecuting In re R&G Financial 

Corporation Securities Litigation and In re Scottish Re Group Securities Litigation, both pending in the United 

States District Court for the Southern District of New York. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 2002, Pennsylvania. 2002, New Jersey. 2005, New York. 2003, U.S. 

District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. 2003, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey. 2005, U.S. 

District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. 

 TAKEO A. KELLAR received his B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of California, Riverside 

in 1997, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. He received his J.D. from the University of 

San Diego School of Law in 2004, where he was an Executive Board Member of the Appellate Moot Court Board. 

 Mr. Kellar’s practice focuses on securities fraud litigation. Together with firm partners, he is currently a 

member of the teams prosecuting the stock options backdating derivative actions, In re Activision, Inc. Shareholder 

Derivative Litigation and In re Apollo Group, Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, California, 2004. U.S. District Court for the Southern District of 

California, 2004. 

 MARK LEBOVITCH received his B.A., cum laude, in 1996 from Binghamton University and his J.D., 

cum laude, from New York University School of Law in 1999 where he was the Staff Editor of the Annual Survey of 

American Law. 

 Following law school, Mr. Lebovitch clerked for Vice Chancellor Stephen P. Lamb on the Court of 

Chancery of the State of Delaware, where he participated in numerous trials and hearings involving hostile takeover 

and similar fundamental corporate transaction-based litigation, derivative suits, appraisal actions and other 

shareholder claims relating to allegations that corporate officers and directors breached their fiduciary, contractual 

and/or statutory duties. 

 Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Lebovitch was a litigation associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom 

in New York, where he litigated several hostile corporate takeovers and represented clients in a variety of corporate 

governance and commercial matters. He has worked on corporate disputes that went to trial before the Delaware 

Chancery Court, the New York Supreme Court and before a three member private arbitration panel. He also 

represented clients in several significant securities fraud cases. 

 Mr. Lebovitch is the co-author of “Calling a Duck a Duck: Determining the Validity of Deal Protection 

Provisions in Merger of Equals Transactions” (2001 Columbia Business Law Review 1). The article advocated for 

greater protection for shareholders in connection with so-called “deal protections,” which have since been 

effectuated by a recent opinion of the Delaware Supreme Court. He is also the co-author of “Practical Refinement” 

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(The Daily Deal, January 2002), which discussed evolving developments in the law of directors’ fiduciary duties. He 

is a member of the American Bar Association, its Section on Business Law and Committee on Corporate 

Governance, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. 

 Among other matters, Mr. Lebovitch is currently a member of the teams prosecuting In re Suprema 

Specialties, Inc. Securities Litigation, In re Williams Securities Litigation, In re Omnicom Group, Inc. Securities 

Litigation, Police and Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit v. SafeNet, Inc., In re Cablevision Shareholders 

Litigation, and Louisiana Municipal Employees’ Retirement System, et al. v. Edwin M. Crawford. et al. 

(representing Caremark shareholders in a fiduciary duty action challenging the Caremark proposed merger with 

CVS and the board of directors’ rejection of a hostile takeover offer by Express Scripts). He regularly works with 

the new matter team to investigate and assess potential new litigations, including lawsuits challenging officer and 

director conduct in the corporate transactional context. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, New York, 2000. U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern 

Districts of New York, 2001. 

 NOAM MANDEL received his B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University in 1998 and his J.D., cum laude, 

from Boston University School of Law in 2002 where he served as an Editor for the Boston University Law Review

and won awards in civil procedure, evidence, and international law. While in law school, he also participated in an 

exchange program with the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, where he concentrated his studies on 

international and comparative law. 

 Mr. Mandel prosecutes securities fraud, corporate governance and shareholder rights litigation for the 

firm’s institutional investor clients. He has been a member of the litigation teams on several of the firm’s recent 

high profile cases including In re Nortel Networks Corporation Securities Litigation, which resulted in a recovery 

worth in excess of $1.3 billion in cash and stock, as well as the securities class action against the Federal Home 

Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”), in which a $410 million settlement was obtained for defrauded 

investors. More recently, he was a member of the team that prosecuted the Caremark Merger Litigation, a 

shareholder class action contesting the terms of a proposed merger between Caremark Rx, Inc. and CVS 

Corporation on behalf of Caremark’s shareholders. The litigation resulted in over $3 billion in additional 

consideration being offered to Caremark shareholders by CVS. 

 Prior to joining BLB&G, Mr. Mandel was a litigation associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where 

his practice focused on securities, shareholder and ERISA fiduciary matters. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, New York, 2004. U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New 

York, 2006. 

LAUREN A. McMILLEN received her B.A. in History in 1996 from Duke University and her J.D., cum 

laude, in 2000 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a Research Editor for the University 

of Pennsylvania Law Review. 

 Following law school, Ms. McMillen served as a law clerk for the Honorable Colleen McMahon, District 

Court Judge for the Southern District of New York. 

 Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Ms. McMillen was a litigation associate at Heller Ehrman LLP. She has 

extensive experience in securities litigation and complex commercial litigation, and has defended various 

corporations and accounting firms in securities class actions and represented individuals in regulatory investigations 

before the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

 Ms. McMillen is currently a member of the teams prosecuting In re New Century Securities Litigation, The 

Football Association Premier League Limited, et. al. v. YouTube, Inc., et al., In re HealthSouth Bondholder 

Litigation, and In re Converium Holding AG Securities Litigation. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, New York. 2001, U. S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 

2001. U. S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 2006. 

NIKI L. MENDOZA joined the San Diego office in 2002. Since joining the firm, Ms. Mendoza has helped 

obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in recoveries on behalf of defrauded investors, including her involvement in 

the In re El Paso Corp. Securities Litigation, In re Symbol Technologies Corp. Securities Litigation, and In re 

Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. Securities Litigation, among others. 

 In 2005, Ms. Mendoza assisted in completing a full jury trial and achieving a rare securities fraud verdict 

against the company’s CEO in In re Clarent Corporations Securities Litigation. She also recently conducted 

extensive fact and expert discovery, full motion practice and completed substantial trial preparation in In re 

Electronic Data Systems, Inc. Securities Litigation, resulting in settlement just prior to trial for $137.5 million – one 

of the larger settlements in non-restatement cases since the passage of the PSLRA. Ms. Mendoza is again currently 

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preparing for trial, this time as a member of the trial team prosecuting the case against Defendant Bear Stearns in In 

re McKesson HBOC, Inc. Securities Litigation. 

 Ms. Mendoza co-authored various articles which have been cited in federal court opinions (including Dura 

Pharm., Inc. v. Broudo-The Least of All Evils, 1505 PLI/Corp. 272, 274 (Sept. 2005) and Dura-Bull: Myths of Loss 

Causation, 1557 PLI/Corp. 339 (Sept. 2006)). In addition to her practice, she serves as a 2007 Co-Chair of the 

Steering Committee of the San Diego County Bar Association’s Children At Risk committee, a committee that 

works with schools and children’s organizations and coordinates literacy and enrichment programs that rely on 

attorney volunteers. 

 Ms. Mendoza received her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Oregon, where she was a member of the 

Order of the Coif and a Managing Editor of the Oregon Law Review, for which she wrote “Rooney v. Kulongoski, 

Limiting the Principle of Separation of Powers?” She served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Chief Judge 

Michael R. Hogan of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon from 1998 to 2001 where she 

received the Distinguished Service Recognition in September 2001. 

 Before joining BLB&G, Ms. Mendoza represented both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial and 

employment litigation, practicing in both Hawaii and California. Ms. Mendoza is a member of the State Bar of 

Hawaii and the State Bar of California. She practices out of the firm’s California Office. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, Hawaii, 1997. California, 2001. 

 BRETT M. MIDDLETON primarily focuses in the areas of securities fraud and auditor liability. He has 

significant trial experience, having worked with firm partner Blair Nicholas in successfully prosecuting In re 

Clarent Corp. Securities Litigation, which resulted in a jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs and against the founder and 

former CEO of Clarent Corp. 

 Mr. Middleton was on the litigation team representing the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System and the 

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board in In re Williams Securities Litigation, which resulted in a $311 million cash 

settlement against all defendants. The settlement was one of the largest in a securities class action case without a 

restatement by the defendant company. As part of this action, the team engaged in a massive discovery effort which 

included taking more than 150 depositions and reviewing in excess of 18 million pages of documents. Mr. 

Middleton was responsible for the prosecution of the case against Ernst & Young for its 2001 audit of Williams’ 

Energy Marketing & Trading subsidiary and was instrumental in obtaining a settlement from Ernst & Young in the 

amount of $21 million. 

 Most recently, Mr. Middleton assisted firm partners Jerry Silk and Salvatore Graziano in prosecuting a 

shareholder class action against the directors of Caremark RX, Inc. for violations of their fiduciary duties arising 

from their approval and continued endorsement of a proposed merger with CVS Corporation and their refusal to 

consider fairly an alternative transaction proposed by Express Scripts, Inc. 

 Among other matters, Mr. Middleton is currently working with firm partner David Stickney on the In re 

Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Securities Litigation matter. He is also assisting Mr. Stickney in the firm’s 

representation of Amalgamated Bank as lead plaintiff against certain officers and directors of Activision, Inc. for 

their participation in the backdating of stock options. He is also working with Mr. Nicholas in prosecuting the 

federal derivative action against the individuals involved in the options backdating scandal at Apollo Group, Inc.

which is the parent company of the University of Phoenix. 

 Mr. Middleton graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1993 and received his J.D. 

from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1998. He is an active member of the Federal Bar Association 

and the Association of Business Trial Lawyers of San Diego. Mr. Middleton practices out of the firm’s California 

office. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to the State Bar of California, 1998; U.S. District Court for the Central District 

of California, 1998; U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, 2002; and U.S. District Court for the 

Northern District of California, 2005. 

 MATTHEW MOEHLMAN received his A.B. in English and American Literature and Language from 

Harvard College in 1992, where he was an editor of The Harvard Lampoon magazine and The Harvard Crimson

newspaper. He received his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2003. 

 Prior to joining BLB&G, Mr. Moehlman worked as an associate at Strasburger & Price, LLP in Texas, and 

has experience in commercial litigation. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, Texas, 2004. New York, 2005. 

 

 JEREMY P. ROBINSON received his LL.B. from Queen’s University, Faculty of Law in Kingston, 

Ontario, Canada in 1998, where he graduated within the top 10% of his class and received numerous prizes, 

including honors in the Niagara International Moot Court Competition. In 2000, Mr. Robinson was awarded a 

Harold G. Fox scholarship and spent a year in London, England working with barristers and judges of the Middle 

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Temple, Inns of Court. In 2005, he received his Master of Laws degree from Columbia University School of Law, 

where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. 

 Prior to joining BLB&G, Mr. Robinson worked as a litigation associate at Torys LLP in Toronto, Canada, 

during which time he co-authored numerous publications, including one of the first books published in Canada 

regarding new private sector privacy litigation. Mr. Robinson has extensive experience in securities and general 

commercial litigation. 

 Along with firm partners Max Berger, Sean Coffey, Sal Graziano and John Browne, Mr. Robinson is a 

member of the team prosecuting In re Refco, Inc. Securities Litigation, which is currently pending in the Southern 

District of New York. Mr. Robinson is also a member of the teams responsible for prosecuting In re Isolagen, Inc. 

Securities Litigation and In re R&G Financial Corporation Securities Litigation.

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, Ontario, Canada, 2000. New York, Pending. 

 MATTHEW P. SIBEN received his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, summa cum 

laude, in 1996 and received his J.D. in 2000 from Harvard Law School, cum laude, where he was an Executive 

Editor for the Harvard Negotiation Law Review and an Editor of the Journal of Law and Public Policy. 

Mr. Siben has prosecuted a number of major securities fraud class actions, including In re Enron, In re 

UnitedHealth Group, and In re NYSE Specialists Securities Litigation. He also has experience prosecuting 

consumer fraud class actions. 

Based in the firm’s California office, Mr. Siben is currently a member of the teams prosecuting Police & 

Fire Retirement System of the City of Detroit v. SafeNet, Inc., et al., In re Activision, Inc. Shareholder Derivative 

Litigation, In re Apollo Group, Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation, and In re Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 

Securities Litigation. 

ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 2001, New York. 2001, Massachusetts. 2002, California. 

 KATHERINE McCRACKEN SINDERSON received her B.A., cum laude, from Baylor University in 

2002 and her J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University in 2006, where she was a Dean’s Scholar. While at 

Georgetown, Ms. Sinderson served as an Articles Editor for The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law. 

 Ms. Sinderson’s practice focuses on securities fraud and class action litigation. She is currently a member 

of the teams prosecuting In re Biovail Corporation Securities Litigation, pending in the Southern District of New 

York, and In re Comverse Technology, Inc. Derivative Shareholder Litigation, the stock options backdating case 

currently pending in the Eastern District of New York. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, New York, 2007. 

DAVID A. THORPE received his B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999. While at 

UCLA, Mr. Thorpe was named an Ahmanson Undergraduate Research Scholar by the Center for 17th and 18th

Century Studies in connection with the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Mr. Thorpe received his J.D. in 

2001 from Southwestern University School of Law. 

 Mr. Thorpe has significant experience prosecuting several major class and individual securities actions on 

behalf of institutional clients. Some of the notable cases in which he served as lead counsel include In re AOL Time 

Warner Individual Opt-Out Litigation ($600 million recovery), comprising both The Regents of the University of 

California et al., v. Parsons, et al. ($260 million recovery) and Ohio Public Employees Retirement System, et al., v. 

Richard D. Parsons, et al. ($175 million recovery), as well as, In re Amazon.com, Inc. Securities Litigation ($27 

million recovery). 

 Mr. Thorpe practices out of the firm’s California office and is currently a member of the teams prosecuting 

the Mutual Fund Investment Multi-District Litigation, which includes In re Invesco, In re MFS, and In re Pilgrim 

Baxter actions, as well as the In re Linear Technology Corp. Shareholder Derivative Litigation. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 2001, California. 

DAVID H. WEBBER received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1995, Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. 

in 2002 from New York University School of Law, where he was a Notes Development Editor for the New York 

University Law Review. 

 Following law school, Mr. Webber served as a law clerk for the Honorable Harold A. Ackerman, United 

States Senior District Court Judge for the District of New Jersey. 

 Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Mr. Webber was a litigation associate at Patterson Belknap Webb and 

Tyler LLP. He has extensive experience in complex commercial litigation, including bondholder and creditors 

committee actions, consumer fraud cases, fiduciary duty litigation, and false claims (Qui Tam) actions. He has also 

represented clients in internal investigations and civil litigation including international arbitration, employment 

discrimination and Fair Labor Standards Act violations. In addition, Mr. Webber has litigated on behalf of domestic 

violence survivors, and was honored in 2005 with a Pro Bono Award from The Legal Aid Society. 

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 Mr. Webber is currently a member of the teams prosecuting the In re Refco, Inc. Securities Litigation

and UnitedHealth Group, Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 2002, New Jersey. 2004, New York. 2002, U.S. District Court, District 

of New Jersey. 2005, United States District Court, Southern District of New York. 2005, United States District 

Court, Eastern District of New York. 2005, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Court. 

ADAM H. WIERZBOWSKI received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 2000, and 

earned his J.D., with honors, from The George Washington University Law School in 2003. While at George 

Washington Law, Mr. Wierzbowski served as Notes Editor for The George Washington International Law Review 

and was a member of the Moot Court Board. 

 Mr. Wierzbowski’s practice focuses on securities fraud litigation. He is currently a member of the teams 

prosecuting the UnitedHealth Group, Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litigation and the Mutual Fund Investment MultiDistrict Litigation, which includes the actions In re Invesco, In re MFS and In re Pilgrim Baxter. 

 ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 2004, New York. 2005, U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern 

Districts of New York. 

 DEVAL R. KARINA ZAVERI received her B.S., magna cum laude, in 1994 from Georgia Tech and her 

J.D., cum laude, from University of Georgia School of Law in 1997 where she was Articles Editor for the Journal of 

Intellectual Property Law. 

 Following law school, Ms. Zaveri was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, Judge Advocate General’s Corps 

where she was chosen as lead counsel for a high-profile felony jury trial. During her tenure with the U.S. Navy, she 

was ranked as the top defense counsel in the Navy’s second largest criminal defense unit. 

 Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Zaveri was a litigation associate at Cooley Godward LLP where she practiced 

commercial and securities litigation, and Morrison & Foerster LLP where she practiced commercial, criminal, and 

intellectual property litigation. 

 Ms. Zaveri is a director of the San Diego Museum of Art’s Committee for the Arts of the Indian 

Subcontinent, and a former director of the South Asian Bar Association of San Diego. Additionally, she participates 

in the San Diego County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyer Program and is a member of the Federal Bar 

Association, the Lawyers’ Club, and the J. Clifford Wallace Inns of Court. 

ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1997, Georgia. 2001, California. 

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