The fallout from the financial system collapse features prominently in this year’s edition of The National Law Journal’s Plaintiffs’ Hot List. We highlight Labaton Sucharow’s role in $1 billion in securities fraud settlements involving American International Group Inc., but there are multiple additional examples—including a potential $9 billion recovery from Vivendi Universal S.A. We looked for cases that produced substantial verdicts or settlements between the summer of 2009 and 2010. Our conclusions are subjective, but show the plaintiffs’ bar at its best.
THE 2010 PLAINTIFFS’ HOT LIST
The firms selected for this year’s honors are: Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check; Berger & Montague; Bernstein Liebhard; Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann; Grant & Eisenhofer; Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro; Hausfeld; Labaton Sucharow; Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein; Milberg; Phillips & Cohen; and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Read on for the winning cases that earned these firms their place on the list.
