Our Litigator of the Week is Boies Schiller Flexner partner Stuart Singer, who represented Greenberg Traurig in a high-stakes putative class action by investors who lost billions in the R. Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme.

The investor plaintiffs sued Greenberg under a respondeat superior theory, arguing that a firm lawyer conspired with Stanford to further the fraud. Singer prevailed at the district court level, successfully arguing that an attorney is immune from civil suits brought by a non-client when the conduct at issue occurred within the scope of the attorney’s representation of a client.

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