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January 14, 2009 |

After Short Retirement, Schiffrin Back Practicing

Richard Schiffrin, co-founder of the securities and consumer class action firm formerly known as Schiffrin Barroway Topaz & Kessler, has resurfaced as of counsel at New York litigation boutique Grant & Eisenhofer after less than a year in retirement.
3 minute read
August 30, 2010 |

Barroway Topaz adds patent contingent fee practice

Plaintiffs' law firm Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check added a patent litigation practice with two partners from Philadelphia intellectual property boutique Woodcock Washburn.
2 minute read
September 01, 2010 |

Class Action Firm Opens Intellectual Property Practice

Radnor, Pa.-based plaintiffs firm Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check has opened a patent litigation practice with two partners from Philadelphia-based intellectual property boutique Woodcock Washburn.
5 minute read
September 03, 2010 |

Class Action Firm Opens IP Contingency Fee Practice

Pennsylvania plaintiffs firm Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check has opened a patent litigation practice, to be run on a contingency basis, with two partners from Philadelphia-based intellectual property boutique Woodcock Washburn: Michael J. Bonella and Paul B. Milcetic. "I really think this is a model whose time has come," Milcetic says. He notes his clients never explicitly said they wanted to switch from hourly billing to contingency fees, but he got the message based on things like how marketing went.
5 minute read
September 11, 2009 |

Barroway Topaz Opens West Coast Office

The securities class action firm makes its second home in San Francisco, headed by former Coughlin Stoia partner Ramzi Abadou.
1 minute read
March 06, 2008 |

Firm Founder Schiffrin Retires After 30-Year Career

Now that Richard S. Schiffrin has retired, he can really get down to work. Schiffrin, who founded Philadelphia securities and consumer class action firm Schiffrin Barroway Topaz & Kessler 21 years ago, has decided to end his 30-year legal career in the interest of taking up at least three new careers in other fields. His last day was Friday, Feb. 29.
4 minute read
December 23, 2008 |

Laterals and New Leadership for Small, Midsized Firms

While the lagging economy's effect on business was an obvious concern for small and midsized firms in 2008, there was no shortage of lateral movement among them for most of the year.
11 minute read
October 08, 2010 |

Plaintiffs Firms Hit With Rule 11 Sanctions in Dismissed Securities Class Action

A federal judge in Connecticut has granted an unusual motion for Rule 11 sanctions against Labaton Sucharow and Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, lead plaintiffs counsel in a failed securities class action against Star Gas. The judge agreed with Star's counsel from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom that the class's claims were almost entirely without merit, and that Labaton and Barroway knew as much early in the litigation. She ordered the plaintiffs firms to pay all of Star's attorney fees and costs.
3 minute read
October 05, 2009 |

THE PLAINTIFFS' HOT LIST

The firms selected for this year's honors are: Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check; Berger & Montague; Bernstein Liebhard; Bernstein Litowitz; Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy; Coughlin Stoia; Grant & Eisenhofer; Hagens Berman; Labaton Sucharow; Lieff Cabraser; Milberg; Phillips & Cohen; Quinn Emanuel; Seeger Weiss; and Woodcock Washburn. Read on for the winning cases that earned these firms their place on the list.
19 minute read
October 05, 2009 |

Plaintiffs Firms Face Rule 11 Motion for Work on Massey Derivative Suit

A West Virginia federal judge's dismissal of a shareholders derivative suit against the board of Massey Energy was bad news for plaintiffs firm Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, but worse may be yet to come. The judge is set to decide a Rule 11 motion for sanctions filed by defense counsel, including Cravath, Swaine & Moore, who claim that Barroway's federal court complaint essentially copied a state court complaint that preceded the federal suit by a couple of weeks and added "trivial" new allegations.
3 minute read

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