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Securities litigators vie for lists
Firms are finding competition increasingly difficult when bidding for a place on states' short lists for lucrative securities litigation work.B2B takes on a whole new meaning
Big business and many legislators paint the courts in the popular imagination as handing out gigantic verdicts in class actions, medical malpractice and products liability cases. In reality, the biggest verdicts last year were obtained by businesses suing other businesses.Cite as: In Re: Publication Paper Antitrust Litigation, 11-101-cv, NYLJ 1202566594235, at *1 (2d Cir., Decided August 6, 2012)Before: Calabresi, Raggi, an
Delaware Judge Faults 'Multi-Forum' Litigation as Plaintiffs Fight Deals
A recent Chancery Court ruling decided a fee dispute between plaintiffs firms that brought separate Delaware and New York State Supreme Court class actions after Allion Healthcare announced its takeover. And while the fees at issue are just $1 million, Chancellor William Chandler III noted that the fee splitting issue "is yet another byproduct of the rise of multi-forum deal litigation, the fallout of which has become increasingly problematic in recent years as more and more of these cases are filed in multiple jurisdictions."City Hired Ex-Federal Prosecutors to Counsel Employees
Many a Philadelphian caught up in a criminal investigation has sought legal advice from someone who's helped run one before.Are Milberg Weiss' Glory Days Over?
After losing a bid to act as lead counsel in the $3 billion McKesson securities fraud litigation, Milberg Weiss suffers another blow - this time, the loss of key rainmaker Alan Schulman to a competitor. Schulman, viewed by many as second only to William Lerach as the most influential West Coast securities plaintiffs lawyer, attributes his departure to "philosophical differences with Bill Lerach over the direction of the firm."A Good Cop/Bad Cop Dynamic Scores Big
It was a good cop/bad cop strategy that won a whopping $6.13 billion settlement of the WorldCom Inc. litigation. The bad cop was plaintiffs' lawyer John P. "Sean" Coffey of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann in New York, and the good cop was Coffey's partner, Max W. Berger. Teamed up against some of New York's largest firms, the duo scored a record securities fraud recovery that sent shock waves through every boardroom in the country.Trending Stories
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