Editor’s note 
Funny thing about the death of the class action: Someone forgot to send the memo to the plaintiffs’ bar. Judging from the dozens of nominations we received for this, our sixth, annual list of the country’s most prominent plaintiffs’ firms, the plaintiff’s bar is as aggressive as ever, maybe even more so.
THE 2007 PLAINTIFFS’ HOT LIST
The firms selected for this year’s honors are: Berger & Montague; Bernstein Liebhard & Lifshitz; Bernstein Litowitz; Coughlin Stoia; Grant & Eisenhofer; Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro; Korein Tillery; Labaton Sucharow; Lieff Cabraser; Phillips & Cohen; Schiffrin Barroway; Seeger Weiss; Whatley Drake & Kallas. Read on for the winning cases that earned these firms their place on the list.
