In an odd-couple pairing, a white-shoe East Coast securities defense attorney and two scrappy San Diego plaintiffs lawyers are taking on former top brass at Brocade Communications Systems over backdating. Securities lawyers say it's unusual for a special litigation committee to hire the plaintiffs lawyers it clashed with -- but they also say it's unusual for a special litigation committee to take such wide-ranging action against so many defendants.
August 13, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
It’s the legal odd couple — and they’re taking on former top brass at Brocade Communications Systems for backdating.
White shoe, East Coast securities defense attorney Ralph Ferrara and two scrappy San Diego plaintiffs lawyers, Frank Bottini and Marc Umeda, said they’d agreed to work together on the Brocade litigation at a case management conference Friday in Santa Clara County Superior Court.
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