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June 20, 2011 |

A ray of light for the Review 100 firms

It's the dawn of better times as law firms open offices in South Florida, where they have access to Latin American business and foreign-driven development.
8 minute read
July 09, 2002 |

New GCs for TXU and Trivest

Meet the new GCs for a Dallas energy distributor and a Miami private investment firm. After a brief stay in Detroit as general counsel for GTE Energy, Eric H. Peterson returns to his native Dallas to take the top legal spot at TXU Corp., where he worked as outside counsel for more than a decade. Trivest's 18-month search for a new GC ended with David Gersham, who joins the investment firm from Miami's Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson.
7 minute read
December 13, 2010 |

In world of law, Rothstein story dominated news in 2010

The Scott Rothstein case slithered through courts for much of the year. The disbarred Fort Lauderdale lawyer and his long-time assistant, law firm chief financial officer Debra Villegas, went to prison for the $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.
18 minute read
November 15, 2004 |

Branch offices

The NLJ 250: Branch offices.
31 minute read
December 14, 2010 |

Lenders, servicers scramble to shift cases to new firms

As the one-time largest plaintiff foreclosure law firm in Florida, the Law Offices of David J. Stern at its peak handled 20 percent of all foreclosures in the state, processing more than 70,000 foreclosure cases on behalf of major lenders like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase in 2009. Now that the Plantation law firm has been dropped by a number of lenders and servicers including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, ex-clients are scrambling to find law firms and lawyers to fill the void.
6 minute read
August 08, 2005 |

Movers

Duane Morris (Philadelphia): Three attorneys in the intellectual property practice group have become partners—and other notable personnel shifts.
4 minute read
April 29, 2009 |

What Can We Learn From the Implosion of Wolf Block?

The implosion of Wolf Block has led many, including this author, to wonder what went wrong. How can law firm leaders enhance chances for firm survival and growth in the face of a poor economy and limitations on lines of credit? By looking at the organizational elements, which dynamically interact to create a law firm that flourishes or one that heads toward dissolution, I will offer an answer to that question.
8 minute read
In Re Wachovia Equity Securities Litigation, 08 Civ. 6171 (RJS)
Publication Date: 2011-04-07
Practice Area: Business Law
Industry:
Court: U.S. District Court, Southern District
Judge: District Judge Richard J. Sullivan
Attorneys:
For plaintiff: The Equity Plaintiffs are represented by Ira M. Press, Andrew Martin McNeela, and Roger W. Kirby of Kirby McInerney LLP, New York, NY. The Stichting Plaintiffs are represented by Geoffrey Coyle, Jarvis, Jay W. Eisenhofer, and Michele S. Carino of Grant & Eisenhofer, P.A., New York, NY; and James Richard Banko of Grant & Eisenhofer, P A, Chase Manhattan Centre, Wilmington, DE. The FC Holdings Plaintiffs are represented by Daniel Arthur Cohen, Daniel Joseph Kornstein, and Amy Christine Gross of Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, LLP, New York, NY; JefIrey H. Squire of Bracewell & Patterson, LLP, Washington, DC; and Paul D. Wexler of Bragar, Wexler & Eagel, P.C., New York, NY. The Bond/Notes Plaintiffs represented by John J. Gross, Christopher L. Nelson, David Kessler, John Anthony Kehoe, and Benjamin J. Sweet of Barrowav Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP, Radnor, P A; Nichole Browning and Eric Donald Peterson of Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check, LLP, San Francisco, CA; Ramzi Abadou, Maureen Elizabeth Mueller, Lucas F. Olts, and John J. Rice of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, San Diego, CA; David Avi Rosenfeld of Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, Melville, NY; John Patrick Coffey, William Curtis Fredericks, Kurt Michael Hinciker, Christopher Chad Johnson, John James Rizio-Hamilton, and Jeroen Van Kwawegen of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP, New York, NY; Jack Gerald Fruchter of Abraham Fruchter & Twersky LLP, New York, NY; Lionel Z. Glancy of Glancy & Binkow, LLP, Los Angeles, CA; Michael Max Goldberg of the Law Offices of Michael Goldberg, New York, NY; Marc Ian Gross and Fei-Lu Qian of Pomerantz Haudek Block Grossman & Gross LLP, New York, NY.
For defendant: The Wachovia Defendants are represented by Douglas H. Flaum, Eric A. Hirsch, Israel David, and John W. Brewer of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York, NY. The Underwriter Defendants are represented by Alfred Robert Pietrzak, Patrick Michael McGuirk, Owen Harris Smith, and Saima S. Ahmed of Sidley Austin LLP, New York, NY. Defendant KPMG is represented by Emmet Thomas Flood of Williams & Connolly LLP, Washington, DC and Marshall Beil of McGuireWoods LLP, New York, NY.
Case number: 08 Civ. 6171 (RJS)

Cite as: In Re Wachovia Equity Securities Litigation, 08 Civ. 6171 (RJS), NYLJ 1202489220302, at *1 (SDNY, Decided March 31, 2011)District Judge Richard J. Sull

November 12, 2007 |

Directory of NLJ 250 branch offices

34 minute read
November 07, 2009 |

Branch Offices of the NLJ 250 Firms

37 minute read

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