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August 29, 2011 |

Hagens Berman attacks 'copycat' Apple antitrust claims

Hagens Berman has moved to intervene in at least five "copycat" lawsuits in federal court in New York. The firm said it hopes to consolidate all the litigation in the Northern District of California, where it is pursuing a price fixing case against electronic book publishers and retailers.
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March 30, 2010 |

Justices Hostile to 'Foreign-Cubed' Securities Cases

U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared hostile on Monday toward so-called "foreign-cubed" securities fraud class actions in which the plaintiffs and stock issuers are foreign and the alleged fraud took place on foreign soil.
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Meserole v. Sony Corp. of America Inc., 08 Cv. 8987
Publication Date: 2009-05-29
Practice Area: Consumer Protection
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District Judge Robert P. Patterson U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Attorney for Plaintiff: Leigh Smith Milberg LLP New York, NY/p

August 26, 2009 |

Role of the Event Study in Loss Causation Analysis

Lawyers and the courts are increasingly focused on the proper methodology for determining whether investor losses are caused by fraud. This new scrutiny has highlighted the benefits -- and limitations -- of the event study, long the mainstay for loss causation analysis. While event studies are an indispensable tool, say attorneys Martis Alex and Michael W. Stocker, plaintiffs and defendants alike must be mindful of the judicial, statistical and logical limitations on the use of these statistical analyses.
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December 15, 2004 |

Fights Over Pensions Grow, and Firms are Wading In

Employees who squirreled away portions of their paychecks for retirement only to have their plans for the future dashed by stock scandals and employer bankruptcies are boosting business for attorneys scuffling over who is to blame. The defendants are often huge publicly traded companies, either suffering or bankrupt. And whether the actions involve 401(k) plans or traditional pension plans, an increasing number of attorneys are working on cases where a company's retirement well is running low.
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October 16, 2007 |

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December 01, 2009 |

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August 12, 2010 |

$125 Million Shareholder Settlement in New Century Financial Collapse

A federal judge in Los Angeles has granted preliminary approval of a $125 million shareholder settlement involving the former directors and officers of New Century Financial Corp., one of the first mortgage lenders to collapse during the credit crisis.
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Supreme Court Eliminates F-Cubed Securities Class Actions: Record Vivendi Jury Verdict Appears Doomed
Publication Date: 2010-06-24
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After a hostile reception by the Justices at oral arguments, plaintiffs lawyers doubted the high court would endorse U.S. securities claims by foreign investors who bought shares of foreign companies on foreign exchanges. They just prayed the damage would be limited. Those hopes were dashed by the Court's unanimous ruling Thursday. We've got analysis from the lawyers who argued both sides at the Court.

June 11, 2012 |

Balancing Conscience, Confidentiality For Attorney Whistleblowers

Attorneys?in-house and outside counsel alike?often stand at the crossroads of corporate misconduct. At one time, an attorney's duty to maintain corporate clients' confidences was thought to be virtually absolute.
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