William Lerach and his West Coast colleagues officially split from Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach. Lerach’s half would be called Lerach Coughlin Stoia & Robbins and Milberg Weiss would now be known as Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman. “We were very committed to part consensually without suing each other,” Lerach said.
Everyone was trying to mend fences following a dispute last month between the public defender’s office and a new San Francisco Superior Court judge. Public Defender Jeff Adachi had decided April 12 to exercise a peremptory challenge for all matters before Judge Suzanne Ramos Bolanos. But for now his office was invoking the challenges only for trials before Bolanos, a former federal prosecutor. “Our intention was never to do anything disrespectful,” said Chief Attorney Teresa Caffese.
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