The firm also has a major debt recovery and litigation practice, acting for banks and finance houses.
Powers, the head of the securities litigation practice group at Baker Hostetler.
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The firm plans to increase its health-care and energy lobbying practice as well as its Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement and white-collar litigation practice.
The attorney tried more than 300 cases in 21 states, his family said, before retiring from his litigation practice in 2009 to focus full-time on his mediation and arbitration practice.
Since choosing to leave a 25-year litigation practice by starting a mediation career six years ago, I have spilled thousands of digital words and spoken to, trained and lectured thousands of men and women about the folly of zero-sum games.
After six years of litigation, including extensive motion practice, an appeal to the Second Circuit, remand, more motion practice, and discovery, lead counsel learned that the lead plaintiff never purchased any of the securities at issue in this action.
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The bill is designed to end the double-, triple-, and quadruple-dipping that is common practice in the asbestos litigation industry.
Congress passed the Public Securities Litigation Reform Act to halt the abusive practice of paying kickbacks to plaintiffs in securities cases, which sent former top plaintiff lawyers Bill Lerach and Mel Weiss to jail.
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While in private practice, Hostin specialized in the litigation of employment, securities and white-collar criminal.
She concentrates her practice in tax controversy, tax litigation and criminal tax matters.
For example, the DOL is just beginning to address older issues such as revenue sharing, a practice which is at the heart of the recent litigation.
McGladrey is the next tier public accounting firm with the alternative practice structure and exposure to Madoff and Petters fraud litigation as well as responsibility for the Sentinel fraud.
L. in Tampa, Florida whose practice includes white-collar crime and securities and financial litigation.
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This article is by Jonathan Green, counsel in the Complex Commercial Litigation Department, and James L. Athas, who focuses his practice on government and internal investigations, at the law firm Kaye Scholer.
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Indirect purchasers who in many cases actually paid the inflated prices are left to sue in state court, where the class-action attorneys have developed a specialized practice to extract an extra layer of revenue from this litigation.
Lead plaintiffs are supposed to hire attorneys and oversee the litigation on behalf of the rest of the class, although in practice it usually works the other way around, with the lawyers using portfolio-monitoring software to identify an institutional investor with a loss and then recruiting that investor to represent the class.
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However, this reform should not lead to as extensive class actions litigation as in the US, noted Laurent Godfroid, partner at competition practice of Gide Loyrette Nouel.
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L. in Tampa, Florida whose practice includes white-collar crime, securities law, and financial litigation.
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