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2 Mar 2009, 1:47 am
  Subprime-Related Derivative Lawsuit Largely Dismissed: In a detailed and painstaking February 24, 2009 opinion (here), Chancellor William Chandler dismissed the bulk of the consolidated subprime-related derivative suit pending against Citigroup, as nominal defendant, and certain of the company’s directors and officers, in Delaware Chancery Court. [read post]
25 Feb 2009, 5:01 am
William Lerach):  The panel generally agreed that there would be no significant decrease is securities filings now that Bill Lerach and Mel Weiss have left the bar. [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 11:43 pm
     Day Two - Thursday, February 26, 2009 Rise and Fall of William Lerach:  PLUS presents a documentary created for its 2008 International Conference about the rise and fall of infamous plaintiffs'  attorney William Lerach. [read post]
30 Dec 2008, 5:27 pm
Keker supplied four letters from Lerach's doctors attesting to Lerach's alcohol problem. [read post]
22 Dec 2008, 9:32 pm
But for white-collar criminals like class-action lawyer William Lerach, serving time in a kickback scheme, it can halve a sentence. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 4:21 pm
" Other Potential Reforms At the same time, it appears unlikely that Congress will approve legislation inspired by the Milberg Weiss kickback probe, which ultimately resulted in guilty pleas by William Lerach, Melvyn Weiss, and two other former partners of the once-dominant plaintiffs' law firm. [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 1:02 pm
  The session was preceded with a fascinating video created for the event entitled "The Rise and Fall of William Lerach," which detailed the career and criminal prosecution of former plaintiffs’ securities bar titan Bill Lerach. [read post]
20 Oct 2008, 9:12 am
As for Callan (pictured, right), a former Simpson Thacher tax lawyer (Harvard, NYU law) who left Simpson for Lehman in 1995, the AmLaw Daily reports that she’s turned to Proskauer Rose’s Robert Cleary (pictured, left; William & Mary, Fordham law). [read post]
23 Sep 2008, 9:54 am
William Lerach carrying boxes of documents into federal court in Houston to file a suit on behalf of Enron shareholders is one of the iconic images of that period.But the massive scale of government intervention may limit the scope of private action in the current crisis. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 9:09 pm
The now-retired judge, Verla Sue Holland, and the onetime prosecutor, Thomas O'Connell, "admitted under oath that they had" Criminal Justice William Lerach in Prison Lockdown for Alleged Football Tickets Offer Sep 9, 2008, 06:04 am CDT "Former lawyer William Lerach, serving time for paying kickbacks to lead plaintiffs in securities class actions, is now accused of offering another kind of incentive, this time to a prison guard: his San Diego… [read post]
18 Aug 2008, 5:04 pm
The Examiner newspaper's new Sunday edition has a package on William Lerach, the trial lawyer extraordinaire now imprisoned for the Milberg Weiss class-action fraud. [read post]
17 Aug 2008, 4:09 am
The lawsuit against Frost was filed by Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, a class-action law firm that is branching out into patent litigation, and which was once run by William Lerach. [read post]
26 Jun 2008, 8:03 pm
On May 19, William Lerach, formerly of the law firm of Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach LLP, began his prison sentence for his role in a $250 million illegal kickback scheme. [read post]
25 Jun 2008, 4:00 pm
Wigand: When I first learned of the issue that has caused Dickie’s current situation, I was shocked as well as others that know or have worked with him. [read post]
17 Jun 2008, 9:50 am
” As part of the agreement, the firm has admitted that it paid kickbacks to clients from 1979 to 2005 — earning about $239 million in fees in those cases — and that seven former partners — Melvyn Weiss, William Lerach, David Bershad, Steven Schulman and three unnamed former partners — paid kickbacks to named plaintiffs in more than 165 lawsuits. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 8:25 pm
Many newspapers (here's a sample) report that William Lerach (see the summary of Wally's superb Conde Nast posting on this fiend below), now serving a two-year prison term for conspiracy in the federal minimum security prison at Lompoc, California, has... [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 2:37 pm
The editors at Conde Nast Portfolio were kind enough to invite me to contribute a rebuttal, which is now online, to William Lerach's egregious apologia pro crookery sua. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 5:16 pm
Lerachs defense attorney was not immediately available for comment on Friday, Reuters said. [read post]