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21 Sep 2007, 4:48 am
John Edwards’ presidential campaign has donated to charity $4,600 in contributions from William S. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 12:13 pm
Lerach pleaded guilty to a single count of giving an improper payment to a plaintiff.Checking his famous bravado at the courtroom door, the former securities class action king expressed humble regret as Walter reluctantly accepted the deal hashed out between Lerach and federal prosecutors.Lerach's lawyer, John Keker of San Francisco's Keker & Van Nest, had asked that Lerach serve six months in prison and six months' home … [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 5:31 pm
After seven years, L.A. federal prosecutors are about to put famed plaintiff lawyer William Lerach in federal prison. [read post]
22 Mar 2010, 4:52 pm by Cal Law
[Cynthia Foster] The freshly-freed William  Lerach has found a way to fill his time, after pleading guilty to paying kickbacks to plaintiffs in securities class actions: public speaker. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 1:49 pm by Carter Wood
William Lerach, who made hundreds of millions of dollars in class-action securities litigation and then went to prison, was one of scores of speakers today at America's Future Now! [read post]
29 Aug 2007, 2:47 am
Famed class action attorney William Lerach is stepping down from his firm as of August 31 in the midst of a drawn-out federal investigation of kickbacks paid to plaintiffs through his former firm, Milberg Weiss. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 12:11 pm
William Lerach, a former partner at a prestigious New York law firm, was sentenced Monday to two years in federal prison for his role in a lucrative kickback scheme involving class-action lawsuits against some of the nation’s biggest corporations. [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 10:57 am
The Washington Post has reported that prominent class action attorney Williams S. [read post]
10 Aug 2010, 4:00 pm by Miriam Baer
  The federal judge who heard his motion was particularly upset with Lerach, voicing discontent with Lerach's apparent lack of remorse (in contrast to the remorse he allegedly showed at sentencing) and with the general nature of Lerach's community service to date. [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]
11 Aug 2010, 10:00 am by admin
Disgraced plaintiffs attorney William Lerach pleaded guilty in 2007 to a charge of conspiring to obstruct justice and make false statements in many of his law firm’s class actions. [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 6:22 am
Following up on yesterday's post concerning plaintiffs' securities lawyer William Lerach's expected guilty plea:  Today's Washington Post has this article discussing Lerach's plea to one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice and Lerach's impact in the legal world. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 9:33 am
Here's an excerpt: Noted securities lawyer William Lerach is set to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy in the criminal case... [read post]
29 Aug 2007, 6:46 am
Law.com reports in its summary:Renowned plaintiffs attorney William Lerach, lead partner at Lerach Coughlin, announced Tuesday he's stepping down from the firm he started when he split off the West Coast offices of what is now Milberg Weiss. [read post]
17 Sep 2007, 5:50 pm
Lerach's fall signals a flood of similar criminal charges. [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 12:13 pm
Today's edition of The Washington Post includes a surprise -- an op-ed by William S. [read post]