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18 Feb 2008, 7:00 am
Given what's known now about how Lerach operated his law firm, it's hard to say that the perception is only spin.Mencimer, though, gives too much credit to Lerach's self-serving "corporate crime fighter" identity. [read post]
2 Dec 2006, 12:48 pm
"In Unusual Ruling, Law Firm Is Told to Pay Opponent's Legal Fees in Enron Case": The New York Times today contains an article that begins, "In a decision that she conceded flies in the face of previous rulings by other courts, a federal judge in Houston has ordered the law firm of William S. [read post]
3 Dec 2006, 10:28 am
The suit was filed by attorney William Lerach of Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP. [read post]
29 May 2003, 11:01 am
Today's Pitt News reports on William Lerach's prediction that corporate [read post]
10 May 2008, 9:58 pm
Tulsa settlement planner Robert Risk's February 13th "man of class and grace", disgraced class action lawyer William Lerach, reports to Federal Prison on May 19, 2008 after pleading guilty to charges of criminal conspiracy in conjunction with a class action scheme. [read post]
24 May 2006, 2:11 pm
Lead plaintiff's attorney William Lerach said the money will be paid as soon as possible to shareholders, with the Canadian Imperial Bank of [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 5:16 am
Citing numlerous instances of CEO robbing the public coffers with huge payoffs to self after losing billions of shareholder $$$, so also asks William Lerach, Plaintiff's lawyer and shareholder advocate, here, as he prepares to go to jail to serve a one year sentence for boldly stepping over the line in his advocacy, as he put it: in my [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 12:10 pm
"Lawyer Sentenced in Kickback Scheme": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "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 May 2008, 9:05 pm
  Senator Cornyn’s bill, not coincidentally,  was introduced  on the same day that class action attorney William Lerach reported to prison for a 2-year term for paying illegal kickbacks to securities class action [...] [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 1:40 am by Ted Frank
William Lerach is going to teach at a law school and work for a “progressive think-tank. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 8:17 pm
First, securities class action king William Lerach pleads guilty to paying off a named plaintiff. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 5:54 am
" And at WSJ.com, you can access Peter Lattman's interview via an item headlined "'I Was Guilty': Iconic plaintiffs lawyer William Lerach looks back on his past and considers what lies ahead. [read post]
15 Apr 2010, 6:15 am by Walter Olson
Tags: Bill Lerach, law schools, Schools for Misrule Related posts Schools for Misrule — and a bleg on law school clinics (9) Beyond parody: Lerach plans to teach law at Irvine (2) Yogurt marketing class action (1) William Lerach and Milberg Weiss (0) What happened to the slavery reparations movement? [read post]
22 May 2010, 6:20 pm
" In this duality, the book reports on class action securities lawyer William Lerach's simultaneous climb to pinnacle of his civil law niche in pursuit of Enron, while descending to the nadir of the criminal law as the target of the federal investigation that ultimately led to his felony conviction and substantial prison time.Since Lerach cooperated with the writers, the book provides many fascinating details that an "unauthorized" book would… [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 10:03 pm
Critics long derided the federal investigation of Milberg Weiss as slow to produce results, but things are moving along at a brisk clip now, with an indictment charging the nation's best-known class-action securities lawyer with conspiracy, racketeering, obstruction of justice and making false statements, just after his best-known former colleague at the firm, William Lerach, agreed to cop a plea deal. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 9:18 am by David Lat
Here’s a description of Lerachs proposed class (see here, page 3): Dean Erwin Chemerinsky has asked Mr. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 10:12 am
Wonder what's happening with that Milberg Weiss investigation? [read post]