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5 Jun 2008, 6:20 am
Defendants tend to believe that it is difficult to find a "clean class representative", especially after class action guru-turned-felon William Lerach commented earlier this year that illegal kickbacks were widespread among all class action lawyers. [read post]
1 Jun 2008, 7:39 pm
In February, Walter sentenced Weiss's protege and former partner, William Lerach, to the maximum prison sentence allowed under his plea agreement and criticized prosecutors for proposing a sentence that he considered too lenient. [read post]
21 May 2008, 11:55 pm
Lerach. [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]
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]
1 May 2008, 3:03 pm
The letter highlights comments that former Milberg partner William Lerach made to the WSJ earlier this year: Lerach called his conduct an â [read post]
27 Mar 2008, 4:43 am
The three bills were introduced last month at about the same time that securities plaintiff's lawyer William Lerach was sentenced to two years in the federal government's kickback probe of his former firm, now called Milberg. [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 9:25 am
Former partners William Lerach, David Bershad, and Steven Schulman pleaded guilty in 2007. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 10:04 pm
Class action lawyers who went after the various deep pockets in the Enron Corp. collapse -- the team was led by now-disgraced William Lerach -- want what may be a world record fee for an action of the sort. [read post]
15 Mar 2008, 10:24 am
To call this a bad week for avenging lawyers would be an understatement, given the trifecta of collapses featuring Eliot Spitzer, William Lerach and now Dickie Scruggs with in days of each other. [read post]
29 Feb 2008, 2:16 am
A special master recommended that a motion for class certification be denied without prejudice so that new class counsel can be appointed.Coughlin Stoia was named Lerach Coughlin prior to William Lerach's guilty plea in a scheme to pay named plaintiffs for their participation in lawsuits. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 6:00 pm
Earlier this month, a prominent former class action attorney, William Lerach, was sentenced to two years in prison for his role in a scheme to pay huge cash kickbacks to class action plaintiffs. [read post]
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]
15 Feb 2008, 8:53 pm
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr., Gregory Reyes, William Lerach, and a whole host of others... [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 12:14 am
Contrite Lerach Gets Maximum Two-Year Term
The Recorder
In the end, Los Angeles federal Judge John Walter didn't blow up William Lerach's plea deal. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 12:46 pm
Thanks to some overzealous redactions, it appeared that America's once and possibly future First Couple were among the 159 individuals who had written letters urging lenience for securities lawyer and convicted kick-backer William Lerach. [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]
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]
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]
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]
