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30 Dec 2006, 6:03 am
Building on Ted's posting, today's Wall $treet Journal reports that the main plaintiff in a securities fraud suit in Dallas has asked the court to fire William Lerach and his firm, Lerach Coughlin Stola Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP, because... [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 11:10 pm
Former class action securities plaintiffs' lawyer William Lerach finally cut a non-cooperation plea deal (Nathan Koppel's WSJ Law Blog post is here) to resolve the longstanding criminal investigation into alleged undisclosed payments that Lerach and his firm made to class representatives and co-counsel in cases that they handled. [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]
29 Aug 2007, 6:53 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]
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]
20 Sep 2007, 2:41 am
The plea agreement (available below) of William Lerach, the... [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 11:12 am
Selvin's sources, Lerach faces up to two years in prison and "will pay a fine of several million dollars under the terms of the deal. [read post]
27 Feb 2007, 2:12 pm
William Lerachs firm is out, and David Boies’s firm is in. [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 5:16 pm
Lerachs defense attorney was not immediately available for comment on Friday, Reuters said. [read post]
23 Oct 2007, 12:27 pm
In Coke Tries New Defense: Firm Hopes to Use Plea in Lerach Case To Its Advantage, by Peter Latman, the Wall Street Journal reports Coca-Cola Co.'s attempt to use the impending criminal guilty plea by plaintiffs' lawyer William Lerach to... [read post]
4 Dec 2006, 10:23 pm
So rare and so useful when it happens: "The federal judge overseeing the Enron shareholders' class-action lawsuit dismissed a $1 billion claim brought by plaintiffs' lawyer William Lerach against investment firm Alliance Capital Management. [read post]
29 Dec 2006, 10:01 pm
For class-action lawyer William Lerach, battles with adversaries are all in a day's work. [read post]
28 Dec 2006, 1:15 pm
For class-action lawyer William Lerach, battles with adversaries are all in a day’s work. [read post]
11 Feb 2008, 1:12 am
" The letter containing Lerach's comments on the scope of the secret payments was among those filed under seal, but an excerpt from it appeared in a defense pleading that was not properly redacted. [read post]
16 Mar 2010, 10:26 pm by Gordon Smith
Berwin Professor of Corporate Law, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law William S. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 6:33 am
"Class-action lawyer could face charges; A partner's possible plea deal feeds rumors that William Lerach may be indicted soon": This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 6:13 pm
In trying to pick apart William Lerach's somewhat cryptic confirmation Friday that he is, indeed, "considering retirement," a good place to start is a sealed court ruling that came down the day before Thanksgiving last year. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 3:15 pm
On the day after reports of William Lerach's impending guilty plea, he prevailed for his clients in an appeal from an order dismissing a securities fraud complaint. [read post]