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| Practice Areas | Litigation; Securities; Shareholder Derivative Actions; Accountants Malpractice Law; Directors and Officers Liability; Creditors' Rights | | | Education | Brooklyn Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1995, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, B.S., in Economics, 1991 | | | Admitted | 1996, New York; 1997, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York | |
| Memberships | New York State Bar Association. | | | Born | 1969 | | | Biography | Member, Moot Court Honor Society. Law Clerk to the Hon. Steven M. Gold. U.S.M.J., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1995-1996. Named as one of America's top 500 "rising stars" in the legal profession and one of 3000 Leading Plaintiffs' Lawyers in America by Lawdragon magazine. Selected for inclusion in the list of 2006 and 2007 New York Super Lawyers. | | | ISLN | 912717546 | |
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Shining Light On The Practices of Pension
Fund Consultants: Who Are They Really Serving?Gerald H. Silk, Stephen Tountas, September 18, 2009, previously published by The Advocate for Institutional Investors, First Quarter 2004 on January 2004 Pension fund consultants typically advise pension fund systems on critical financial and investment matters and, therefore, often occupy a position that is fiduciary in nature. As Justice Benjamin Cardozo noted, the standard of a fiduciary requires "something stricter than the morals of the...
The Mutual Fund Scandal: Is There No Longer Any Shelter From The Storm?Gerald H. Silk, Joseph Fonti, September 18, 2009, previously published by The Advocate for Institutional Investors, First Quarter 2004 on January 2004 Since the genesis of the mutual fund industry in the 1920s, mutual funds were thought of as a relatively safe investment vehicle for America's small investors. Mutual funds were sold as a limited risk investment which were, in the words of the great poet Bob Dylan, "always safe" and,... |
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