Practice Areas & Industries: Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Securities litigation has been one of the cornerstones of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro's practice since the inception of our firm. We have recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for institutional and individual investors defrauded by unscrupulous management of publicly held corporations.

In light of recent cases, such as Enron, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro's work is even more well recognized as crucial to protecting the rights of investors.

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Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro provides unparalleled services to combat corporate fraud. Our attorneys are experts in a wide array of issues unique to specific industries. We also use highly experienced experts in a variety of fields as an integral part of the prosecution team.

According to the former Chairman of the SEC, Arthur Levitt, "I fear we are witnessing an erosion in the quality of earnings, and therefore the quality of financial reporting. Managing may be giving way to manipulation; Integrity may be losing out to illusion." 1

We recognize that investing is, by nature, a speculative business involving a wide variety of risks. But no money manager or individual investor should be forced to endure undue risk as a result of misreported financial conditions. We vigorously pursue fraud recovery litigation that forces corporations to answer to the investors they have deceived.

Our firm has represented investors in nationwide class actions for securities violations against WPPSS, Boeing, Einstein-Noah Bagel, Boston Chicken, Oppenheimer, Morrison Knudsen, ProCyte, Wall Data, PriceCostco, MK Rail, Bonneville Pacific, Mercer International, NeoRx, Egghead and Omega Environmental.

We currently have securities actions in California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Utah, Tennessee, Texas, Minnesota, New York, and Washington.

¹ The Numbers Game, remarks by Arthur Levitt on September 28, 1998 at the NYU Center for Law and Business.