Practice Areas - Securities Litigation
- Litigation
- Corporate Governance
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- Financial Institutions
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| University | Bates College, B.A., cum laude |
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| Law School | Columbia University, J.D. |
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| Admitted | 1973, New York; 1974, District of Columbia |
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| Biography | Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 1971-1973. Notes and Comments Editor, Columbia Law Review. Law Clerk to the Hon. William H. Timbers, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1973-1974. Special Assistant Counsel, United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 1981. Special Counsel, Congress of the United States, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, 1983. Selected by the Washington Business Journal as the Top Corporate Litigator in Washington, 2005. Selected as one of top ten Leading Lawyers in Business Litiigation by Legal Times, 2007. |
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| Reported Cases | In re Securities And Exchange Commission v. KPMG et al., (S.D.N.Y.); In re Royal Ahold /U.S. Foodservice Securities and Erisa Litigation (D,Md.); In re Haliburton Company Securities Litigation (N.D. Tex.); In re Quest Communications International Securities Litigation (D.Colo); In re Enron Corp. Securities, Derivative and Erisa Litigation (N.D. Tex.); In re Reynnolds and Reynolds Securities and Derivative Litigation (S.D. Ohio); In Re Flag Securities and Derivative Litigation (S.D.N.Y.); In re Kroger Company Securities Litigation (S.D. Ohio); In re Sunterra Corp. Securities Litigation (M.D. Fla.); In re Speedway Motorsports Derivative Litigation (Del.). |
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| ISLN | 903940892 |
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Supreme Court Limits Scope of Rule 10b-5 “Maker” LiabilityJohn A. Freedman,Richard L. Jacobson,Scott B. Schreiber,James W. Thomas,Michael D. Trager, June 17, 2011 On June 13, 2011, in Janus Capital Group, Inc, et al. v. First Derivative Traders, No. 09-525, a divided Supreme Court held 5-4 that only the speaker to which a statement is specifically attributed can be liable for purposes of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rule 10b-5. The majority...
The Supreme Court Rejects Fifth Circuit’s Loss Causation Test as a Prerequisite to Obtaining Class Certification in Section 10(b) CasesJohn A. Freedman,Kavita Kumar Puri,Scott B. Schreiber,James W. Thomas,Michael D. Trager, June 8, 2011 On June 6, 2011, in Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co., the Supreme Court unanimously held that plaintiffs do not need to prove loss causation at the class certification stage of a securities fraud litigation. In a short opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court rejected the...
SEC Approves Final Rules for Implementation of Dodd-Frank Whistleblower ProgramElizabeth J. Betta,John A. Freedman,Drew A. Harker,Matthew D. Keiser,Scott B. Schreiber,Richard P. Swanson,Michael D. Trager, May 31, 2011 Employers subject to the regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should be aware that on May 25, 2011, the SEC, by a 3-2 party-line vote, approved final rules to implement the whistleblower program established pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection... |
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