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EDITORIAL REVIEW Coughlin continues to count up big wins, including a $7.2B settlement for Enron shareholders, of which his firm kept a tidy $688M. —2008 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
You can’t top Coughlin, who has juggled the nation’s biggest securities claims against companies including Apple, Boeing, Coke, Enron and HealthSouth — Lawdragon,
January 2008
The steady force of the Lerach firm, he nailed Joe Camel for $12.5 billion on behalf of Californians, while scaring up millions from 3Com, Unocal and IDB. — Lawdragon,
February 2007
Alcatel and America West so feared him they settled right before trial. Next up: California Amplifier and Wells Fargo. — Lawdragon,
October 2006
Patrick J. Coughlin is the San Francisco-based leader of Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins and the firm's unquestioned No. 2 star behind controversial fellow name partner William Lerach. But among some defense attorneys in the securities arena, Coughlin has a reputation for being more of "a lawyer's lawyer" than Lerach, less confrontational but more skilled inside the confines of a courtroom. Coughlin picked up his skills as a trial lawyer as an assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting white-collar fraud cases, and in the private arena successfully has sued the likes of Apple Computer and 3Com. Coughlin also earns praise for taking on big tobacco in a case that helped end the Joe Camel advertising campaign. — Lawdragon,
October 2005
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PATRICK J. COUGHLIN is the Firm’s Chief Trial Counsel, and has been lead counsel for several major securities matters, including one of the largest class action securities cases to go to trial, In re Apple Computer Sec. Litig., Case No. C-84-20148(A)-JW (N.D. Cal.).
Additional prominent securities class actions prosecuted by Mr. Coughlin include the Enron litigation, in which $7.3 billion was recovered; the Qwest litigation, in which a $445 million recovery was obtained; and the HealthSouth litigation, in which a partial settlement of $554 million has been recovered to date. Formerly, Mr. Coughlin was an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia and the Southern District of California, handling complex white-collar fraud matters. During this time, Mr. Coughlin helped try one of the largest criminal RICO cases ever prosecuted by the United States, United States v. Brown, Case No. 86-3056-SWR, as well as an infamous oil fraud scheme resulting in a complex murder-for-hire trial, United States v. Boeckman, Case No. 87-0676-K. Mr. Coughlin’s additional trials involving securities violations include cases against Wells Fargo and California Amplifier. Both cases settled in trial. Cases that settled on the eve of trial include cases against Alcatel and America West. Mr. Coughlin has tried more than 50 jury and non-jury trials, including a large private RICO trial against the major tobacco companies on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Ohio Taft-Hartley health and welfare fund participants. Mr. Coughlin also helped end the Joe Camel ad campaign, a cartoon ad campaign that targeted children and secured a $12.5-billion recovery for the cities and counties of California in the landmark 1998 state settlement with the tobacco companies.
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