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 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., No. C-84-20148(A)-JW (N.D. Cal.). Formerly, Mr. Coughlin was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C. and San Diego 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, et al., 86-3056-SWR, as well as an infamous oil fraud scheme resulting in a complex murder-for-hire trial,
United States v. Boeckman, et al., 87-0676-K. Mr. Coughlin has instructed on the current state of securities class action litigation in light of U.S. Congressional action aimed at weakening U.S. securities laws.
While at Milberg Weiss, Mr. Coughlin handled a number of large securities cases involving such companies as IDB Communications Group ($75 million settlement); Unocal ($47.5 million recovery); Media Vision ($25 million recovery); Sunrise Medical ($20 million settlement); Sybase ($28.5 million settlement); Conner Peripherals ($26 million); and 3Com ($259 million). Mr. Coughlin also prosecuted a number of actions against the tobacco industry which resulted in the phase-out of the Joe Camel Campaign and a $12.5 billion recovery to the cities and counties of California. Mr. Coughlin's recent trials include a RICO case against the tobacco industry (March 1999) and securities cases which went to trial against Wells Fargo (October 1999) and California Amplifier (February 2000).
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