Stephen R. Basser, a partner in Barrack Rodos & Bacine’s San Diego office, joined the firm in 1994. Steve attended American
University in Washington, D.C. graduating with honors in 1973. Steve attended Temple University School of Law where he was
awarded the honor of “Highest Grade and Distinguished Class Performance” by its nationally renowned trial litigation program,
receiving his J.D. in 1976,
cum laude.
After graduating law school, Steve embarked upon a career as a trial lawyer, initially specializing in aviation, product
liability and medical malpractice litigation with a major Philadelphia firm and later, a small nationally prominent firm in
Philadelphia specializing in high profile, complex civil matters. In addition to representing political subdivisions and
elected officials, Steve represented several hospitals, health care professionals and organizations. Since 1985, Steve has
concentrated on the prosecution of complex civil litigation matters, especially those involving corporate fraud, corruption
and the violation of securities and antitrust laws. Steve’s extensive experience prosecuting securities class actions and
derivative shareholder actions at BR&B includes actions against Pfizer Inc., Procyte Corp., Wall Data, Corp,
Louisiana-Pacific Corp., Samsonite Corp., TriTeal Corp., Sybase, Inc., Inspire Corp., Silicon Graphics, Inc., Orthologic
Corp,. Premier Laser, Inc., Adobe Corp., Peoplesoft Corp., Hi/Fn, Inc. Safeskin Corp. and Informix Corp. He served as a lead
counsel in cases such as
In re Applied Micro Circuits Corp. Securities Litigation, before the Honorable Roger T.
Benitez in the Southern District of California, and
In re McKesson HBOC Inc. Securities Litigation, before the
Honorable Ronald H. Whyte in the Northern District of California.
Steve was the lead attorney in
In re Chiron Corp Shareholder Litigation, Case No. RG04180801, before the Honorable
Ronald M. Sabraw in the California Superior Court for Alameda County, in which an outstanding result was achieved for the
shareholder class, securing a settlement valued in excess of $800 million. Steve was the lead trial attorney in
In re
Apollo Group Inc. Securities Litigation, Master File No. CV-04-2147 PHX-JAT (District of Arizona), before the Honorable
James A. Teilborg, which was tried to a federal jury from November 2007 until the jury returned a unanimous verdict for
investors on January 16, 2008. Steve developed and implemented the extraordinarily successful litigation strategy and
evidentiary presentation in
Apollo and gave the opening and closing arguments to the jury that resulted in the largest
post-PSLRA securities litigation jury verdict and one of the largest such verdicts in history. Judge Teilborg commented on
the record that investors were “incredibly well-represented.”
Steve also has extensive experience prosecuting antitrust class actions, and is presently acting as a lead counsel in the
Thomas & Thomas Rodmakers, Inc. v. Newport Adhesives and Composites, Inc., et al., No. CV-99-07796-GHK(Ctx), before
the Honorable Florence Marie Cooper in the Central District of California, Western Division. Steve has successfully tried
numerous civil jury and non-jury cases to verdict as lead trial counsel and has also successfully argued appellate matters.
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