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Biography

Title:	Senior Founding Partner
Firm:	Bernstein Litowitz
Law School:	Columbia Law School
Graduation:	1971
List:	Lawdragon's 100 Lawyers you need to know in Securities Litigation

Notable case(s), past or present (include date if possible):
WorldCom Securities Litigation (2005). Four weeks of trial and three years of litigation resulting in settlements of over $6.15 billion, including unprecedented out-of-pocket director payments of nearly $25 million. Cendant Securities Litigation (2000). Settlements of over $3.3 billion. Third-largest recovery in history. Nortel Securities Litigation (2006). Recoveries of $1.3 billion (part of a $2.7 billion global settlement). McKesson Securities Litigation (2005 - 2007). Total recoveries of over $1.04 billion. Roberts v. Texaco, Inc. (Texaco Discrimination Litigation) (1997). Described as the most significant race discrimination settlement in history. Monetary settlement of over $170 million, as well as the creation of a Task Force at Texaco to monitor its diversity programs for five years.

Selected clients:
New York State Common Retirement Fund Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board California Public Employees Retirement System Treasury of the State of New Jersey and its Division of Investment Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi Ohio Public Employees Retirement System

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Best moment of career:
When Paul Bernstein, Ron Litowitz, Ed Grossmann and I formed the firm 25 years ago.

Worst moment of career:
Paul Bernstein's premature death eighteen years ago at age 60, immediately after successfully prosecuting the Washington Public Power Supply System litigation for 7 years, at the time the most significant securities class action recovery in history.

Attorney you most admire:
Prof. James Liebman for his work on death penalty cases. Robert Morgenthau for his tireless work as a prosecutor.

Favorite activities (besides the Law):
Photography, travel and spending time with my grandchildren.

Favorite Sports Team (if you have one), or Favorite Theater or Museum, etc:
Museum of Modern Art and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and, of course, The Yankees.

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