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Michael is an associate based in our New York office who focuses primarily on securities and financial cases; he also works on product liability and patent litigation.
Michael has been associated with the Firm since October 2007. Among the securities/financial matters on which he has worked, Michael participates extensively in the Firm's representation of Schwab in litigation against Bank of America, as well as in litigation against numerous major financial institutions arising from their alleged manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and in litigation based on financial institutions' alleged misrepresentations in connection with Schwab's investment in residential mortgage-backed securities. Michael is also part of the team representing several Ohio state pension funds in potentially groundbreaking litigation against the major credit rating agencies based on their allegedly artificially inflated ratings of asset-backed securities. Michael also worked closely with the Firm's Managing Partner Steven Fineman to represent several New York City pension funds in litigation arising from the massive fraud at National Century Financial Enterprises, Inc., which resulted in significant recoveries to the pension funds.
Additionally, Michael served as counsel of record (working with Lieff Cabraser partner Daniel Chiplock) on behalf of the National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys (NASCAT) in Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton Co., et al., No.09-1403, to present NASCAT's arguments to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of plaintiffs, regarding the proper standard for class certification in "fraud-on-the-market" securities cases. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in plaintiffs' favor.
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