Milberg

Milberg LLP (formerly known as Milberg Weiss LLP and Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP) is a US plaintiffs' law firm, established in 1965 and based in New York City. It has mounted many class action cases on behalf of investors, and has been recognized as among the leading firms in its field by the National Law Journal, RiskMetrics Group, and Law360.

The firm and some of its partners were charged in 2006 with offering improper inducements to plaintiffs. The case against the firm itself was dismissed in 2008, but that same year four partners pleaded guilty to charges, and many others had already left the firm.

The firm was founded in 1965 by attorneys Larry Milberg and Melvyn I. Weiss. In its early years, its founding partners built a new area of legal practice in representing shareholders’ interests under the then recently amended Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which allowed securities fraud cases, among others, to proceed as class actions.

Based in New York City and with offices in Los Angeles and Detroit, Milberg is widely known as one of the first law firms to represent investors in class actions in federal courts. It focuses on litigation involving securities fraud, shareholder derivative cases, bankruptcy, consumer protection, antitrust, insurance, mass tort/environment, False Claims Act (Qui Tam), human rights, employee rights and ERISA. In addition, Milberg prosecutes general complex commercial litigation involving contract disputes, business torts, and disputes involving the Uniform Commercial Code, business dissolutions, and other commercial and financial relationships.

Before its split in May 2004 with the firm now known as Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, it was the largest plaintiff law firm in the United States, with over 200 attorneys, responsible, at least in part, for over 50 percent of all securities class action cases settled in 2002.

According to the firm's website, Milberg currently employs 75 attorneys. Industry trade site Lawyers.com lists 63 profiles of Milberg attorneys.

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