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Bernstein Liebhard LLP
Brian E. Lehman
Mr. Lehman received his bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Michigan in 1996, and graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 2000. While at the University of Chicago, Mr. Lehman was co-founder and articles editor for Chicago Journal of International Law as well as a member of the University of Chicago Legal Forum. Following law school, Mr. Lehman clerked in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Mr. Lehman has significant experience in multi-district litigation and securities fraud class actions. In addition, among other things, from 2007 to 2008, Mr. Lehman assisted Judge Shira A. Scheindlin under Rule 53 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in In Re MTBE Products Liability Litigation, a mass tort case in the Southern District of New York.
Mr. Lehman has also published a number of articles including:
- The Equal Protection Problem in Sexual Harassment Doctrine, 10
Colum. J. Gender & L. 125 (2000) (available on Westlaw & Lexis) - Why Title VII Should Prohibit All Workplace Sexual Harassment,
12 Yale J. L. & Feminism 225 (2000) (available on Westlaw & Lexis) - Does Discrimination Against Gay Men and Lesbians Count As Sex
Discrimination? The Supreme Court May Soon Give An Answer, FindLaw (with Joanna Grossman), March 25, 2003 http://writ.news.findlaw.com/grossman/20030325.html - Abusing the Material Witness Statute: Why Detaining Grand Jury
Witnesses Violates The Fourth Amendment, FindLaw, May 06, 2003 http://writ.corporate.findlaw.com/commentary/20030506_lehman.html - Can You Sue Someone In Fifty Words Or Less? Why Plaintiffs'
Lawyers Ignore The Supreme Court's Instructions To Keep Complaints Brief, FindLaw, June 17, 2003 http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20030617_lehman.html - Misinterpretation of fraud statute led WorldCom case
dismissal, CNN.com, September 5, 2003
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/09/05/findlaw.analysis.lehman.worldcom/index.html - The Incentive To Commit Securities Fraud Under Automatic
Trading Plans, Securities Law360, July 07, 2006 http://securities.law360.com/Secure/ViewArticle.aspx?id=7385 - Federal Preemption Of State Payment Requirements In Securities
Class Actions, Securities Law360 (with Rachel Kopp), July 18, 2006 http://securities.law360.com/Secure/ViewArticle.aspx?id=7581 - Lower Courts Ignore Supreme Court's Test for Materiality,
Securities Law360, August 25, 2006
http://securities.law360.com/secure/ ViewArticle.aspx?Id=9238 - One Day in September, New York Law Journal (with Judge Shira
A. Scheindlin), September 25, 2006
http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/PubArticleNY.jsp?hubtype=featuredColumnsArchive&id=1158915930104 - Asserting the Fifth Amendment in Civil Securities Litigation,
Securities Law360, October 24, 2006
http://securities.law360.com/secure/ViewArticle.aspx?Id=12367
Mr. Lehman is admitted to the Bar of the State of Connecticut.
