Jeffrey M. Haber

Jeffrey M. Haber received his B.S. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1985, graduating magna cum laude, with departmental honors, and as a Phi Beta Kappa.  He received his J.D. in 1988 from Hofstra University School of Law, where he was a notes and comments editor for the International Property Law Journal.  Mr. Haber is recognized as a leading lawyer in securities litigation by Super Lawyers magazine in the Fall 2008 and 2009 editions of New York Super Lawyers.

Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Haber was associated with a Manhattan law firm where he represented plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of complex securities, commodities, and shareholder litigations in state and federal courts across the country.  In 1991, Mr. Haber became associated with, and later a member of, a New York plaintiffs’ firm, Harwood Feffer LLP, where he represented plaintiffs in complex securities and consumer fraud class actions, antitrust class actions, and shareholders’ rights litigation.  In April 2000, Mr. Haber joined the Firm as a partner, concentrating his practice in complex class action litigation involving securities fraud and shareholders’ rights.  In his career, Mr. Haber has been a member of multiple trial teams in civil cases, and has conducted numerous securities arbitrations before the NASD and NYSE.

Mr. Haber has been lead counsel, co-lead counsel, or a member of an executive committee in a number of notable and successful class actions, which collectively resulted in millions of dollars in settlements to the respective classes, including:  In re Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 04-CV-8144 (CM) (S.D.N.Y.) ($400 million recovery); In re Royal Dutch/Shell Transport Securities Litigation (U.S. settlement with a minimum cash value of $130 million, and a contingent value of more than $180 million as well as an additional $28.34 million secured in connection with a related European settlement of $350 million, which the Firm was substantially responsible for obtaining); In re Taxable Municipal Bonds Litigation, No. 90 md 0863 (E.D. La.) ($110 million); In re Banc One Securities Litigation, No. 00-cv-0019 (N.D. Ill.) ($45 million); In re Beazer Homes U.S.A., Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 07-CV- 725 CC (N.D. Ga.) ($30.5 million); In re Lumenis Securities Litigation, No. 02-CV-1989 (S.D.N.Y.) ($20.1 million); In re Gilat Satellite Networks, Ltd. Securities Litigation, No. 02-CV-1510 (E.D.N.Y.) ($20 million); In re JDN Realty Corp. Securities Litigation, No. 00-CV-10192 (N.D. Ga.) ($16.8 million); In re Terayon Communication Systems, Inc. Securities Litigation, No. C-00-1967 (N.D. Cal.) ($15 million); In re Willbros Group. Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 06-CV-1778 (S.D. Tex.) ($10.5 million); and Cheney v. Cyberguard Corp., No. 98-CIV-6879 (S.D. Fla.) ($10 million).

Mr. Haber also has been lead counsel, co-lead counsel, or a member of an executive committee in a number of successful shareholders’ rights litigations, including:  In re The Times Mirror Co. Shareholders Litigation, No. 94-cv-4632 (C.D. Cal.) (settlement benefit in excess of $20 million); In re Home Shopping Network Inc. Derivative Litigation, No. 87-248-CIV-T-13A (M.D. Fla.) (settlement benefit in excess of $20 million); Edge Partners L.P. v. Dockser, No. 95-cv-1818 (D. Md.) (settlement benefit in excess of $11 million); and In re Archer Daniels Midlands Corp. Derivative Litigation, No. 14403 (Del. Ch.) (corporate governance reforms and monetary benefit in excess of $8 million).

Mr. Haber further served as lead counsel in a precedent-setting decision under the Investment Company Act of 1940 regarding the independence of directors serving on multiple boards of mutual funds operated by the same investment company.

Mr. Haber is currently lead counsel in In re Tremont Securities Law, State Law and Insurance Litigation, No. 08-CV-11117 (S.D.N.Y.), in which the Firm represents investors who lost millions of dollars in hedge funds that invested with Bernard L. Madoff, and Durgin v. Mon (In re TOUSA, Inc. Securities Litigation), No. 06-61844 (S.D. Fla.), among other notable securities class actions.  He was also the partner responsible for the day-to-day supervision of In re Royal Dutch/Shell Transport Securities Litigation, No. 04-374 (JAP) (D.N.J.).

Mr. Haber is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Western District of Pennsylvania, the District of Arizona, and is a member of the Securities Litigation Committee of the New York City Bar Association.