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 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. He was named a Super Lawyer by Super Lawyer Magazine in the Fall of 2008.

Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Haber was associated with a New York law firm where he represented plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of complex securities, commodities, and shareholder litigation 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 Bernstein Liebhard LLP 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 Royal Dutch/Shell Transport Securities Litigation (minimum value to the class of U.S. shareholders of $130 million, with a potential value of more than $180 million); In re Taxable Municipal Bonds Litigation ($110 million), In re Banc One Securities Litigation ($45 million settlement), In re Lumenis Securities Litigation ($20.1 million), In re Gilat Satellite Networks, Ltd. Securities Litigation ($20 million), In re JDN Realty Corp. Securities Litigation ($16.8 million), In re Terayon Communication System, Inc. Securities Litigation ($15 million), In re Willbros Group. Inc. Securities Litigation ($10.5 million), and In re Cyberguard Corp. Securities Litigation ($10 million).

Mr. Haber also has been lead counsel, co-lead counsel, or a member of an executive committee in a number of successful shareholder rights' litigations, including: In re The Times Mirror Co. Shareholders Litigation (settlement benefit in excess of $20 million), In re Home Shopping Network Inc. Derivative Litigation (settlement benefit in excess of $20 million), Edge Partners L.P. v. Dockser (settlement benefit in excess of $11 million), and In re Archer Daniels Midlands Corp. Derivative Litigation (settlement 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 Durgin v. Mon, et al. (In re TOUSA, Inc. Securities Litigation) and co-lead counsel in In re: Beazer Homes USA, Inc. Securities Litigation, 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.

Mr. Haber is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Western District of Pennsylvania, and the District of Arizona.  
 

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