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Rebecca M. Katz
Rebecca M. Katz is a former Senior Counsel in the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where she served for nearly a decade. At the SEC, she prosecuted major securities cases involving insider trading, market manipulation, and accounting fraud. Ms. Katz joined the firm in 2001, and serves on Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation. In that capacity, she has supervised numerous attorneys and legal professionals from more than 20 law firms in the discovery process and the day-to-day management of the litigation. At BL, Ms. Katz is also counsel to lead plaintiff, Employees’ Retirement System of the State of Rhode Island, in In re Security Capital Assurance, Ltd. Securities Litigation.
Before joining BL, she was associated with Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP in their New York office, where she served as Counsel for plaintiff classes in several securities cases, including Dietrich v. Bauer, which was a securities class action involving trading in the securities of Scorpion Technologies Inc. Ms. Katz received her law degree from Hofstra University School of Law, where she was a member of the Hofstra Law Review. She is admitted to the New York State Bar and to the bars of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and is a member of the Securities Litigation Committee of the New York City Bar. Ms. Katz was named a Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine in the Fall of 2008.
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