The Firm’s attorneys are regularly invited to lecture, prepare articles, and teach in their particular fields of expertise, reflecting the Firm’s leadership position in the securities, class action, consumer protection, and trial bars.

Partner Stanley Bernstein, for example, is a frequent lecturer on directors and officers’ liability, class-action practice, and securities law at seminars organized nationwide by Practising Law Institute, the New York City Bar Association, the AIG/National Union insurance companies, and the National Association of Corporate Directors.  Mr. Bernstein was a featured speaker representing the plaintiffs’ securities bar at the National Association of Corporate Directors’ Directorship Forum in June 2010, where he led a discussion concerning the liability environment facing board directors; he was a featured speaker at the Chartis Executive Liability 2010 D&O Market Trends Seminar Series in May 2010, where he led a discussion concerning the involvement of institutional investor plaintiffs in securities litigation; and he was a featured speaker on behalf of the plaintiffs’ bar at the National Association of Corporate Directors’ and Directorship’s Global Forum in June 2009, where he led a discussion concerning directors’ liability.

Partner Rebecca Katz, a former Senior Trial Counsel in the Enforcement Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission, frequently lecturers in the area of securities litigation and class action litigation, including as a faculty member at Practising Law Institute’s Securities Litigation & Enforcement Institute 2009, and at Practising Law Institute’s Securities Litigation & Enforcement Institute 2008, addressing such issues as the meaning of the subprime crisis for securities litigation, the implications of recent Supreme Court decisions on securities law, developments in auditor liability, and the latest government enforcement initiatives.  Ms. Katz has also lectured at the Fordham University School of Law’s Eugene P. and Delia S. Murphy Conference on Corporate Law - Corporations, Investors, and the Securities Markets.  She is a member of the Securities Litigation Committee of the New York City Bar Association.

Partner Seth Ottensoser is a frequent lecturer on the issues of civil procedure, federal practice, class actions, and corporate governance, and has written extensively and been published on those matters.  In September 2009, Mr. Ottensoser lectured at Harvard Law School on the topic of merger multiples in the context of Delaware litigation.  He is a regular lecturer at the UCLA Anderson School of Management Directors’ and Officers’ Certification Program, where he has also been a keynote lunch speaker.  He is also a regular guest lecturer in Professor Geoffrey Miller’s course on class action practice at the New York University School of Law.  Mr. Ottensoser has served as a member of the Special Committee on Mergers, Acquisitions and Corporate Control Contests of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, now known as the New York City Bar Association.

Partner Christian Siebott, who is former law clerk to a respected federal appellate court judge, recently became a member of the Editorial Board of Securities Litigation Report, a publication that analyzes the latest developments in private actions and government enforcement, focusing on, among other things, corporate governance, risk management, and professional responsibility.  He authored and edited portions of the New York City Bar Association’s Appeals To The Second Circuit.  He also recently represented the plaintiffs’ bar on a panel of class action practitioners in a continuing legal education program entitled, “Developments in Class Action Law 2010,” hosted by West LegalEdcenter®.

In addition, Mr. Siebott is  frequently published on topics relating to complex litigation and securities matters, including several recent articles:  “Jury Verdict Targets Bank’ Over-Reliance on Credit Ratings,” FindLaw (with Associate David Harrison), July 29, 2010; “Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Matrixx, Concerning Materiality & Adverse Events,” Securities Litigation Report (with Associate Gabriel Galletti), July/August 2010; “Need for Attribution–Second Circuit Affirms that Plaintiffs Need to Show Reliance on Secondary Players’ Own Statements,” Securities Litigation Report, July 2010; and “The Impact of Iqbal on Securities Class Actions,” Securities Litigation Report (with Associate Brian E. Lehman), March 2010.

Mr. Siebott is active in the New York City Bar Association and the Federal Bar Council, and has served as an adjunct professor of law at Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.

Associate Brian Lehman has written extensively, and been published on a number of issues, including most recently:  “Justice Scalia’s Concurrence to Merck:  Is Adopting the Ordinary Reader’s Perspective a Solution to Judicial Activism?” Securities Litigation Report, June 2010; and ”The Impact of Iqbal on Securities Class Action,” Securities Litigation Report (with Christian Siebott), March 2010.  For a more complete list of Mr. Lehman’s writings, please click here.