The Firm’s attorneys are regularly invited to lecture and prepare articles 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.

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.  Ms. Katz will be a faculty member at Practising Law Institute’s Securities Litigation & Enforcement Institute 2008, to be held in New York City on September 15-16, 2008. The Institute will address 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.

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.  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.  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.  In 2006, he gave two presentations at a conference in New York sponsored by Thomson entitled “Class Action Fairness Act:  One Year Later.”

Partner Christian Siebott, who is former law clerk to a respected federal appellate court judge, has taught legal writing at Benjamin Cardozo School of Law as an adjunct professor.   

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