Litigation: Securities Mainly Plaintiffs
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Berman Tabacco is a national law firm with offices in San Francisco, CA and Boston, MA. Since its founding in 1982, Berman Tabacco has devoted its practice to complex litigation, primarily securities and antitrust. While the firm has purposely remained smaller than many of its competitors, its litigation groups have consistently punched above their weight class results-wise.
Berman Tabacco has a national reputation for our work prosecuting securities and antitrust class actions. The firm has a significant track record in securities litigation, having recovered billions of dollars for class members in successful litigations. While selective in the number of cases the firm recommends to its clients, the firm is among those with the most settlements in ISS SCAS’s The Top 100 U.S. Class Action Settlements of All Time (12/31/22). The firm has also been at the forefront of litigating ground-breaking issues in the securities cases it has prosecuted over the years.
Berman Tabacco has also led significant antitrust cases matters across several industries, including international bonds, over-the-counter financial derivatives, electronic payments, high-tech, pharmaceuticals, foreign currency exchanges, and consumer electronics, among others. The experienced senior attorneys in our antitrust practice group have engineered substantial settlements and changed the business practices of defendant companies, recovering more than $1 billion on behalf of our clients.
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Berman Tabacco served as a member of a plaintiffs' Executive Committee in shareholder derivative litigation against Meta alleging that members of the company's leadership had breached their fiduciary duty and violated a US FTC consent decree in relation to the alleged use of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica.
Strengths
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The lawyers are thoughtful, creative and diligent. They also produce excellent briefs.
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Joseph J Tabacco Jr
Joseph Tabacco is a highly regarded plaintiffs' lawyer who regularly advises on high-stakes class actions and derivative suits. He is calm under pressure, thinks strategically and always adds value. I always learn something form him.
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Nicole Lavallee
Nicole Lavallee is an experienced securities litigator who frequently acts for investors and shareholders to bring claims against public companies. Nicole is the person I want with me when going into battle. She is determined and a great tactician.
Litigation: Securities Mainly Plaintiffs respondentUSAWhen I think of plaintiffs' lawyers who are really good and the toughest adversaries in a highly professional way, Nicole is near the top of that list.
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Carl Hammarskjold

Todd Seaver

Daniel Barenbaum

Kristin Moody

Christopher Heffelfinger

Matthew Pearson

Nicole Lavallee
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Joseph J Tabacco Jr
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