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Litigation: Securities - District of Columbia

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What the Team is Known For

Latham & Watkins has an impressive team that features a number of prominent practitioners with considerable government experience and trial expertise. The firm offers real strength in a number of areas, including in environmental and toxic tort litigation, FCA violations and insurance coverage disputes. It also boasts a stellar securities practice with significant experience in high profile shareholder class actions. The team frequently represents clients across a diverse range of sectors, including highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare and energy. It fields substantial expertise in matters with cross-border elements, with support from the firm's international offices.

Work Highlights

  • Latham & Watkins successfully represented Amgen in a securities class action, seeking more than a billion dollars in damages.

Strengths

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They are zealous advocates. The team takes winning very seriously.

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Latham & Watkins is the best law firm. They are truly platinum grade. They are unbelievably thorough, strategic and intelligent.

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The team is available and responsive 24/7.

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Our case was extremely complex and Latham & Watkins worked through it exceptionally well.

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Latham is one of the only firms that can provide both the breadth and depth of legal expertise we need to handle big-dollar, complex civil litigation matters with multijurisdictional components.

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Notable Practitioners

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Susan E Engel
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Susan E Engel
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Susan Engel is an experienced securities litigator noted for her strength representing issuers and their officers and directors before state and federal courts.

Susan is probably one of the most creative thinkers among the appellate specialists.

Susan has a sharp, analytical mind and ability to craft innovative arguments. She has a strong command of language and advocates persuasively in litigious settings. She has gravitas in negotiations and in a courtroom.

Susan is brilliant and a very good oral advocate.

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Abid R Qureshi
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Abid R Qureshi
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Abid Qureshi is well regarded in the market for his extensive skills in civil litigation. His expertise spans across healthcare fraud, international arbitration, securities class actions and FCA cases.

Abid is intelligent, focused and super knowledgeable.

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Stephen Barry
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Stephen Barry
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Stephen Barry is building a robust and versatile securities practice. He has expertise in complex securities class actions and also has experience in representing individuals in securities litigation.

I think very highly of him in strategic thinking and litigation strategy.

He is very responsive and knowledgeable. I could call him whenever and he really knows the answer.

Stephen is able to find creative solutions to our problems and he is an excellent presenter in court.

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Nicholas J Boyle
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Nicholas J Boyle
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Nicholas Boyle, vice chair of Latham & Watkins' complex commercial litigation practice, is noted for his skills in handling complex commercial litigation, with experience in intellectual property and securities cases.

He is the architect and the brains behind our engagement.

Nick is very responsive. He is an excellent trial litigator and pays stellar attention to us as a client.

Nick does a great job thinking about matters from the business perspective and getting great results.

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Abid R Qureshi
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Abid R Qureshi
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Nicholas J Boyle
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Nicholas J Boyle
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Litigation: Securities
Susan E Engel
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Susan E Engel
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Stephen Barry
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Stephen Barry
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