We are a 900+ lawyer business litigation firm with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco , New York, Silicon Valley, Tokyo, London, Chicago, Mannheim, Washington, Hamburg, Hong Kong, Munich, Paris, Sydney, Brussels, Houston, Seattle, Shanghai, Zurich, Doha, Perth, Stuttgart, Boston, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Austin, Miami, Neuilly la Defense, Riyadh, Berlin, Dallas.
We aggressively litigate a wide variety of business disputes for Fortune 500 companies as well as smaller companies. We do not simply “handle” cases for years before settling them on the courthouse steps. Our goal is to seize the initiative and resolve them quickly, because it is in our clients’ interests to do so. If a case cannot be resolved short of trial, we have the experienced trial lawyers who can try it. Our business is winning cases—and we do.
Our Lawyers:
Attorneys at our firm have tried over 2,500 cases and won 86%. When we represent defendants, our trial experience gets us better settlements or defense verdicts. When representing plaintiffs, our lawyers have won over $70 billion in judgments and settlements. We have also obtained seven 9-figure jury verdicts, fifty-one 9-figure settlements, and nineteen 10-figure settlements.
Our attorneys include top graduates from Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Chicago, Michigan, Columbia and other distinguished schools. At last count, 221 of our attorneys (or 25%) were law review editors in law school and/or clerked for judges; nineteen have taught law; and many have been or are general counsel for corporations. Over 25 of our attorneys are former Assistant United States Attorneys. Three of our partners have worked in the White House: two for Democrats, one for Republicans.
Trial Lawyers, Not Paper Litigators; Why Trial Lawyers Are Also Best for Settlement:
Trying cases is a key element of our firm culture. Trials are zero sum games – they are no place for beginners. We try more major business cases than any other law firm. At least once each year, we are in a trial or an arbitration pursuing or defending against a claim for over $1 billion in damages. Many of our partners are very highly experienced trial lawyers, having tried dozens of cases to verdict. Seven have taught trial advocacy. We do not believe the same level of jury trial experience can be found at any other business law firm. Our trial experience is an obvious advantage in the courtroom, and is important both for the relatively rare case which must be tried and for the cases which settle. Plaintiffs’ lawyers know we will not hesitate to go to trial and know what we can do in a courtroom. Our well-known ability to try cases diminishes the lawsuit “hold up” factor and causes adversaries to re-think their demands. We believe that our firm can get better settlements because of our credibility as trial lawyers.
Who We Are: Founded in October 2018, Reichman Jorgensen Lehman & Feldberg LLP (RJLF) boldly entered the market as a trial boutique with a national reach and an ambition to create a new standard for litigation firms. Focusing on high-stakes commercial litigation, intellectual property, and white collar disputes, with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, and Austin, the majority women-owned trial firm made national headlines for breaking away from many law firm traditions, including eschewing the billable hour in favor of arrangements that align client interests and reward efficiency. RJLF also eliminated two other standard law firm features – the partnership track and lockstep compensation – in favor of systems that encourage attorneys to advance as quickly as their skills allow. The firm is committed to attracting and retaining the most elite talent in the legal industry and pays above market.
In another departure from industry norms, RJLF is truly diverse. More than half of the firm’s lawyers are women, half of the firm’s partners are women, and 30% of the firm’s lawyers are ethnically and/or LGBTQ+ diverse. Law360’s 2022 Glass Ceiling Report: Women in Law features RJLF among the top three law firm “Ceiling Smashers” for having the highest representation of women equity partners for a U.S. firm of its size. RJLF also ranked among the top most gender diverse U.S. firms of its size, according to percentage of female attorneys. RJLF was named a “Top Trial Boutique” and awarded “Silicon Valley Firm of the Year” for three consecutive years by Benchmark Litigation and recognized as an “Elite Boutique” by The National Law Journal.
Elite Talent Wins Cases: RJLF’s break from industry traditions obviously resonated with the market, as the firm’s size quickly expanded with marquee talent from several esteemed “Big Law” firms such as Finnegan Henderson; Hughes, Hubbard & Reed; Allen & Overy; Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius; and White & Case, among many others. Our attorneys are from the most prestigious clerkships, including the Supreme Court, the D.C. Circuit, the Federal Circuit, the 2nd, 6th, 7th, and 11th Circuits, and District Courts around the country, as well as prestigious law schools such as Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, Berkeley, NYU, and others. The firm’s lawyers have undergraduate and advanced technical degrees in diverse fields including electrical engineering, physics, computer science, computer networks, biotechnology, and zoology. RJLF’s lawyers have also been recognized among the most accomplished trial lawyers by The American College of Trial Lawyers, Chambers USA, The Legal 500, The National Law Journal, Managing IP, and IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Practitioners, among many others.
Recent Achievements: Punching well above its weight, RJLF often goes toe-to-toe with some of the largest law firms in the world, including Skadden Arps, Morrison & Foerster, Gibson Dunn, and Baker Hostetler, among others. The firm proved its trial prowess when it served as lead counsel for Densify in a high-profile patent dispute against global tech giant VMware. After a nine-day trial, jurors awarded Densify $236 million in damages finding that VMware willfully infringed two Densify virtualization technology patents. The firm’s verdict on behalf of Densify was recognized in The National Law Journal’s 2021 “Verdicts Hall of Fame” (7th largest verdict in past five years).
RJLF also secured an $84 million willful patent infringement verdict on behalf of Cirba, (d/b/a Densify) against VMware. Following a five-day jury trial and after only two hours of deliberation, the jurors decided VMware had willfully infringed Cirba’s patent that covers cutting-edge virtualization technology. This was the second time a jury determined that VMware committed willful infringement.
In an ultra rare price-fixing trial against the Department of Justice (DOJ), the RJLF trial team secured a complete defense verdict after two mistrials. The case stemmed from a high-profile grand jury indictment by the DOJ that charged 10 executives, including RJLF client Roger Austin, a former Vice President of Pilgrim’s Pride, alleging a price-fixing scheme in the $28 billion-per-year broiler chicken industry. The trial win earned the team Global Competition Review’s 2023 Behavioural Matter of the Year (Americas).
RJLF also secured a precedent-setting victory on behalf of the California Restaurant Association in the “gas ban on stoves” case against the City of Berkeley. The Ninth Circuit unanimously reversed the District Court’s ruling and held that Berkeley’s ban on natural gas hookups is preempted by federal law and therefore invalid.
Pro Bono: RJLF is deeply committed to public interest litigation. We understand that our privilege of being trial lawyers naturally involves representing those in need, whether it’s high-profile impact litigation or a person who will be evicted from an apartment. We also collaborate and work side-by-side with our clients to develop targeted pro bono and community service programs. Our pro bono activities include handling cases involving civil rights, immigration, prison abuse, indigent defense, homelessness, and veterans’ issues, among others.
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With more than 3,200 lawyers across 14 countries, fluent in at least 60 languages, Latham provides clients with an unmatched global platform capable of mobilizing the best-suited teams regardless of location.
Litigation & Trial Practice: Latham’s Litigation & Trial Department includes a roster of top-tier trial lawyers. With a team of more than 1,000 top-flight litigators, including 35 former U.S. federal prosecutors, Latham has developed a fearsome reputation for bringing experience, insight, and determination to the table — and to the courtroom and the boardroom. Latham draws from its global platform to match the right skill and expertise to the matter at hand, bringing together diverse teams to develop and implement aggressive and creative litigation strategies. Antitrust &
Competition: Latham’s integrated practice is built around highly qualified lawyers who are skilled in both local and international dimensions of antitrust and competition issues. Our lawyers provide counsel on the full scope of antitrust and competition law issues, including merger clearance, cartel investigation and litigation, competition-related litigation, intellectual property antitrust, and compliance counseling and training programs. Latham provides top client service in matters involving monopolization challenges, fast-moving merger litigation, and novel theories in bet-the-company cases.
Connectivity, Privacy & Information: Latham leverages a global platform to address the critical legal issues arising from digital technology and services, in disciplines including communications, data privacy and cybersecurity, internet law, and digital copyright. Our team handles high-profile litigation, regulatory investigations and counseling, internal investigations, and technology transactions for clients in a multiple industry sectors. We handle matters requiring extensive experience in particular areas of the law governing digital commerce, as well as matters that cut across legal silos to deliver exceptional results to our clients.
Complex Commercial Litigation: Latham combines trial-ready capabilities and business fluency to deliver a winning edge, no matter how complex a client’s challenge. Latham regularly represents public and private companies, leading financial institutions, private equity firms and portfolio companies, states and governmental entities, and high net worth individuals in complex commercial disputes. We have tried or arbitrated hundreds of cases to verdict over the past decade with an extraordinary success rate, spanning every stage of litigation in U.S. federal and state courts and before arbitration panels. The Latham arsenal includes more than 350 former federal law clerks from each of the U.S. circuit courts and 40 districts courts. Additionally, 35 former federal prosecutors from districts across the United States contribute invaluable institutional knowledge and extensive courtroom experience.
Environmental Litigation: Latham represents an array of clients across administrative and regulatory proceedings, enforcement, litigation, transactions, and legislative matters. Latham routinely draws on this experience to help clients navigate complex agency rulemakings, win approvals for energy and infrastructure projects, obtain new chemical and product approvals, and resolve environmental investigations, compliance, enforcement, and litigation matters across industries. Our broad range of expertise, coupled with our unique government experience, differentiates Latham – clients turn to our trusted team for our long-standing track record to deliver on ground-breaking matters across the US.
Intellectual Property Litigation: Latham has litigators with unparalleled experience in the full range of IP disputes, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade dress, and trade secrets. We practice regularly in multijurisdictional litigation around the world, in more than 45 U.S. district courts, and before the Federal Circuit, International Trade Commission, and Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Our team includes more than 105 technically trained lawyers, nine technical analysts, and 17 dedicated IP paralegals. Latham’s highly trained technical teams have litigated cases involving semiconductors, software, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, image processing, audio processing, therapeutics, medical devices, electric motors, engines, cloud computing and networking, packaging, building products, and banking technologies, among others.
Securities Litigation & Professional Liability: Latham boasts one of the most experienced and successful securities and derivative litigation groups in the United States. Our securities litigators include former federal prosecutors, senior staff of the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and former clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court, federal appellate and district courts, and state courts. We represent Fortune 500 companies, major financial institutions, and the Big Four accounting firms. Our team has obtained dismissals and favorable settlements in multi-billion dollar securities class actions, and in the rare instances where trial is unavoidable., Over the past year, our lawyers have represented clients as defendants in more federal securities class actions than any other law firm, across 22 U.S. district courts.
Supreme Court & Appellate: Led by a former U.S. Solicitor General, Latham’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice has represented clients in numerous groundbreaking cases, with an outstanding record before the U.S. Supreme Court and other appellate courts. Our appellate practitioners have appeared before the Supreme Court more than 30 times since 2007, representing Fortune 100 corporations, state governments, leading educational institutions, and individuals. The practice has secured certiorari in nearly a dozen cases on behalf of firm clients in the past few years alone. The firm has argued and briefed hundreds of cases before the Supreme Court and federal and state courts of appeals.
White Collar Defense & Investigations: Latham is at the forefront of advising on white collar and enforcement matters, providing our clients with unparalleled regulatory expertise in high-profile and sensitive matters in the U.S., and around the world. Our formidable roster contains former top-ranking officials from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the SEC, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the U.K.’s Serious Fraud Office, including attorneys from the White House Counsel’s Office. Latham is a top global firm in securing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act declinations, a market leader in healthcare regulation, a world leading Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) regulatory group, a destination firm for CFTC enforcement litigation, and a leader in the highest profile investigations.
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Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP is widely recognized worldwide as a leading law firm advising institutional investors on issues related to corporate governance, shareholder rights, and securities litigation. Since its founding in 1983, BLB&G has obtained nearly $40 billion in recoveries and achieved precedent-setting corporate governance reforms on behalf of its investor clients. Working with their clients, BLB&G’s cases have resulted in sweeping corporate governance reforms, changing deficient business practices, and serving as models for public companies going forward. A distinguished group of trial-tested litigators, BLB&G has repeatedly and consistently earned high praise from the courts, and the respect of the defense firms and insurance carriers it faces in courts and across negotiating tables.
Securities Fraud Litigation: Recognized by industry observers as one of the leading law firms worldwide representing institutional investors in complex securities fraud litigation (“the biggest star in the firmament” – Financial Times; “one of the best, bar none” – Euromoney; “consistently achieving the highest returns for investors” – The National Law Journal), BLB&G is regularly appointed by the courts as lead counsel in securities class actions, and has distinguished itself by focusing on the representation of respected institutional investors in meritorious cases. The firm is extremely selective in its prosecutions, only pursuing matters where its clients have significant holdings, and is well-known for “consistently bringing high-impact cases” (Securities Class Action Services).
The firm’s reputation for trial readiness is well-established. BLB&G has obtained many of the largest securities fraud recoveries on record, including:
Corporate Governance & Shareholder Rights: One of the first law firms to demonstrate that litigation can be an effective tool for stimulating positive change in failing corporate management settings, BLB&G is a well-recognized leader in giving shareholders a voice. The firm litigates cutting-edge fiduciary duty issues in order to maximize shareholder value, protect the shareholder franchise, and improve corporate governance practices. Additionally, BLB&G has obtained billions of dollars for shareholder investors, representing them in merger and acquisition transactions structured to deprive shareholders of fair value and unjustly enrich management. For example:
SPAC Litigation: As part of BLB&G’s mission to protect shareholder interests and police securities markets, the firm is actively prosecuting various claims challenging misconduct related to special purpose acquisition companies, or “SPACs.” BLB&G’s leadership in this space includes claims against SPAC sponsors, boards of directors, and other related parties, seeking redress for investors harmed by fraud, conflicts of interest, and statutory violations, among other things. Our interdisciplinary team of attorneys—supported by fraud examiners, private investigators, and financial analysts—has extensive experience prosecuting securities fraud claims, fiduciary duty claims, and other shareholder litigation that directly applies to the burgeoning SPAC space.
Asset Protection & Fraud Monitoring: BLB&G is the trusted securities fraud monitoring counsel for hundreds of public pension funds and institutional investors worldwide. The firm provides comprehensive analysis of the financial and business media, as well as all securities and shareholder derivative litigation to provide its institutional clients with complete reporting on potential claims that may impact their holdings.
Distressed Debt & Bankruptcy: BLB&G represents creditors’ committees, bankruptcy trustees, and investors in fixed income, high yield, and distressed debt securities. The firm has an excellent track record of seeking redress for losses under the securities laws in actions under state and federal law against prior management, auditors, bankers, and other advisors for various forms of misconduct, prosecuting claims on a contingent basis on behalf of institutions and individuals.
Commercial Litigation: BLB&G represents institutions and individuals on a contingency basis in a wide range of complex commercial litigation involving allegations of breach of contract, accountants’ liability, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and negligence. The firm litigates cases arising from private placements of debt or equity securities, derivatives, and other specialty financial instruments and prosecutes bankruptcy claims on behalf of creditors and litigation trusts or debtors-in-possession. BLB&G has recovered billions of dollars on behalf of institutional and individual investors, public and private companies and corporations, bankruptcy trustees, creditor committees, and various other business entities while facing down the most powerful and well-funded law firms and defendants in the country.
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