Business Week has run a story profiling prominent securities plaintiff attorneys, Max Berger and Sean Coffey of Bernstein, Litowitz Berger & Grossman:

The Kings Of Class Actions

May 16, 2005

Max Berger and Sean Coffey are riding high after making WorldCom's bankers pay up. Here's what life is like for Max W. Berger these days: The maitre d' at Manhattan restaurant Cité prances around the 58-year-old founding partner of plaintiffs' law firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP (BLBG) as Berger is delivered to his favorite corner table. He is offered a sampling of fine wine, and his filet mignon is on the house after he complains that the first one is too fatty. Berger soaks up the attention. But the real treat arrives with dessert. Jonathan J. Lerner, a partner at venerable law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, who opposed Berger in a massive shareholder lawsuit five years ago, saunters up and says to his dinner companion: "This guy took $3 billion from me. He's the best lawyer in New York."

The article kinda goes on like that, listing some of Berger and Coffey's greatest hits. But it provides interesting view into one of the preeminent firms and some of the most prominent personalities in securities litigation.

Read the rest here.

Many thanks to the 10b-5 Daily for the link.

-- MDT

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