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Business News // 1 decade ago

Law firm agrees to pay $75 million fine

A New York law firm with two former senior partners sentenced to prison will pay $75 million to avoid going to trial, prosecutors said.

Business News // 1 decade ago

Lerach sentenced to two years in prison

U.S. District Judge John F. Walter sentenced high-profile class action attorney William Lerach to two years in prison Monday.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Class-action lawyer Lerach headed to jail

California class-action lawsuit specialist William Lerach will spend between one and two years in prison for paying people to serve as plaintiffs.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Class-action lawyer enters guilty plea

William Lerach, one of the most successful class-action and security lawyers in the United States, agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Business News // 1 decade ago

Enron class-action lawsuit limited

A New Orleans appeals court ruled Enron Corp. shareholders may not sue investment banks for their role in the Houston energy trader's collapse.

Top News // 2 decades ago

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Top News // 2 decades ago

Judge to rule on safeguarding documents

A federal judge was expected to rule Wednesday on a request for a temporary restraining order to safeguard financial documents in the Enron bankruptcy. The FBI also has made a preliminary inquiry into reported document shredding as recently as last week a

Top News // 2 decades ago

Judge asked to preserve Enron evidence

Lawyers for shareholders and former Enron employees asked a federal judge Tuesday to preserve evidence in the Houston energy company's bankruptcy and prevent further shredding of documents needed in lawsuits.

Top News // 2 decades ago

Lawyers ask judge to stop shredding

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Enron: Ordered staff to retain documents

Bankrupt energy trader Enron Corp. said it had repeatedly ordered all its employees since Oct. 25, 2001 to refrain from destruction of any official documents.

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I participated in what was being done and was wrong
Lerach sentenced to two years in prison Feb 11, 2008

I have always fought for my clients aggressively and vigorously in order to hold powerful corporations responsible when their actions harmed people
Class-action lawyer Lerach headed to jail Sep 19, 2007

I have always fought for my clients aggressively and vigorously in order to hold powerful corporations responsible when their actions harmed people, however, I regrettably crossed a line and pushed too far
Class-action lawyer enters guilty plea Sep 18, 2007

William Shannon Lerach (Bill Lerach) (b. 1946, Ohio River Valley, Midwestern United States) is an American lawyer who specialized in class action lawsuits. He earned his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Pittsburgh. He has been a major financial donor to Democratic Party organizations at the state and national level. In 1993, Lerach bragged to Forbes magazine that "I have the greatest practice of law in the world, I have no clients."

Lerach, formerly a partner in the indicted law firm Milberg Weiss, left that firm in 2004 to form the San Diego, California based firm, Lerach Coughlin Stoia & Robbins LLP. After a merger with Geller Rudman LLP, the firm became Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP.

According to a June 2007 statement in which he alluded to the ongoing Milberg Weiss investigation, Lerach was considering retirement. As of 31 August 2007, Lerach is no longer a member of the San Diego firm, which is now known as Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins LLP.

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