Securities Docket

Kimberly Haddox Behling has joined Fox Rothschild as a partner in its Pittsburgh office.  The firm announced last month that Behling joins Fox Rothschild from Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C.
Behling focuses on securities litigation, director and officer liability, and corporate compliance.
Read the Fox Rothschild announcement

Bryan D. Daly, Charles L. Kreindler and Peter Morris have joined law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as partners in the firm’s Los Angeles office. The firm announced that they will be joined at Sheppard Mullin by special counsel Barbara E. Taylor and Melissa K. Eaves, and will practice together in the firm’s Business [...]

Richard Roper, U.S. Attorney for the N. D. Tex., has resigned and will join law firm Thompson & Knight’s as a partner in its Fort Worth and Dallas offices.  The Star-Telegram reports that Roper will handle white-collar fraud and corporate investigation matters for the Dallas-based law firm, which has about 400 attorneys.
Roper has served as [...]

The SEC announced today that Susan G. Markel, Chief Accountant for the Division of Enforcement, will leave the agency in January to become a Managing Director in the Corporate Investigations practice of AlixPartners LLP, a global business advisory firm.
Ms. Markel joined the SEC staff in 1994 as a Staff Accountant in the Division of Enforcement. [...]

Bradley E. Lerman has joined Pfizer Inc. as Senior Vice President, Litigation. Pfizer announced today that Lerman will be responsible for leading the company’s litigation efforts. Lerman joins Pfizer from Winston & Strawn LLP in Chicago, where he has served as as a litigation partner since 1998 and where he concentrated his practice in [...]

Jonathan E. Polonsky has joined Kilpatrick Stockton as a partner in its New York office.  The firm announced last week that Polonsky joined its Complex Business Litigation Team on December 1, 2008 after 18 years as a partner at Thelen LLP.
Polonsky’s practice focuses on securities litigation and class actions, financial services litigation and business reorganization [...]

Sean Patrick Casey will join law firm Mayer Brown LLP as a partner in February.  The WSJ reports that Casey, an AUSA in the Eastern District of New York, is currently the deputy chief of that office’s business- and securities-fraud section.
Casey previously worked for the SEC, as well.
Read the WSJ article

In a decision issued yesterday, the NY Supreme Court ruled that the name of Melvyn Weiss, former named partner with the law firm formerly known as Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP, is to be struck “from the roll of attorneys on the ground that he was automatically disbarred as a result of his conviction [...]

Joseph I. Goldstein and Adriaen M. Morse, Jr. have joined LeClairRyan in its DC office.  The firm announced today that Goldstein joins it as a Shareholder and Morese joins it as a Partner, and that both will practice in the firm’s Securities Enforcement Defense and Financial Litigation groups.

Goldstein (pictured) had a 15-year career at the [...]

Joseph T. McLaughlin has joined Bingham McCutchen as of counsel in its New York office. The firm announced today that McLaughlin has joined its Securities Area.
McLaughlin was previously chairman of Heller Ehrman’s New York office from 2002 to 2007, and is also a mediator and arbitrator with JAMS.  McLaughlin was also previously general counsel and [...]