Practice Areas - Securities & Consumer Fraud Class Action Lawyer | Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP - Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP
Embezzlement
His practice is currently focused on securities and consumer class actions, claims against securities brokers, and business litigation. In the course of his career, his trial and appellate experience has included criminal trials ranging from murder and bank embezzlement to Selective Service (draft) cases, and civil litigation involving trials, arbitrations and appeals of civil rights claims, claims against brokers, securities fraud class actions, consumer class actions, and representation of business owners defrauded in the sale of their businesses and legal malpractice actions. Mr. Shapiro has recovered multimillion-dollar verdicts in securities fraud class actions and arbitrations and secured settlements of numerous class actions.
Ms. Blauner has been at the forefront of shareholder derivative litigation addressing the nationwide epidemic of improperly backdated stock options. She has represented shareholders in derivative actions filed in both state and federal courts, concerning the improper backdating of stock options granted to officers, directors, and executives of the following corporations: Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.; Maxim Integrated Products; and UnitedHealth Group Incorporated. The settlement in the UnitedHealth derivative action is valued at more than $700 million, and is the largest back-dated option settlement nationwide. The Maxim derivative action has been settled, with Maxim receiving $38 million in cash and re-priced and surrendered options, as well as unique and innovative corporate governance reforms. The settlement in the Affiliated Computer derivative action settlement is valued at more than $40 million.
Business Disputes
Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP has a particular expertise in the application of Massachusetts unfair business law to antitrust actions. Our lawyers have been at the forefront of litigation involving the Massachusetts unfair business practices statute, and the firm is committed to using the statute to obtain relief for individuals and businesses who are the victims of anticompetitive practices. For example, the firm seeks to represent a class of Massachusetts consumers who purchased refrigerators or other cooling devices from certain defendants who allegedly fixed the price of the hermetically-sealed compressors within those appliances. While other firms have pursued actions alleging violations of federal law, Shapiro Haber & Urmy LLP has sought relief on behalf of Massachusetts consumers using the unfair business practices statute passed for their protection.
Unfair Competition
If you are a parent who purchased an Evenflo "Big Kid" Booster seat for your child between 2008 and the present, you may be entitled to participate in a lawsuit against Evenflo for engaging in unfair competition or unfair or deceptive acts or practices in violation of various state laws.
Antitrust
In re Plasma Derivative Protein Therapies Antitrust Litigation, 09-cv-07666 (N.D. Ill.), and successfully defeated a lengthy and substantial motion to dismiss in that case earlier this year.