September 26, 2024
News
Berger Montague Shareholder Dr. Robert E. Litan’s latest book Resolved: Debate Can Revolutionize Education and Help Save our Democracy (Brookings 2020) helped start a conversation about the power of introducing students to the art of debating. An upcoming PBS documentary, Beyond Debate: A Revolution in Education, examines public schools in […]
September 25, 2024
News
On September 23, 2024, a federal judge tapped a team of lawyers from Berger Montague PC, Susman Godfrey LLP, and Edelson PC to take the lead for the class action plaintiffs in consolidated multidistrict litigation (“MDL”) accusing MultiPlan and many large insurers of colluding to systematically underpay out-of-network healthcare providers. […]
September 19, 2024
News
NEW YORK, Sep 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Legal Notice If you sold platinum or palladium futures contracts traded on NYMEX, sold platinum or palladium call options traded on NYMEX, or bought platinum or palladium put options traded on NYMEX from January 1, 2008 through November 30, 2014, you may be affected by a pending class […]
September 19, 2024
Firm News
Berger Montague Shareholder Paul Bland will be the keynote speaker at the 35th Annual Appellate Practice Institute, organized by the Center for Legal Education and the State Bar of New Mexico’s Appellate Practice Section. The event, which will take place September 20, 2024 in Albuquerque, New Mexico as well as […]
September 13, 2024
General
In a recent article in American Banker, Berger Montague was featured as one of the law firms at the forefront of recent litigation against cash sweep programs. These programs, lawsuits allege, benefit financial institutions’ bottom line rather than clients. While many wealth managers defend the programs by arguing that moving […]
August 30, 2024
News
PHILADELPHIA – Berger Montague, one of the nation’s leading antitrust law firms, negotiated a $20 million settlement with four defendants alleged to have manipulated the benchmarks used to price platinum and palladium. The settlement brings the total settlements achieved by Berger Montague as co-lead counsel in precious metals antitrust and […]
August 29, 2024
News
Joshua Davis, Chair of Berger Montague’s Complex Litigation Ethics Consulting Group, organizes and participates in an annual panel on ethics in class actions at the ABA Class Actions Institute. The next conference will take place on Oct. 24-25, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee. You can learn about and register for the […]
August 29, 2024
News
Class Actions and Other Complex Litigation: Ethics (Lexis Nexis 2023) is the first treatise dedicated to ethical issues in class actions and multidistrict litigation. Co-edited by Joshua Davis, Chair of Berger Montague’s Complex Litigation Ethics Consulting Group and Shareholder Candice Enders—with chapters by Davis, Enders, and other leading lights in […]
August 29, 2024
News
The third annual Complex Litigation Ethics Conference will take place on October 17-18, 2024 on the UC Law SF campus. The conference is organized by Joshua Davis, Chair of Berger Montague’s Complex Litigation Ethics Consulting Group, and the Center for Litigation and Courts at UC Law SF. The event brings together luminaries […]
August 23, 2024
News
PHILADELPHIA – Berger Montague, a national plaintiffs’ class action law firm, has hired additional talent to join the team of attorneys representing classes of brokerage account holders who allege their cash holdings have been improperly swept into low-interest accounts by banks and brokerages. Alex Heller has joined the Securities Fraud […]
August 20, 2024
News
PHILADELPHIA, PA– Berger Montague obtained a $100 million settlement with major chicken processor, Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., acting as co-lead counsel on behalf of a class of chicken farmers or “growers” in an antitrust alleging that the major chicken processing companies conspired to suppress the pay of chicken growers. This settlement […]
August 15, 2024
News
PHILADELPHIA, PA and TORONTO, CA– Berger Montague and Freedman Normand Friedland filed an antitrust class action against the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) and ten of its member institutions. The suit alleges that the NCAA has illegally agreed to prohibit current and former Canadian Hockey League (CHL) players from playing […]