"Go Pick A Client" - And Other Tales of Woe Resulting from the Selection of Class Counsel by Court-Ordered Competitive Bidding

Authors

Fred B. Burnside

Keywords

Securities Fraud, Network Associates, Board of Pensioners of the City of Philadelphia, Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, PSLRA, Judge Vaughn Walker, lead plaintiff, lead counsel, counsel bidding systems, competitive bidding, selection of class counsel, lead counsel auctions, Cooperman v. Powell, Davis v. Coopers & Lybrand, Computer Associates Inc., Software Toolworks Inc., Unisys Corp., Milberg Weiss, Cendant Corp., Razorfish, Microstrategy Systems, Steiner v. Aurora Foods, Judge Jed Rakoff, Arthur Levitt, Weiss and Beckerman, Yale Law Journal, institutional investors, most adequate plaintiff, Rule 23, class action, adequate representation, adequacy of representation, most adequate plaintiff, Model Rules of Professional Conduct, Model Code of Professional Responsibility, Rule 1.7, expense caps, conflict of interest, John Coffee, Steiner v. Aurora Foods, Copper Mountain Networks Securities Litigation, Joseph Grundfest, Ballan v. Upjohn, Jill Fisch, investigation of fraud

Recommended Citation

Fred B. Burnside, "Go Pick A Client" - And Other Tales of Woe Resulting from the Selection of Class Counsel by Court-Ordered Competitive Bidding, 8 Fordham J. Corp. & Fin. L. 363 (2003).
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/jcfl/vol8/iss2/2