Founded over 40 years ago, our nationally
recognized law firm protects the rights of our clients with more
than 70 lawyers covering eleven distinct practice areas.
After serving as Philadelphia City Solicitor, David Berger
founded Berger & Montague in 1970, pioneering the field of
class actions in antitrust and securities litigation. Since then,
we have become one of the premier complex, class
action and commercial litigation firms in the United States.
Our nationally recognized and award-winning lawyers
have recovered over $22 billion for our
clients and the classes they represent.
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| Managing Shareholders Daniel Berger and Harold
Berger, and Firm President H. Laddie Montague |
Over 40 Years of High Profile Cases
Berger & Montague has played a lead role in some
of the most notable and newsworthy cases in United States
history. For example, we were a principal plaintiffs'
counsel in the Drexel Burnham
Lambert/Michael
Milken securities and bankruptcy litigation, in
which claimants recovered approximately $2 billion in the
aftermath of the junk bond market collapse and the Drexel
bankruptcy in the late 1980's.
In the 1990s, Berger & Montague was one of the principal
trial counsel in the Exxon Valdez
Oil Spill litigation. The jury awarded a record $5
billion verdict against Exxon, which the United States Supreme
Court later reduced to $507.5 million.
Berger & Montague was also lead counsel in the School Asbestos
Litigation, the first mass tort property damage class
action certified in the United States on a national
basis. A class of secondary and elementary schools
recovered in excess of $300 million to defray their asbestos
abatement costs.
America's worst nuclear incident was the near meltdown of a
reactor at Three Mile Island, just 15 miles from Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania. Berger & Montague was lead/liaison counsel in the
ensuing
litigation.
Over 40 Years of Representing Businesses in Significant
Civil Antitrust Litigation
In many of the most significant
civil antitrust cases in United States history, Berger &
Montague served as lead, co-lead or trial counsel, including the State of
Connecticut Tobacco Litigation ($3.6 billion
settlement); In re
Corrugated Container Antitrust Litigation (more
than $366 million recovered); the Infant
Formula case ($125 million recovery); and the
Brand Name Prescription Drug price fixing case (more
than $700 million settlement). In pharmaceutical
antitrust litigation, Berger & Montague has played a
leading role in cases involving delayed entry of generic or
other rival drug competition, and has achieved more
than $1 billion in such settlements over the last decade.
Over 40 Years of Representing Institutional and
Private Investors in Significant Securities Fraud
Litigation
Since its founding, Berger & Montague has been privileged to
have been selected to represent many state government public
institutional investors, including, for example, the state
retirement funds of Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, Louisiana and Ohio. We are
also regularly selected to represent the retirement funds of
numerous cities and municipalities, for example, the City
of Philadelphia.
Berger & Montague also represents numerous individual
and private institutional investors. For example, the firm was
co-lead counsel in the Melridge
Securities Litigation ($88.2 million jury
verdict); and lead counsel in numerous major class
action securities cases, including Merrill
Lynch ($475 million); Rite
Aid ($334 million); Waste
Management ($220 million); Sunbeam
($142 million); IKON
($111 million); Medaphis ($96 million); Fleming
Companies ($94 million); Cigna
($93 million);
Xcel Energy ($80 million); and Alcatel
($75 million).
Over 10 Years of Representing Whistleblowers Under
the IRS. SEC, CFTC & Qui Tam / False Claims
Acts
Our ten attorney Whistleblower/Qui
Tam practice, one of the largest in the United
States, has recovered over $1.1 billion for federal and
state taxpayers. For more than a decade, we have
successfully represented whistleblowers in matters involving
healthcare fraud, defense contracting fraud, IRS fraud, securities
fraud, and commodities fraud.
Privileged to Represent Holocaust
Victims
In human rights litigation, Berger & Montauge, through our
executive committee membership in the Holocaust Victim
Assets Litigation, helped to achieve a $1.25 billion
settlement with Switzerland's largest banks on behalf of victims of
Nazi aggression whose deposits were not returned after the Second
World War. Our firm also is proud to have played an
instrumental role in bringing about a $4.37
billion settlement with German industry and government for the
use of slave and forced labor during the Holocaust.
The above cases are just several examples of the notable and
newsworthy cases in which Berger & Montague has played a major
role. No less important are the scores of cases in which we
have successfully protected the rights of our clients in matters
that may not have been in the newspaper, but were nonetheless
vitally important to our clients' interests. Every matter is
equally important to us, and we will vigorously protect our
clients' interests above all else.
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