ACHTMAN v. KIRBY, McINERNEY & SQUIRE, LLP

Docket No. 04-5473-cv.

464 F.3d 328 (2006)

Joseph ACHTMAN, Shirley Achtman, Blair Ambach, Theodore Andreozzi, Sondra Baer-Miller, for the estate of Jenny Baer, Sandy Berkowitz, Joseph Berlinger, Elissa Berlinger, Gustave Birnberg, Faith Birnberg, George Cagen, Yvette Cohen, Selma Dauber, Martin Dauber, Isabel Ezersky, Paul Ezersky, Dorothy Feigenbaum, Richard Flynn, individually and for the estate of Herbert Flynn, Dorothy Gatson, Erwin Gatson, Gunther Glaser, Grace Gluck, Saul Gluck, Bernard Greenberg, Rona Greenberg, Brian Henry, Albert Hodes, Arnold Jacobs, Hagop Jamgochian, Shamiram Jamgochian, Harry Kaiserman, Lawrence Kessler, Carl Kevorkian, Linda Tabris, for the estate of Bernice Kramera, Frederick H. Kroll, William Lenney, Sylvia Levine, Sidney Levine, Doris Levy, Lawrence Lindy, Anthony Longo, Joseph A. Longo, Harry Mandelbaum, Blanche Mandelbaum, Henry Medvin, Selma Medvin, Carol Peyser, Renee Pfau, Hyman Rock, Phillip Ross, Lloyd Schildcrout, Albert Sheridan, Eleanor Silverstein, Stanley Singer, Joe Singer, Kenneth Smith, Harold Sommers, Melvin Spencer, Ben Spencer, Russell Stott, Anne Stott, Paul Trusik, Harriet Wallshein, S. Joseph Wallshein, Eleanor Weidemeyer, Harry Weinstein, Edith Weinstein, Elaine Zinberg, Genia Zwirn, and David Zwirn, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. KIRBY, McINERNEY & SQUIRE, LLP and Bernstein, Litowitz, Berger & Grossman, LLP, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Last Submission: June 16, 2006.

Decided: September 25, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arnold E. DiJoseph, III, DiJoseph & Portegello, P.C., New York, N.Y., for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Bertrand C. Sellier, Proskauer Rose, LLP, New York, N.Y. (Tom Stein, on the brief), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before CARDAMONE, McLAUGHLIN, and POOLER, Circuit Judges.


McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs brought a putative class action against their former attorneys, Kirby, McInerney & Squire, LLP ("Kirby") and Bernstein, Litowitz, Berger & Grossman, LLP ("Bernstein") in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Sprizzo, J.). Both firms had served as class counsel in a separate earlier securities class action and it is the firms' conduct in litigating...

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