Robert M. Kornreich, a senior partner of the Firm, is a graduate of Columbia College (B.A.), the School of Law of the State University of New York at Buffalo (1967, LL.B. -- member of the Buffalo Law Review) and New York University School of Law (LL.M.). Following law school, he joined the Firm where he has concentrated in the area of securities class and derivative litigation. He has been a senior member of the Firm since February 1984 and has been a partner since 1979.

Mr. Kornreich has been lead or co-lead counsel in numerous successful securities class action cases.

• For example, he was co-lead counsel for plaintiffs in the class action entitled In re Digital Equipment Securities Litigation, CA 83-3255-Y (D. Mass.), in which a settlement of $9 million was achieved.
• He was co-lead counsel in the class actions entitled In re McDonnell Douglas Equipment Leasing Securities Litigation, MDL No. 873 (S.D.N.Y.) which was settled with cash benefits to the classes in excess of $16,000,000.
• He was co-lead counsel in In Re JWP Securities Litigation, Master File No. 92 Civ. 5815 (WCC) (S.D.N.Y.), a securities class action which was settled in 1997 for approximately $36,000,000.

He has argued appeals in many jurisdictions, including the New York Court of Appeals, as well as, the D.C. Circuit, the Eleventh Circuit and the Sixth Circuit. His notable appellate decisions include Barr v. Wackman, 36 N.Y. 2d 371 (1975); Lipton v. Documation, 734 F.2d 740 (11th Cir. 1984), and; In re Subpoena Served Upon the Comptroller of the Currency and the Secretary of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 967 F.2d 630 (D.C. Cir. 1992).

Mr. Kornreich was sole lead or co-lead counsel in the following notable recent class or derivative action cases:

• In Re Sunbeam Securities Litigation, 98-8258-Civ., class action settlement in the Southern District of Florida for $110 million with outside auditor, the second largest class recovery against a public auditor;
• Berke v. Presstek, Inc., 96-347-M, class action settlement in the District of New Hampshire for $22 million in stock;
• In re TCW/DW American Government Income Trust Securities Litigation, 95 Civ. 0167 (PKL), class action settlement for $30 million in the Southern District of New York;
• Retsky Family Limited Partnership v. Price Waterhouse LLP, 97 C 7694, class settlement in Northern District of Delaware for $14 million after trial by award of arbitrator;
• Quintel Entertainment, Inc., 98 Civ. 3163 (WCC), class settlement in Southern District of New York for $3.2 million;
• In Re Triarc Companies, Inc. Class and Derivative Litigation, 1576-NC, class and derivative settlement in Delaware Chancery Court for $11 million in economic benefits.

Mr. Kornreich is a recognized expert in the field of securities litigation and has served as Chair of the Committee on Securities and Exchanges of the New York County Lawyers' Association from 1993 to 1997.