Robert J. Lack
Robert J. Lack, the firm's Co-Managing Partner, has played a leading role in many of the major cases handled by Friedman Kaplan over nearly two decades. These include the firm's recent representation of entities sponsored by Bain Capital Partners, LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P. in litigation over the funding of the $18 billion leveraged buyout of Clear Channel Communications, Inc.; FKSA's representation of the Litigation Advisory Board of the Granite Funds in litigation against three major broker-dealers arising out of the sale and liquidation of complex derivative securities; and the firm's representation of a major institutional investor in a $200 million securities fraud and accountants' liability case arising from the bankruptcy of the Phar-Mor drugstore chain.
Mr. Lack, whose practice focuses on complex and multidistrict litigation, securities litigation, accountants' liability, and commercial litigation, also represented institutional investors in an action against a Big Four accounting firm arising out of its audits of a now-bankrupt company, obtained a jury verdict for a well-known manufacturer of footwear and apparel for losses arising out of an acquisition, and represented a leading Wall Street firm in lawsuits arising out of alleged insider trading by Ivan F. Boesky. He has examined and cross-examined numerous witnesses in jury and bench trials as well as in arbitrations.
Mr. Lack graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University in 1977 and received a master's degree from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1978. He received his law degree magna cum laude in 1981 from Harvard Law School, where he served as Note Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He is the author of Note, Venue for Judicial Review of Administrative Actions: A New Approach, 93 Harv. L. Rev. 1735 (1980). As a visiting student at Columbia Law School, Mr. Lack was awarded the Whitney North Seymour Medal for Trial Advocacy. After law school, he clerked for The Honorable Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and was a litigator at Sullivan & Cromwell. He is also admitted in New Jersey.
Mr. Lack is a member of the Securities Litigation Committee of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association. He previously served as a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Committee on Antitrust and Trade Regulation and Committee on Federal Courts. Mr. Lack recently spoke on "Emerging Litigation Involving Accounting Firms" at the first annual conference of the American College of Business Court Judges at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He is listed in Law & Politics' New York Super Lawyers and New Jersey Super Lawyers editions for 2006 and 2007, and is included in the Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition for 2008, which lists lawyers who designate business litigation as their primary area of practice.
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