On March 1, 2023, U.S. District Judge Andrew P. Gordon of the District of Nevada granted plaintiffs’ motion for class certification and appointed Pomerantz as Lead Counsel on behalf of the Lead Plaintiffs – John V. Ferris, JoAnn Ferris, Jeffrey Larsen – and the class in Ferris, et al. v. Wynn Resorts Ltd., et al., No. 2:18-cv-00479-APG-DJA (D. Nev.). This securities fraud class action arises from Wynn Resorts Limited’s concealment of a long-running pattern of alleged sexual misconduct by CEO and founder Stephen Wynn against female employees of the company. The alleged misconduct first came to light in January 2018 with the publication of a Wall Street Journal article detailing numerous…
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For the third year running, Pomerantz has been recognized by Benchmark Litigation as one of the top plaintiffs’ securities litigation firms in the United States. Benchmark has also honored individual Pomerantz partners as litigation stars. Following Benchmark’s “most comprehensive” review of the litigation market to date, featuring a reportedly record-breaking number of firms vying for rankings, Benchmark praised Pomerantz’s “prodigious capacity for cases and its tenacity to keep pursuing them.” Specifically, Benchmark cited the “eye-popping $3 billion settlement” with…
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Pomerantz is proud to announce that Partner Murielle Steven Walsh has been selected to join Law360’s newly formed 2022 Securities Editorial Advisory Board. The board will provide Law360 with feedback on its coverage and offer expert insight on how best to shape future coverage of securities litigation, regulation, and enforcement. As a recognized leader in plaintiffs’ securities litigation, Murielle has successfully prosecuted securities class actions and corporate governance cases. Beyond winning substantial financial recoveries for clients and classes of defrauded investors, she has also secured precedential rulings from courts that have made new law…
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On July 28, 2021, U.S. District Judge Andrew P. Gordon of the District of Nevada denied, in part, the defendants’ motions to dismiss the Second Amended Complaint in Ferris, et al. v. Wynn Resorts Ltd., et al., No. 2:18-cv-00479-APG-DJA (D. Nev.), a securities fraud class action suit arising from Wynn Resorts Limited’s concealment of a long-running pattern of alleged sexual misconduct by CEO and founder Stephen Wynn against female employees of the company.
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Pomerantz is proud to announce that Partners Emma Gilmore and Murielle Steven Walsh were named to the New York Law Journal’s annual list of Trailblazers for 2020. The list honors “a handful” of New York lawyers who are “truly agents of change.”
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