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Pomerantz Elevates Omar Jafri to Partner

Pomerantz is proud to announce that attorney Omar Jafri has been promoted to Partner. A member of the Firm’s Securities Litigation Practice Group, who is based in its Chicago office, in just the last few years, Omar has appeared on behalf of investors in over two dozen securities cases, authored over 50 pleadings and briefs, taken and defended over two dozen depositions, and argued numerous substantive motions in the U.S. District Courts as well as multiple appeals in the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Over the last few years, Omar has played a key role in numerous cases where the Firm has achieved significant recoveries for defrauded shareholders as Lead, Co-Lead or Additional Counsel.  Recently, Omar was an integral member of the Firm’s litigation team in a…

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Pomerantz’s Rising Stars Honored by the National Law Journal

Pomerantz is proud to announce that Of Counsel Omar Jafri and associate Daryoush Behbood have been recognized by the National Law Journal as Rising Stars of the Plaintiffs Bar in 2021. In this new category in its Elite Trial Lawyers competition, the National Law Journal honored a select group of lawyers under the age of 40 who “demonstrated repeated success in cutting-edge work on behalf of plaintiffs over the last 18 months [and] possess a solid track record of clients wins over the past three to five years.”

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Pomerantz Elevates Four Attorneys to Of Counsel

Pomerantz LLP is proud to announce the promotions of attorneys Jennifer Banner Sobers, Samuel J. Adams, Veronica V. Montenegro and Omar Jafri to Of Counsel. Jennifer Banner Sobers focuses her practice on securities litigation. She played an integral role on a securities class action that arose from a multi-billion-dollar kickback and bribery scheme involving Brazil’s largest oil company, Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras. The Firm, as sole Lead Counsel, achieved a historic $3 billion settlement on behalf of defrauded…

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