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Mark Solomon earned his law degrees at Trinity College, Cambridge University, England (1985), Harvard Law School (1986), and the Inns of Court School of Law, England (1987). He is admitted to the Bar of England and Wales (Barrister), Ohio and California, as well as to various United States Federal District and Appellate Courts. Mr. Solomon regularly represents both United States - and United Kingdom - based pension funds and asset managers in class and non-class securities litigation. Mr. Solomon is a founding partner of Coughlin Stoia.
Before studying law in England, Mr. Solomon served as a British police officer. After qualifying as a barrister, he first practiced at the international firm Jones Day in Cleveland, Ohio (1987-1990), followed by practice at the Los Angeles office of New York's Stroock & Stroock & Lavan (1990-1993). At those firms, Mr. Solomon's representations included the defense of securities fraud and other white-collar crimes, antitrust, copyright, commercial and real estate litigation and reinsurance arbitration. While practicing in Los Angeles, acting for plaintiffs, Mr. Solomon took to trial and won complex commercial contract and real estate actions in the Orange County and Los Angeles Superior Courts, respectively.
Since 1993, Mr. Solomon has spearheaded the prosecution of many significant cases. He has obtained substantial recoveries and judgments for plaintiffs through settlement, summary adjudications and trial. He litigated, through trial, In re Helionetics, where he and his trial partner, Paul Howes, won a unanimous $15.4 million jury verdict in November 2000. He has successfully led many other cases, among them: Schwartz v. TXU ($150 million recovery plus significant corporate governance reforms); In re Informix Corp. Sec. Litig. ($142 million recovery); Rosen v. Macromedia, Inc. ($48 million recovery); In re Community Psychiatric Ctrs. Sec. Litig. ($42.5 million recovery); In re Advanced Micro Devices Sec. Litig. ($34 million recovery); In re Tele-Communications, Inc. Sec. Litig. ($33 million recovery); In re Home Theater Sec. Litig. ($22.5 million judgment); In re Diamond Multimedia Sec. Litig. ($18 million recovery); Hayley v. Parker ($16.4 million recovery); In re Gupta Corp. Sec. Litig. ($15 million recovery); In re Radius Sec. Litig.; In re SuperMac Tech., Inc. Sec. Litig. (combined recovery of $14 million); Markus v. The North Face ($12.5 million recovery); In re Brothers Gourmet Coffees, Inc. Sec. Litig. ($9 million recovery); Anderson v. EFTC ($9 million recovery); In re Flir Sys. Inc. Sec. Litig. ($6 million recovery); In re Nike, Inc. Sec. Litig. ($8.9 million recovery); Sharma v. Insignia ($8 million recovery); and In re Medeva Sec. Litig. ($6.75 million recovery).
Mr. Solomon chaired the American Bar Association Directors and Officers Liability Sub-Committee and the Accountants Liability Sub-Committee between 1996 and 2001.
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