Korein Tillery Names Four New Partners
St. Louis, Missouri (PRWEB) April 23, 2014 -- Korein Tillery, a national litigation firm with offices in Chicago and St. Louis, is pleased to announce that Steven Berezney, Giuseppe Giardina, Michael Klenov, and Tamara Spicer have been named as partners.
• Steve Berezney handles high-stakes commercial, antitrust, and intellectual property litigation. He has litigated cases against several Wall Street investment banks for misrepresenting residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”). He is currently litigating an antitrust case involving the manipulation of foreign currency exchange rates. (Haverhill Retirement v. Barclays et al., 1:13-cv-07789-LGS, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York)
• Giuseppe Giardina has over 10 years of litigation experience, concentrating his practice on complex commercial and securities litigation arising out of the collapse of the mortgage-backed securities market. He is currently involved in several high-profile cases, including claims on behalf of thousands of former minor league baseball players against Major League Baseball for violating wage and overtime laws. (Senne v. MLB, 14-cv-00608-JCS, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California)
• Michael Klenov concentrates his practice on high-stakes antitrust, securities, and ERISA litigation. He has been appointed lead counsel in several nationwide class actions and has helped negotiate a number of multi-million dollar settlements, including a $105 million dollar settlement on behalf of public water providers that earned him and several of his colleagues a nomination for the Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from Public Justice. (HSSD v. Syngenta, 2004-L-000710, Illinois Circuit Court) Michael currently represents several public and private clients in multi-billion-dollar RMBS litigation across the country.
• Tamara Spicer has over a decade of experience in complex civil litigation in the areas of commercial contracts, business torts, securities, intellectual property, and antitrust. In 2012 Tami was part of a trial team that won a $1 billion patent infringement judgment that at the time was the largest in Missouri history. (Monsanto v. DuPont, 4:09CV00686, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri) She is currently prosecuting a number of high-profile RMBS cases across the country.
Korein Tillery Senior Partner Stephen M. Tillery welcomed the four new partners to the firm: “Our firm has never been stronger. In this litigation environment, only the most skilled, dedicated, and resourceful trial firms will survive. With the addition of Steve, Giuseppe, Michael, and Tami as partners, I’m confident that Korein Tillery will continue to thrive.”
Korein Tillery is an AV-rated, award-winning law firm with offices in Chicago and St. Louis. The firm has recovered billions of dollars in verdicts and settlements, gaining a national reputation for aggressively and successfully pursuing a wide variety of complex civil cases. Korein Tillery was named by the National Law Journal to its "Plaintiffs' Hot List"—honoring the nation’s top plaintiffs’ firms—in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, and 2013.
Jerry Brown, Korein Tillery LLC, http://www.KoreinTillery.com, +1 (314) 241-4844, [email protected]
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