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Robert J. Lack's practice focuses on complex and multidistrict litigation, securities litigation, accountants' liability, and commercial litigation. He represented a litigation trust in recovering $77 million from major broker-dealers in a case alleging contract, tort, and antitrust violations arising out of the sale and liquidation of complex derivative securities. Mr. Lack also represented institutional investors in a $30 million action against a Big Four accounting firm arising out of its audits of a now-bankrupt company.
Mr. Lack served as counsel for a well-known manufacturer of footwear and apparel in a three-week trial in New York state court in which the jury awarded $26 million to the manufacturer for losses arising out of an acquisition. He also represented the same client in two related federal securities cases. He served as counsel to a major institutional investor in a $200 million securities fraud and accountants' liability case arising from the bankruptcy of the Phar-Mor drugstore chain, and represented a leading Wall Street firm in lawsuits arising out of alleged insider trading by Ivan F. Boesky.
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.
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 also admitted in New Jersey.
Recent News Involving Robert J. Lack
Twelve FKSA Partners Selected as New York "Super Lawyers"
FKSA Wins NASD Arbitration Against Merrill Lynch
NJ Court Rules Imputation Doctrine Does Not Bar Suit Against Auditors
Supreme Court Rules State-law Securities "Holder" Class Actions Are
Pre-empted
Lack Speaks on Accountants' Liability Litigation at Judges' Conference
Landmark Synagogue Resolves Litigation Over 1998 Fire
Granite Funds' Recoveries Exceed $70 Million
Court Rules Fund Claims Can Go to Trial
Firm Counsels Ben & Jerry's Financial Advisor in Unilever Transaction
Partners Address Programs on Derivatives, White-Collar Crime, Securities Litigation.
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