CALIFORNIA CIVIL TRIAL LAWYERS |
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Joseph W. Cotchett |
Attorney Cotchett has taken on major
corporate entities and Wall Street. He and his firm are involved in
litigation resulting from nearly every major corporate scandal including
Enron, Worldcom, Global Crossing, Homestore.com, Qwest, Montana Power Co.
and numerous others on behalf of private investors and public pensions.
Cotchett won mammoth judgments and settlements for investors in white-collar
fraud cases, with jury verdicts of more than $200 million arising out of the
collapse of the Technical Equities Corp. in San Jose. He is known nationally
as the lead trial lawyer for 23,000 plaintiffs in the Lincoln Savings & Loan
Association/American Continental Corp. downfall in 1990 involving Charles
Keating and others. He won one of the then largest jury verdicts, $3.3
billion, which was later reduced to $1.75 billion. He also gained nearly
$300 million in settlements from lawyers, accountants and other
professionals caught up in the scandal in a jury trial in Tucson, AZ. And in
2003 he won a 1.7 billion settlement against El Paso Corp. for manipulating
natural gas prices during the California energy crisis. Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy filed a lawsuit against Madoff in February 2009 for the multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme that wiped out thousands of investors and ruined charities. The lawsuit was filed in New York State Supreme Court. Amongst the defendants named were Bernard Madoff, his wife, Ruth Madoff, his two sons, Andrew and Mark Madoff and brother Peter Madoff. |