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A national network dedicated to improving U.S. elections presented Berman DeValerio Special Counsel Kevin Shelley with an award for his work to protect “the integrity of the voting process” as California’s Secretary of State.

The Boston office of Berman DeValerio recently sponsored a volunteer excursion to the Greater Boston Food Bank, the largest hunger-relief organization in New England. Twenty-two lawyers and staff participated in the weekday effort, the second the firm has organized to benefit the charitable foundation.

A nonbinding resolution by California lawmakers urging the state’s companies to add women to their boards will not prompt any lawsuits over compliance, but may encourage companies to consider retaining more women directors, a Berman DeValerio partner told the Daily Journal newspaper.

More than 20 law firms from 16 countries, including Berman DeValerio, founded the International Financial Litigation Network this month, a group seeking to promote effective and consistent cross-border remedies for clients involved in global financial disputes.

PHILADELPHIA, May 7, 2013 – The law firm of filed a securities class action lawsuit against UniTek Global Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: UNTK)(“UniTek” or the “Company”) and certain of its officers (collectively, with UniTek, the “Defendants”).

Berman DeValerio’s $40 million agreement with General Electric Company and two GE executives to settle a financial collapse era lawsuit attracted widespread news coverage for the firm, with Bloomberg, Reuters, American Lawyer and Fox Business News writing articles about the result.

A San Francisco federal judge selected Berman DeValerio April 3 to serve as co-lead counsel on behalf of direct purchasers in an antitrust case accusing certain lithium-ion battery makers of price-fixing.

A lawsuit by dairy farmers who contend that a marketing cooperative negligently depressed prices, costing them millions of dollars in lost revenues, is headed back to a California federal court following plaintiffs’ successful appeal of an earlier dismissal.

Berman DeValerio Associate Victor S. Elias was appointed to the Board of Directors of La Raza Centro Legal, a San Francisco community-based legal organization, adding to the number of firm attorneys who are leaders of professional and community groups.

Plaintiffs’ attorneys looking to file new private lawsuits against Standard & Poor’s Financial Services following the U.S. government’s decision to take legal action against the rating agency will face statute of limitations hurdles, Berman DeValerio Partner Todd A. Seaver told a legal publication.

Berman DeValerio is pleased to announce thatKristin J. Moody andMatthew D. Pearson have been named partners of the firm. The promotions recognize the important contributions both attorneys have made to the firm’s success in prosecuting complex securities and antitrust cases.

On December 5, 2012, Berman DeValerio Partner Joseph J. Tabacco, Jr. appeared before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to argue an appeal involving an issue that could have far-reaching consequences for institutional investors who have relied on pending class actions to protect their rights but chosen to remain absent class members. The appeal in In re IndyMac Mortgage-Backed Securities Litigation, S.D.N.Y. 09-Civ.-04583 (LAK), concerns the question of whether the filing of a class action complaint satisfies and/or tolls the statute of repose not only for the named plaintiffs, but also for absentee class members who may later seek to intervene in, or opt out of, the litigation.

Diamond resellers have begun receiving the proceeds of a $295 million antitrust settlement with world-leading diamond producer De Beers after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider longtime objectors’ final attempt to derail the agreement.

Overcoming a major legal hurdle, the Wyoming Retirement System and Wyoming State Treasurer obtained class certification in a federal lawsuit brought on behalf of investors in nine IndyMac mortgage-backed securities offered in 2006 and 2007.

A federal judge has given final approval to $294.9 million in settlements with the Bear Stearns Companies, auditor Deloitte & Touche LLP and certain individual defendants to resolve fraud claims stemming from investment losses suffered in the company’s 2008 collapse.

Ohio’s public pension funds are using an innovative tactic to recoup money they lost in the aftermath of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, suing BP p.l.c. in state court after a U.S. district court judge ruled that federal law does not cover their foreign stock purchases.

In a victory for investors, BP p.l.c. failed to convince a Texas federal judge to dismiss a class-action lawsuit seeking to recover billions of dollars in investment losses related to the company’s massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.