Attorneys
Sam Lieberman
Of Counsel
Sam Lieberman is Of Counsel in the firm’s Litigation Group. He has extensive experience handling all stages of high-profile securities class actions, complex commercial litigation, and government investigations. Mr. Lieberman has served as lead counsel presenting argument on behalf of clients at the trial and appellate levels. In addition, he has represented individuals and investment advisers in civil and criminal investigations by the SEC and the U.S. Attorney’s office.
Mr. Lieberman has litigated securities actions on behalf of plaintiffs and defendants involving a wide array of matters, including subprime mortgage-backed securities, stock option backdating, market-timing, late-trading, accounting irregularities, insider trading, market manipulation, channel-stuffing, and alleged false financial disclosures. He has also handled numerous mergers and acquisitions disputes involving key issues of corporate governance and shareholder rights. In addition, Mr. Lieberman has represented clients in SEC and U.S. Attorney’s office investigations in various matters including alleged securities fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion.
Prior to joining Sadis & Goldberg, Mr. Lieberman worked at leading plaintiffs and defense firms, including Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman and Cravath Swaine & Moore. Before entering private practice, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Raymond C. Fisher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Mr. Lieberman is a member of the Securities Litigation and Trial Practice Committees of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section, and is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. His civic activities include serving as a member of the American Technion Society’s Leadership Development Committee and the New York Lawyers’ Division of the Anti-Defamation League.
Education
- Columbia Law School (J.D. 1999; Kent Scholar, Senior Editor, Columbia Law Review); Binghamton University (B.A. 1996)
Admitted
- New York; U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fifth and Ninth Circuits.
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