On January 27, 2012 Judge Arthur D. Spatt of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York approved of the appointment of Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP to serve as lead counsel in this consolidated securities class action. The action was brought on behalf of investors who purchased the publicly traded securities of Gentiva Health Services, Inc. between July 31, 2008 and October 4, 2011...

On August 26, 2011, U.S. District Court Judge Nancy Gertner found summary judgment “wholly inappropriate” and denied Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Credit Suisse (USA), Inc. (together “CSFB”), Frank Quattrone, Elliott Rogers, Jamie Kiggen and Laura Martin’s (collectively “Defendants”) motions in In re Credit Suisse-AOL Sec. Litig., No. 02-cv-12146 (D. Mass.)...

On January 19, 2012, Judge Reed C. O’Connor of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas approved of the appointment of Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP to serve as co-lead counsel in this securities class action.  The action was brought on behalf of purchasers of securities of Penson Worldwide, Inc. (“Penson”) common stock during the period of February 10, 2011 through August 4, 2011...

In his first decision in a securities fraud case of this magnitude, U.S. District Court Judge P. Kevin Castel issued a 140-page opinion on August 27, 2010, substantially upholding the Amended Complaint in In re Bank of America Corp. Securities, Derivative and “ERISA” Litigation, No. 09-MD-2058 (S.D.N.Y.).