Reed R. Kathrein
(510) 725-3000
Reed@hbsslaw.com

Mr. Kathrein is the managing partner in Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro's San Francisco office. He has more than 30 years of experience in complex litigation in securities fraud, consumer and antitrust class actions. Since 1988, Mr. Kathrein has focused his practice on representing individual investors and institutions, such as public pension funds and Taft Hartley funds, in complex and class action litigation, principally involving securities fraud. Over the past two decades, Mr. Kathrein has litigated more than 100 state as well as federal court class actions, nationwide, which have recovered more than one billion dollars on behalf of investors.

Mr. Kathrein served as chairman of the Private International Law Committee of the American Bar Association from 1984 to 1990, as a director and officer of the International Business Counsel Mid-America from 1983 to 1988, where he also chaired the policy committee. He acted as an advisor to the U.S. State Department's Advisory Committee on Private International Law from 1984 to 1990.

Since moving to California in 1988, Mr. Kathrein has served on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Securities and Commercial Law Attorneys (NASCAT), and from 1998 to 2008 he served on the Board of Governors of the Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC).

Recently Mr. Kathrein has served the United States District Court for the Northern District of California as co-chair of the Securities Working Group in California and was tasked by Chief Justices Marilyn Hall Patel and Vaughn Walker to propose and assist in revising the Court's local securities fraud class actions rules. He was appointed by Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker to be a member and then chair the Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in 2006 and 2008. In 2009, he began service as a lawyer representative to the Judicial Conferences of the United States District Court for Northern District of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Kathrein is a frequent lecturer on topics involving investor and consumer fraud. He is an annual speaker at the Practicing Law Institute's Securities Litigation and Enforcement Institute.

Mr. Kathrein earned his bachelor's degree in economics and politics of Latin America, and received his law degree from the University of Miami. He also attended Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Mexico City.

Peter E. Borkon
(510) 725-3000
Peterb@hbsslaw.com

Mr. Borkon is an associate at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro's San Francisco office where he has worked since 2007. His practice is focused on complex civil litigation, particularly securities and antitrust class actions and shareholder derivative suits. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law.

Mr. Borkon was a key team member in In re Homestore Securities Litigation, resulting in settlements valued at more than $100 million. Mr. Borkon was also instrumental at drafting the complaint, defeating multiple motions to dismiss and motions for summary judgment.

Mr. Borkon recently served as the Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the AIDS Legal Referral Panel and serves as a member of the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedoms Judicial Review Committee. He was also a Steinberg Leadership Fellow with the Anti-Defamation League.

Mr. Borkon graduated from DePauw University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He earned his law degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1996. Since that time, he has actively engaged in the practice of law at the trial and appellate levels. Mr. Borkon clerked for the Chief Judge of the Southern District of Illinois as well as for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Borkon is admitted to practice law in Illinois and California. He is also admitted to practice before all federal courts in the states of California and Illinois as well as the Supreme Court of the United States and the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin and the District of Colorado.

Steve W. Berman

Mr. Berman helped to found the firm in 1993, and is the managing partner. He has served as lead or co-lead counsel in securities, consumer, products liability, antitrust, employment class actions, and complex litigations in the Northwest and throughout the country. Some of the high-profile matters Mr. Berman has prosecuted include the Washington Public Power Supply System, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Michael Milken Litigation, Enron Litigation, Tobacco Litigation, and the Visa/MasterCard Litigation.

Mr. Berman's successes include obtaining a settlement of $92 million in the Boeing Securities Litigation, representing stock and bondholders in the Bonneville Pacific Securities Litigation which resulted in settlements exceeding $30 million. In the WPPSS Securities Litigation, Mr. Berman represented bond purchasers in the largest securities trial in U.S. history. In addition to being a member of the trial team, the lead counsel designated him as a core group member alongside a group of class plaintiffs and Chemical Bank attorneys charged with prosecuting the case. The case resulted in a settlement exceeding $850 million, the largest recovery in a securities class action at the time.

In April 2000, the National Law Journal listed Mr. Berman as the top litigator in the state and, in June, named him as one of the 100 most powerful lawyers in the nation. In January 2001, Seattle Magazine featured him in an issue profiling the top lawyers in Seattle. In June 2006, the National Law Journal once again named Mr. Berman as one of the nation's 100 most influential lawyers in America. Mr. Berman was also named as a finalist for the Trial Lawyer of the Year award for 2006 by The Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.

Mr. Berman graduated from the University of Michigan in 1976 and earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1980.