Steve 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, and gaining approval of a $290 million settlement in the Louisiana Pacific Siding Litigation, the largest product liability settlement in Pacific Northwest history. 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.