Background
Milstein, Herbert E. was born in 1936 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Milstein, Herbert E. was born in 1936 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Harvard University (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1958). Columbia University (Bachelor of Laws, 1961).
Worked at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Professional limited liability company (Washington, District of Columbia) specializing in General Civil Trial and Appellate Practice in State and Federal Courts. Antitrust and Unfair Trade Practices, Securities, Consumer Product Liability, Franchising, Mass Torts, and Toxic Tort Litigation. Complex, Multi-District and Class Action Litigation.
Admitted to the bar, 1961, Massachusetts and District of Columbia.
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, 1980-1987. Attorney, 1965-1967, Special Counsel, 1968, Assistant Chief Enforcement Attorney, 1969 and Chief Enforcement Attorney, 1970, Division of Corporate Regulation, Securities and Exchange Commission.
Equity Receiver, Securities and Exchange Commission v. National American Life Insurance Company, United States.
District Court for the District of Columbia, 1976-1980.
The firm is one of a handful of firms in the United States litigating plaintiffs" class actions as a regular part of its business, with a specialty in antitrust, securities, environmental toxic tort, consumer, and product liability cases. The firm has been involved in many of the major complex class action cases litigated in the United States and has a national reputation in this area. Members of the firm have concluded numerous securities and antitrust class actions in which they have played a principal or lead role or served on the Executive Committee of plaintiffs" counsel