Background
Finberg, James Michael was born on September 6, 1958 in Baltimore. Son of Laurence and Harriet (Levinson) Finberg.
Finberg, James Michael was born on September 6, 1958 in Baltimore. Son of Laurence and Harriet (Levinson) Finberg.
Brown University (Bachelor of Arts, 1980). University of Chicago (Juris Doctor, 1983). Executive Editor, University of Chicago Law Review, 1982-1983.
Law Clerk to Justice Charles L. Levin, Michigan Supreme Court, 1983-1984.
Worked at Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, Limited Liability Partnership. Admitted to the bar, 1984, California and United States. District Court, Northern District of California.
1987, United States. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, United States.
Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit and United States. District Court, Eastern District of California.
1988, United States. District Court, District of Hawaii.
1992, United States. District Court, Central District of California, United States. District Court, Southern District of California and United States.
Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit. 1994, United States. Supreme Court.
Executive Editor, University of Chicago Law Review, 1982-1983.
Law Clerk to Justice Charles L. Levin, Michigan Supreme Court, 1983-1984. Author: Comment, "The General Mining Law and The Doctrine of Pedis Possessio: The Case Foreign Congressional Action," 49 U.Chi.L.Rev. 1027 (1982). Company-Author (with George C. Weickhardt): "New Push Foreign Chemical Weapons," Bulletin. of the Atomic Scientist (November 1986).
Company-Author (with Melvin R. Goldman): "Deposing Expert Witnesses," Taking Depositions, American Bar Association (1989).
Member, Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. Finance Chair, Lawyers" Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Member: State Bar of California (Member, Standing Committee, Legal Services to the Poor, 1990-1995. Vice Chair, 1994).
Lieff, Cabraser & Heimann was founded in 1972 and for the past 25 years has specialized exclusively in litigation involving securities fraud, antitrust, consumer fraud, products liability, toxic claims and environmental issues, employment discrimination, and other mass tort class actions on behalf of plaintiffs throughout the United States.
During the past 13 years, the firm has tried and settled approximately 120 class actions involving approximately ten million individuals, resulting in verdicts or settlements of over $6.5 billion.
Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein has served as court-appointed Plaintiff Class Counsel in more than 100 certified class actions, including over 50 securities class actions, and is currently serving in that capacity in multi-district and complex federal litigations pending in Alabama, Alaska, California, Minnesota, Ohio, Oregon, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wyoming as well as state court litigation in Alabama, California, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas.
Member American Bar Association (chairman securities subcommittee class and derivative action committee since 1998), American Civil Liberties Union (board directors Northern California chapter 1995), Bar Association San Francisco (board directors since 1999, judicial evaluation committee 1994, board directors since 1998), California Bar Association (member standing commission on legal services to poor 1990-1994, vice-chairman 1993-1994), Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco Bay Area (board directors 1992-1998, finance chairman 1992-1995, secretary 1996, co-chairman 1997-1998).
Married Marian D. Keeler, June 28, 1986.