5/22/2014 - Thomson Reuters, which publishes the annual Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine, has named several Barrack, Rodos & Bacine attorneys to its prestigious Super Lawyers list for 2014.  Senior Founding Partner Leonard Barrack and partners Jeffrey W. Golan and Mark R.

4/4/2014 - Barrack, Rodos & Bacine announces that it has filed a class action lawsuit in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware on behalf of the public stockholders of Schawk, Inc. against the company’s board of directors and controlling shareholders for breaches of fiduciary duties arising out of the sale of Schawk to Matthews International Corp.

3/7/2014 - In a recent noteworthy decision, Vice Chancellor Travis J. Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery addressed the issue of aiding and abetting liability for investment banks in the context of a merger.  After a four-day trial in a case challenging the Warburg Pincus acquisition of Rural/Metro for inadequate consideration, the Chancery Court found RBC Capital, Rural/Metro’s investment bank, liable for aiding and abetting the company’s directors in breaching their fiduciary duties to Rural/Metro’s shareholders.

1/16/2014 - In 2005, a month before the WorldCom case was set to go to trial, BR&B client, the New York State Common Retirement Fund, reached a settlement with ten of the twelve non-management WorldCom board member defendants.  The settlement required these defendants to pay money from their own pockets in settlement of the claims of purchasers of WorldCom bonds.  As noted in a recent book review in The Wall Street Journal, experts in the field of corporate governance view the settlement with the non-management WorldCom board members as a landmark achievement in