Attorneys | Thomas Burt | Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP

New York
270 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10016

Phone:	212-545-4669
Fax:	212-545-4653
Email:	burt@whafh.com

Thomas H. Burt is a partner at Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP. He is a litigator with a practice concentrated in securities class actions and complex commercial litigation. After practicing criminal defense with noted defense lawyer Jack T. Litman for three years, he joined Wolf Haldenstein, where he has worked on such notable cases as:

· In re MicroStrategy Securities Litigation, No. 00-473-A (E.D. Va.), a securities fraud class action resulting in a recovery valued, at the time of settlement, at approximately $192 million;

· In re Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, No. 21 MC 92 (SAS) (S.D.N.Y.), an ongoing case and one of the largest securities fraud cases in history, involving pending settlements for more than $400 million in cash and $1 billion in guarantees, and resulting in more than 500 pages of published opinions and two appeals to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals;

· In re Initial Public Offering Antitrust Litigation, No. 01-cv-2014 (WHP) (S.D.N.Y.), the antitrust companion to the Initial Public Offering Securities Litigation, which is ongoing, which has resulted in an opinion by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the complaint, and where the United States Supreme Court is considering a petition for certiorari;

· In re DRAM Antitrust Litigation, No. 02-cv-1486 (PJH) (N.D. Cal.), an antitrust case with pending settlements valued at more than $150 million; and

· In re Computer Associates 2002 Class Action Securities Litigation, No. 02-cv-1226 (TCP) (E.D.N.Y.), a securities fraud action that settled, together with a related fraud case, for over $133 million.

Mr. Burt received a B.A. in Sociology from American University in Washington, D.C. in 1993, magna cum laude. He then earned his law degree at New York University School of Law in 1997, where he served as an Articles Editor for the Review of Law and Social Change. Mr. Burt is admitted in the State of New York (1998), and in the federal courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York (1998) and the District of Michigan (2006). Mr. Burt has served on the Board of Managers, and as Chair of the Library and Archives Committee, of the St. Andrew’s Society of New York, the oldest charitable organization in New York.