Milberg Weiss

Founding and History Founded in 1965 by attorneys Larry Milberg and Melvyn I. Weiss, Milberg LLP (formerly known as Milberg Weiss LLP and Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman LLP) is a U.S. plaintiffs' law firm. In the Firm’s early years, its founding partners built a new area of legal practice in representing shareholders’ interests under the then recently amended Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which allowed securities fraud cases, among others, to proceed as class actions. Based in New York City and with offices in Los Angeles, Tampa and Detroit, Milberg is widely known as one of the first law firms to represent investors in class actions in federal courts. It focuses on litigation involving securities fraud, shareholder...