MF Global Judge Urges Plaintiffs’ Lawyers to Get Organized
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The judge who may oversee investor lawsuits against Jon Corzine, MF Global Holdings Ltd.’s former chief executive officer, and separate cases filed by customers of the firm suggested that plaintiffs’ lawyers organize themselves to push the suits forward.
“Something big happened at MF Global last December,” U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero said at an initial conference today in Manhattan federal court, where dozens of lawyers in at least three set of lawsuits gathered. “Whether the case is in New York or Chicago or somewhere else, you’re going to need a leadership structure.”