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Biography
Joseph J. Tabacco, Jr. is the managing partner of Berman DeValerio’s San Francisco office. A 1974 honors graduate of George Washington University School of Law, he actively litigates antitrust, securities fraud, commercial high tech, and intellectual property matters.
Mr. Tabacco is a primary point of contact for many of Berman DeValerio’s institutional clients, including the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the Offices of the Attorneys General of Alaska, Michigan, and other states.
Since entering private practice in the early 1980s, Mr. Tabacco has served as trial or lead counsel in numerous antitrust and securities cases and has been involved in all aspects of state and federal litigation. Prior to 1981, Mr. Tabacco served as senior trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and in both the Central District of California and the Southern District of New York. In that capacity, he had major responsibility for several criminal and civil matters, including the antitrust trial of U.S. v. IBM. Since entering private practice, he has tried a number of securities actions, including Gutman v. Howard Savings Bank and In re Equitec Sec. Litig.
Mr. Tabacco is currently overseeing a number of securities and antitrust cases, including CalPERS v. Moody's Corp., a pioneering attempt to hold credit rating agencies financially responsible for their alleged negligence in rating Structured Investment Vehicles; In re New Motor Vehicles Canadian Export Antitrust Litig., a massive case against the large auto manufacturers; and a class action against diamond giant DeBeers.
In addition to his role providing legal counsel to public pension and union fund clients, Mr. Tabacco is an independent director of Overstock.com, a publicly traded company, and serves on its Audit and Compensation Committees. He also frequently lectures and authors articles on securities and antitrust law issues and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Mr. Tabacco is also a former teaching fellow of the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C., and has served on the faculty of ALI-ABA on programs about U.S.-Canadian business litigation and trial of complex securities cases.
Mr. Tabacco was recently recognized and featured by the Daily Journal as one of California’s top 30 securities litigators, a group chosen from both the plaintiff and defense bars. For the third year in a row, he has been among the top U.S. securities litigators ranked by Chambers USA 2009 and is also AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Additionally, for three consecutive years, Mr. Tabacco has been named a Super Lawyer by Northern California Super Lawyer Magazine, which features the top 5 percent of attorneys in the region.
Mr. Tabacco has been admitted to practice law in the states of California, Massachusetts, New York, and the District of Columbia.
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