Jeffrey Zwerling
About Jeffrey Zwerling
Mr. Zwerling, a co-founding partner of Zwerling Schachter, has over forty years of legal
experience in civil litigation, real estate, general corporate and commercial matters.
Mr. Zwerling is proficient in all phases of complex class action litigation. He has been the lead
attorney in jury and non-jury trials, mediations, expert discovery, and settlement negotiations.
Mr. Zwerling has negotiated several innovative corporate governance and structural changes in
the resolution of shareholders’ lawsuits.
He has been and is lead counsel or a member of an executive committee in many complex
cases including: In re: Stanford Financial Group Inc. Securities Litigation, Civ. No. 3:09-cv-20487-
N (N.D. Tex.), a securities fraud class action involving purchasers of certificates of deposit
through Stanford International Bank, Ltd., alleged to be a multi-billion dollar international Ponzi
scheme; In re: First BanCorp Securities Litigation, Civ. No. 3:05-cv-02148-GAG (D.P.R.), a
securities fraud class action involving alleged sham mortgage sales transactions among banks in
Puerto Rico in which a $74.25 million settlement was achieved in less than eighteen months of
litigation; Hayman v. PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, 01-CV-1078, (N.D. Ohio), a securities fraud
class action brought on behalf of investors in Telxon Corp. against the company and the
company’s auditors for issuing false opinions on the company’s financial statements. Following
an unprecedented recommendation for a default judgment against PricewaterhouseCoopers,
LLP based on discovery misconduct involv
Education
- Columbia University School of Law, J.D
435 W 116th St, New York, NY 10027 1971 - Lehigh University, B.S. with honors
27 Memorial Dr W, Bethlehem, PA 18015 1968
Practice Areas
- Civil Litigation,
- Real Estate
- General Corporate
- Commercial
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