SQUITIERI & FEARON - Key Persons
Lee Squitieri is a partner of Squitieri & Fearon, LLP. Mr. Squitieri represents stockholders, consumers and pension plan participants in complex class actions and individual lawsuits throughout the United States. His primary practice involves pursuing class actions on behalf of investors and retirement plans. He has received an "AV" rating by Martindale Hubbell, indicating the highest level of professional excellence and was named a "Super Lawyer" for the New York Metro area in 2010.
Mr. Squitieri has successfully litigated class actions in the antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, ERISA, consumer and labor areas of practice. Mr. Squitieri has also successfully prosecuted private and class action securities fraud and other types of claims on behalf of large investors. Mr Squitieri has obtained significant recoveries for diverse clients such as an improperly terminated attorney at a large prominent law firm; a wrongfully terminated executive of a Fortune 500 company alleging race discrimination whose case Mr. Squitieri tried to a jury for five days before a settlement was reached and has defended through trial and jury verdict a former CEO of a multi-national food retailer, wholesaler, manufacturer and distributor against charges of self-dealing, mismanagement and bad faith. Currently, Mr. Squitieri is currently court appointed lead counsel in such major matters, among others, as an antitrust class action suit against Live Nation alleging monopolization of the concert promotion business; a shareholders' derivative lawsuit against CA, Inc.'s former officers and directors for breach of their duties; an ERISA suit against the fiduciaries of AIG's various pension plans for losses of hundreds of millions of dollars of pension assets. Mr. Squitieri is also representing institutional investors against Royal Bank of Canada in a fraud and fiduciary breach action arising out of the Canadian Norsheild investment scandal in 2005 and private investors in a fraud and fiduciary breach action against a notorious Madoff "feeder" fund.
Since he began practicing law, Mr. Squitieri has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for the people he has represented, in many class actions and individual lawsuits.
Practice Areas
ERISA/Retirement Benefits Class Actions
Paul Sweeny joined Squitieri & Fearon as an associate in August 2014. Paul is a graduate of Brooklyn Law School, where he was an associate managing editor for the Brooklyn Law Review. During Law School, Paul interned at both the Kings County and Queens County District Attorney's Office. He also interned at TAMKO Building Products, Inc. and the New York State Office of the Attorney General.
Education
Juris Doctor (J.D.), Brooklyn Law School, cum laude, 2013
Master of Science (M.S) in Taxation, Long Island University, cum laude, 2010
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Accounting, La Salle University, 2009
Job Titles:
- Member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100
Stephen J. Fearon, Jr. is a partner of Squitieri & Fearon, LLP. His primary practice involves pursuing class actions on behalf of investors, consumers, and retirement plans in courts across the country. He has received an "AV" rating by Martindale Hubbell, indicating the highest level of professional excellence. He has also been voted by his peers as one of the top lawyers in New York for handling mass torts and is included in the The Best Lawyers in America.
Mr. Fearon is a member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, an invitation-only organization composed of premier trial lawyers who meet stringent qualifications as civil plaintiff trial lawyers. He also has been designated as a "Top 25" of Class Action Trial Lawyers and "Top 25" of Mass Tort Trial Lawyers and is honored to be a member of those invitation-only groups.
Since he began practicing law, Mr. Fearon has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for the people he has represented in many class actions and individual lawsuits.
Mr. Fearon has represented injured people and their families in pharmaceutical and medical device lawsuits and has successfully recovered the retirement savings for employees who invested in their employer's stock through employer-sponsored retirement plans. Many of the cases were brought against employers who continued to offer company stock as a retirement investment when there was a serious, undisclosed problem with the company that made it imprudent to invest retirement assets in company stock.
Mr. Fearon currently is lead counsel for investors and consumers in many large, nationwide class actions.
Mr. Fearon has been appointed by the Southern District of New York as a Mediator. In that role, he has helped parties resolve complex civil litigation through court-ordered mediation. Most recently, he has successfully mediated discrimination cases and employment lawsuits in the Southern District of New York.
Practice Areas
Consumer Fraud Litigation