Robbins Geller Announces 2024 Class of New Partners

This week, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP, one of the world’s top law firms representing investors and consumers in class action litigation, announced its 2024 class of new partners.

The Firm elevated the following lawyers to partner, effective January 1, 2024: Rachel A. Cocalis, Ting H. Liu, and Arthur L. Shingler III.

“We’re honored to welcome these hard-working and committed lawyers to the partnership,” said Darren Robbins, one of the Firm’s managing partners. “They’re going to be leaders in this Firm and in the broader plaintiffs’ bar for years to come.”

• Rachel A. Cocalis is a new partner in the Firm’s San Diego office, where her practice focuses on representing institutional investors in securities fraud litigation. Most recently, Rachel was a member of the Robbins Geller litigation team that secured a key appellate win in a securities fraud class action against HP Inc. and its executives. In reversing dismissal of the case, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit clarified how statutes of limitations apply in federal securities class actions. Rachel was also a member of the Robbins Geller litigation teams that successfully recovered millions of dollars for investors in class actions, including Monroe County Employees’ Retirement System v. The Southern Company (N.D. Ga.) ($87.5 million recovery), In re Morning Song Bird Food Litig. (S.D. Cal) ($85 million recovery), and City of Pontiac General Employees’ Retirement System v. Dell Inc. (W.D. Tex.) ($21 million recovery). Rachel is a graduate of Princeton University, with high honors, and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she graduated magna cum laude.

• Ting H. Liu is a new partner in the Firm’s San Diego office, where she represents large institutional and individual investors. Her practice focuses on complex securities litigation. Most recently, Ting assisted in defeating defendants’ motion to dismiss securities fraud claims in Lamartina v. VMware, Inc. (N.D. Cal.). Ting was a member of the trial team that obtained a $350 million settlement on the eve of trial in Smilovits v. First Solar, Inc., the fifth-largest PSLRA settlement ever recovered in the Ninth Circuit. She was also a member of the Firm’s trial team in Hsu v. Puma Biotechnology, Inc., a securities fraud class action that resulted in a verdict in favor of investors after a two-week jury trial. Ting has been named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine for 2023. Prior to joining the Firm, Ting served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Anthony J. Battaglia of the Southern District of California for two years. Ting earned her Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in English and Communications and a minor in Philosophy from the University of Washington and her Juris Doctor degree from the University of San Diego School of Law.

• Arthur L. Shingler III is a partner in the Firm’s San Diego office, where his practice focuses on complex securities, antitrust, and consumer class action cases. Most recently, he was a core member of the Firm’s litigation team that secured $25 million for indirect purchasers in In re Remicade Antitrust Litigation, in excess of $100 million for a direct-purchaser class in In re Liquid Aluminum Sulfate Antitrust Litigation, and over $600 million for consumers and third-party payors in the nationwide EpiPen antitrust and marketing litigation. He also serves on the Firm’s team representing various U.S. communities in litigation arising from the nation’s opioid crisis. In the nationwide opioid litigation, the Firm has helped secure, together with co-counsel, over $50 billion for communities that were harmed. Arthur is a graduate of Point Loma Nazarene College (cum laude) and Boston University School of Law.

“We’re obviously very proud of this group. They represent the next generation of leaders that excels at the kind of trial work that really defines what we uniquely offer our clients,” said Paul J. Geller, a managing partner of the Firm. “We’re proud to call them our partners,” he added.

About Robbins Geller

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP is one of the world’s leading complex litigation firms, representing plaintiffs in securities fraud, shareholder derivative, antitrust, corporate takeover, and consumer fraud and privacy cases. With 200 lawyers in 10 offices, Robbins Geller is one of the world’s largest plaintiffs’ firms, and the Firm’s attorneys have obtained many of the largest securities, antitrust, and consumer class action recoveries in history.

The Firm is ranked #1 on the most recent ISS Securities Class Action Services Top 50 Report for recovering more than $1.75 billion for investors in 2022 — the third year in a row Robbins Geller tops the list. And in those three years alone, Robbins Geller recovered nearly $5.3 billion for investors, more than double the amount recovered by any other plaintiffs’ firm. The Firm secured the largest-ever securities fraud class action settlement — $7.2 billion — in In re Enron Corp. Securities Litigation.

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