Julie Goldsmith Reiser
Julie Goldsmith Reiser, a Partner at the Firm, joined Cohen Milstein in 1999. Ms. Reiser is a member of the Securities Fraud/Investor Protection and Civil Rights & Employment Practice Groups. Ms. Reiser has extensive experience with motion practice, developing and implementing discovery strategies, depositions, expert discovery and case resolution.
Ms. Reiser focuses much of her practice on enforcement of the federal securities laws on behalf of sophisticated domestic and international institutional investors. She has represented these investors in class action and individual “opt-out” securities litigation as well as in transaction-related litigation in Delaware Chancery Court.
Ms. Reiser currently works on several active securities fraud actions seeking to return to investors’ monies lost due to corporate fraud. She acts as co-lead counsel in representing investors in the largest fraud in European corporate history, In re Parmalat Sec. Litig. (S.D.N.Y.). In that case, she represents Italian, French and Belgian institutions. She also acted as co-lead counsel in In re SCOR Holding (Switzerland) Securities Litigation (S.D.N.Y.) and was a member of the team representing Pacific Life Insurance Company in an opt-out action against WorldCom.
In the employment area, Ms. Reiser is a member of the legal team working on Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (N.D. Cal.), the largest Title VII class action that has ever been certified, for current and former female employees of Wal-Mart with complaints of discrimination in pay and promotion. Ms. Reiser also represents African American employees who claimed that Kroger discriminated against them in pay and promotions in Wade v. Kroger (W.D. Ky.). She was involved in the litigation and successful settlement of Beck v. The Boeing Co. (W. D. Wash.), which alleged sex discrimination in compensation and promotions and was successfully resolved for $72.5 million.
Ms. Reiser co-authored Opt-Outs: Making Private Enforcement of the Securities Laws Even Better, featured in the Winter/Spring 2008 edition of the ABA's Class Action and Derivative Suit Committee Newsletter. She also co-authored Companies in the Cross Hairs: When Plaintiffs Lawyers Choose Their Targets, They Look for These Employment Practices, The Legal Times, February 21, 2005. In 1999, she co-authored Antitrust Introduction for the General Practitioner, a chapter in the Washington Lawyer’s Practice Manual.
Prior to joining Cohen Milstein, Ms. Reiser worked in Seattle. She was President of the Board of Directors of Seattle Works and on the Executive Committee for the Board of Directors of the Eastside Domestic Violence Program. She also served a term as a Trustee for the Pacific Northwest Ballet. In 1997, Ms. Reiser worked as a Legal Intern for U.S. Senator Patty Murray.
Ms. Reiser graduated from Vassar College (B.A. with honors 1992) and the University of Virginia Law School (J.D. 1997). While in law school, she was a member of the Virginia Journal of Law and Social Policy.
Ms. Reiser is admitted to practice in Washington State and the District of Columbia.
Contact: jreiser@cmht.com
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