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Elizabeth Berney
Of Counsel
lberney@zlk.com
(212) 363-7500 x106
Court, 1979; United States Court of Claims, 1979; United States Supreme Court, 2002; United States District
Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 2004; United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 2008. Education:
Cornell University, B.S., with honors, 1975; The University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1978. Ms. Berney, mainly
through associations with prior firms, was an active member of the plaintiffs’ legal teams in numerous leading
securities fraud, consumer, and human rights class actions, including: the Enron (S.D. Tex.), Xerox (D. Conn.),
Tellabs (N.D. Ill., 7th Cir., U.S. S. Ct.) and Parmalat (S.D.N.Y.) securities fraud cases; the Yahoo (Del. Ch.)
shareholder litigation; the Ford Explorer/Firestone Tire (N.D. Ind., 7th Cir., U.S. S. Ct.) litigation, the Mattel (C.D.
Cal.) toy safety derivative litigation; and the Holocaust Assets (E.D.N.Y., S.D.N.Y.) cases. In addition to her
litigation work, Ms. Berney has led investigations which uncovered fraud in several securities cases, including
Xybernaut (E.D. Va.). Ms. Berney is the co-author of Restoring Investor Trust in Auditing Standards and Accounting
Principles, published in the Harvard Journal of Legislation (Winter, 2004). She also has written extensive
materials for legal seminars and speeches. She served as a guest lecturer for a Cardozo Law School ethics
class, a Harvard Law School corporations class, and was a featured speaker and panelist for the Women’s
National Book Association. Previously, she worked at Dewey Ballantine in the tax and municipal bonds fields,
where she obtained the rulings needed to finance construction of the Intrepid Museum; at Gilbert Segall and
Young (which has since merged into Holland & Knight), where she focused on foreign sovereign immunities and
general commercial litigation; as in-house counsel for a college; and in her own legal and literary practice, where
she negotiated agreements for computer companies and notable authors. Ms. Berney ran for U.S. Congress in
2008 in New York’s 5th Congressional District, located in northeast Queens and northern Nassau County, Long
Island. She is a member of the New York City Bar Association and is an occasional volunteer legal adviser to the
Marcel Marceau Foundation for the Advancement of Mime. She was a violinist in the New York City Bar
Association Lawyers’ Orchestra until the orchestra disbanded in mid-2008, and is currently a member of the
Doctors’ Orchestral Society.
Of Counsel
lberney@zlk.com
(212) 363-7500 x106
Court, 1979; United States Court of Claims, 1979; United States Supreme Court, 2002; United States District
Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 2004; United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 2008. Education:
Cornell University, B.S., with honors, 1975; The University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1978. Ms. Berney, mainly
through associations with prior firms, was an active member of the plaintiffs’ legal teams in numerous leading
securities fraud, consumer, and human rights class actions, including: the Enron (S.D. Tex.), Xerox (D. Conn.),
Tellabs (N.D. Ill., 7th Cir., U.S. S. Ct.) and Parmalat (S.D.N.Y.) securities fraud cases; the Yahoo (Del. Ch.)
shareholder litigation; the Ford Explorer/Firestone Tire (N.D. Ind., 7th Cir., U.S. S. Ct.) litigation, the Mattel (C.D.
Cal.) toy safety derivative litigation; and the Holocaust Assets (E.D.N.Y., S.D.N.Y.) cases. In addition to her
litigation work, Ms. Berney has led investigations which uncovered fraud in several securities cases, including
Xybernaut (E.D. Va.). Ms. Berney is the co-author of Restoring Investor Trust in Auditing Standards and Accounting
Principles, published in the Harvard Journal of Legislation (Winter, 2004). She also has written extensive
materials for legal seminars and speeches. She served as a guest lecturer for a Cardozo Law School ethics
class, a Harvard Law School corporations class, and was a featured speaker and panelist for the Women’s
National Book Association. Previously, she worked at Dewey Ballantine in the tax and municipal bonds fields,
where she obtained the rulings needed to finance construction of the Intrepid Museum; at Gilbert Segall and
Young (which has since merged into Holland & Knight), where she focused on foreign sovereign immunities and
general commercial litigation; as in-house counsel for a college; and in her own legal and literary practice, where
she negotiated agreements for computer companies and notable authors. Ms. Berney ran for U.S. Congress in
2008 in New York’s 5th Congressional District, located in northeast Queens and northern Nassau County, Long
Island. She is a member of the New York City Bar Association and is an occasional volunteer legal adviser to the
Marcel Marceau Foundation for the Advancement of Mime. She was a violinist in the New York City Bar
Association Lawyers’ Orchestra until the orchestra disbanded in mid-2008, and is currently a member of the
Doctors’ Orchestral Society.
