KATRINA CARROLL is a member of the firm and heads LDG’s Chicago office. She has been actively involved in many of the firm's class actions, most prominently in the areas of securities, ERISA and antitrust. Her successes have included In re Motorola Securities Litigation (N.D. Ill.), where Lite DePalma Greenberg as Co-Lead Counsel, achieved a $193 million settlement just three business days before trial was to begin, and in In re Tenet Healthcare Corp. Securities Litigation, (C.D. Cal.), where LDG, again as Co-Lead Counsel, won settlements for $216.5 million against one set of defendants and $65 million against the auditor defendant, representing one of the largest auditor settlements of all time. Recently, Ms. Carroll obtained the appointment of Lite DePalma Greenberg's clients as Lead Plaintiffs in In re Atlas Mining Securities Litigation, (D. Idaho), a national securities class action where the firm currently serves as Lead Counsel. In 2010, Ms. Carroll was instrumental in obtaining a lucrative settlement with the majority of defendants in the matter, representing an approximate 30% recovery to Atlas’s shareholders.

Prior to re-joining Lite DePalma Greenberg in 2007, Ms. Carroll worked in the class action group of Much Shelist Freed Deneberg Ament & Rubenstein, P.C., formerly recognized as the premier firm for class litigation in Chicago. While at Much Shelist, Ms. Carroll concentrated her work on securities fraud class actions and derivative actions, and played a litigation role on the majority of that firm’s securities cases, including those in which the firm served as lead counsel. Such matters included In re Hollinger International, Inc. Securities Litigation (N.D. Ill); Ong v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., (N.D. Ill.), and In re Sara Lee Corp. Securities Litigation (N.D. Ill.).

Ms. Carroll has significant experience in all phases of other complex litigation and has worked on or managed a number of matters involving products and securities in industries as diverse as automobiles, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, software and technology.  She is particularly adept at the use of cutting-edge legal technology and is well versed on e-discovery issues arising in litigation today.

Outside of litigation, Ms. Carroll has also represented individuals, privately owned businesses and Fortune 500 clients before local, state and federal governments and enforcement agencies in a number of areas, helping clients secure temporary restraining orders and injunctions, structure entities, develop and document corporate resolutions, comply with securities-reporting requirements, and negotiate licensing agreements.

Selected Reported Opinions:

In re Atlas Mining Company Securities Litigation, 2008 WL 821756 (D. Idaho March 25, 2008).

In re Hollinger Intern., Inc. Securities Litigation, 2006 WL 1806382 (N.D. Ill. June 28, 2006).

In re NUI Securities Litigation, 314 F.Supp.2d 388 (D.N.J. 2004).

In re Tenet Healthcare Corp. Securities Litigation, 2007 WL 5673884 (C.D. Cal. Dec. 5, 2007).

NCP Litigation Trust v. KPMG LLP, 187 N.J. 353 (N.J. 2006).

New Jersey v. Sprint Corp.,
2010 WL 610671  (D. Kan. Feb. 19, 2010).
531 F.Supp.2d 1273 (D. Kan. 2008).

In re Par Pharmaceutical Securities Litigation, 2009 WL 3234273 (D.N.J. Sept. 30, 2009).

In re Suprema Specialties, Inc. Securities Litigation, 438 F.3d 256 (3d Cir. 2006).

In re Tellium, Inc. Securities Litigation, 2005 WL 1677467 (D.N.J.  June 30, 2005).

Yang v. Odom, 2005 WL 2000156 (D.N.J. Aug. 19, 2005).