"As the firm that represents more individual and institutional investors in securities litigation than any other firm, the scope of this fraud has impacted many of our clients, including those who invested directly with Madoff, those who invested in Madoff's feeder hedge funds, and those who invested in any of the funds of funds that invested in Madoff," said Samuel H. Rudman, a named partner at the firm. "We intend to aggressively pursue all possible claims against all possible defendants."

Coughlin Stoia has been contacted by many individual and institutional investors who have suffered losses related to Madoff and is assisting them in evaluating their legal claims. The firm is particularly well suited to litigate cases of this magnitude, having achieved history's largest securities class action recovery in the Enron case, as well as history's largest opt-out recoveries in WorldCom and AOLTimeWarner.

About Coughlin Stoia

Coughlin Stoia, a 190-lawyer firm with offices in San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Boca Raton, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Atlanta, is active in major litigations pending in federal and state courts throughout the United States and has taken a leading role in many important actions on behalf of defrauded investors, consumers, and companies, as well as victims of human rights violations. The Coughlin Stoia Web site (http://www.csgrr.com) has more information about the firm.