Judson Lobdell has extensive experience in the fields of securities litigation and criminal law, including securities class actions, shareholder derivative actions, SEC enforcement actions, criminal jury trials, DOJ and SEC investigations, and internal investigations.
From 1995 through 1999, Mr. Lobdell was a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., where he tried more than 30 cases to juries and argued cases in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and the D.C. Court of Appeals.
Mr. Lobdell is one of the primary authors of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s InfoPAK on managing class action merger litigation.
Mr. Lobdell is recommended by Legal 500 US 2013 for M&A Litigation.
Mr. Lobdell served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ralph B. Guy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, from August 1989 to August 1990.
Mr. Lobdell received his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1989. He received his B.A., with distinction, from Stanford University in 1985.
Representative Matters
Mr. Lobdell’s representative matters include defending the following entities and individuals:
The Cooper Companies, Inc., and its directors and officers in securities class actions and shareholder derivative actions in the Northern District of California, which were dismissed with prejudice in June 2013;
SunPower Corporation and its directors and officers in a securities class action pending in the Northern District of California and shareholder derivative actions pending in Delaware and California;
DaVita Inc. and certain current officers and current/former directors in shareholder derivative actions in the District of Colorado;
The outside directors of Countrywide Financial Corporation in various securities class actions and shareholder derivative actions;
Yahoo! Inc. in various matters, including a federal securities class action dismissed in 2009, Brodsky v. Yahoo! Inc., et al., 630 F. Supp. 2d 1104 (N.D. Cal. 2009); and a derivative action dismissed in the Delaware Court of Chancery, Jacobs v. Yang, No. 206-N, 2004 Del.Ch. LEXIS 117 (Del. Ch. Aug. 2, 2004) and affirmed by the Supreme Court of Delaware, Jacobs v. Yang, 867 A.2d 902; 2005 Del. LEXIS 38 (Del., Jan. 21, 2005);
Patricia Dunn, former Chair of Hewlett-Packard, in the successful defense of criminal and related civil litigation;
The Clorox Company and its directors and officers in various class actions and shareholder derivative actions;
Mentor Corporation and its directors in shareholder class actions arising from $1.1-billion acquisition by Johnson & Johnson where summary judgment was granted in favor of defendants;
Longs Drugstores, Inc., in litigation arising out of its acquisition by CVS Pharmacy, Inc.;
Boulder Investment Advisers in a shareholder derivative action in the District of Colorado;
Abraxis BioScience, Inc. in shareholder actions arising out of a merger, dismissed in 2007;
The outside directors of Amazon.com, Inc. in a securities class action in the Western District of Washington;
Barnes & Noble, Inc. in a nationwide antitrust and unfair competition lawsuit; and
Two mutual fund investment advisers in SEC investigations that were terminated with no enforcement action.