Hill & Robbins has represented both class and derivative actions in cases involving state and federal securities fraud claims.

The firm has served as:

• Class counsel for the shareholder class in the MiniScribe Securities class action Feivel Gottlieb, et al. v. Q.T. Wiles, et al., Civil Action No. 89-M-963 (D.Colo.). The nationwide shareholder class of 30,000 plaintiffs alleged violations of Section 10(b)(5) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 by a major accounting firm, investment banking firm, and others. The firm engineered a settlement totaling $128 million including the largest payment ever made at that time by an accounting firm from a single audit client.
  
  
• Class counsel for 5 investors in Tri-State Bank of East Dubuque v. Dain Bosworth Incorporated, Civil Action No. CV-81-0-109 (D. Neb.). As a result of that action, the class recovered $7 million, or approximately 120% of their original investments.
  
  
• Liaison counsel for a nationwide class of some 3,000 investors in a series of limited partnerships in the Alert Income Partners Securities Litigation, Civil Action No. 92-Z-9150 (D.Colo.), asserting securities law and RICO claims against a major accounting firm, attorneys, controlling entities, and promoters of limited partnerships. A settlement valued at $64 million was approved and distributed to the class.
  
  
• Class co-counsel for a class of defrauded investors in the Hedged Option Trading Program, The Kidder Peabody Cases, 93-CV-1569, District Court, City and County of Denver. Almost $50 million was recovered on behalf of a class of over 800 investors.
  
  
• Lead Counsel for a class of defrauded shareholders in the class action, In re Ribozyme Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Securities Litigation, Case No. 99-MK-2235, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado. A settlement valued at $3 million was approved for distribution to the class. The case covered new ground in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, and resulted in four published opinions: 209 F. Supp. 2d 1106 (D. Colo. 2002); 205 F.R.D. 572 (D. Colo. 2001); 119 F. Supp. 2d 1156 (D. Colo. 2000); 192 F.R.D. 656 (D. Colo. 2000). - Read Complaint - Read Final Claim -
  
  
• Liaison Counsel for a class of defrauded investors in the class and derivative action, City Partnership Co., et al v. Jones Intercable, Inc. and Cable Fund 14-B, Case No. 99-WM-1501, U.S. District Court, District of Colorado. A settlement valued at $10 million was approved for distribution to the investors. - Read Complaint - Recommendation for Magistrate Judge -
  
  
• Co-lead counsel for a class of defrauded limited partners in the class and derivative action, City Partnership v. American Cable TV Investors V, Ltd., et al, Civil Action No. 99-F-2122 (D. Colo.). A settlement valued at $5 million was approved for distribution to the limited partners.