Chet B. Waldman

About Chet B. Waldman

Chet B. Waldman is a graduate of Cornell University (A.B. 1982) and Boston University School of Law (J.D, 1985) where he was both a G. Joseph Tauro Scholar and a Paul J. Liacos Scholar and was a member of the American Journal of Law and Medicine. He was admitted to the bar in 1986 for the State of New York, the United States District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York in 1988, and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in 2013. Chet frequently lectures on securities litigation matters and the fiduciary duties of pension system trustees throughout the U.S, Latin America, and Canada. He has spoken at National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (“NCPERS”), Council of Institutional Investors, Mid-Atlantic Pension Systems, National Association of Police Organizations, and the Illinois Public Pension Fund Association (“IPPFA”), among others. In March 2019, he co-authored the Chapter on \"Managing Class Actions\" in the American Bar Association\'s newly issued Guide for In-House Counsel: Practical Resource to Cutting-Edge Issues.Chet has been a member of the Securities Litigation Committee and the Mergers & Acquisition Committee of the New York City Bar Association. He is currently serving as a member of that bar association\'s Inter-American Affairs Committee. On June 30, 2017, the individual members of the Inter-American Bar Association (“IABA”), an association made up of more than 30 countries from North America, Central America, South America, England, Spain, and France, elected Mr. Waldman to represent them as one of the thirty-member IABA Council.Attorney Advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Experience

1. Partner

   Wolf Popper Llp

   Jan 1988 — Present

   Represents clients in federal securities class actions, state and federal merger and acquisition litigation, and health care and consumer fraud cases. • Member of Wolf Popper\'s Executive Committee since January 2015• 2017, Recovered $3 million disgorgement for public stockholders stemming from the merger of PHC, Inc. and Acadia Healthcare, Inc. after two week jury trial in federal court in Boston

Education

• Boston University School of Law

  J.D.

  1982 — 1985

• Cornell University

  A.B.

  1978 — 1982

Skills

• Securities Litigation
• Appeals
• Civil Litigation
• Legal Writing
• Litigation
• Commercial Litigation
• Class Actions