Pamela A. Markert

Ms. Markert's practice focuses on securities class action and complex multidistrict antitrust class action litigation. For more than five years prior to joining the firm, Ms. Markert gained significant litigation experience in business, consumer and general liability matters representing clients ranging from individuals, partnerships and closely-held corporations to multinational companies.

Cases in which Ms. Markert has played a key role include:

• Sonus Networks, Inc. Securities Litigation (D.Mass.) – Recovered $40 million for shareholders in securities fraud action arising from false statements and omissions allegedly contained company’s publicly issued financial statements.
• BearingPoint, Inc., Securities Litigation (E.D.Va.) – Recovered $7.5 million for shareholders in a securities fraud action arising from false statements and omissions allegedly contained company’s publicly issued financial statements and after the subsequent bankruptcy and liquidation of the company.

Among other matters, Ms. Markert is currently working on Gianzero v. Wal-Mart Stores, et al.; In re Municipal Derivatives Antitrust Litigation; In re Processed Egg Products Antitrust Litigation; and In re Plasma-Derivative Protein Therapies Antitrust Litigation.

Prior to her career in law, Ms. Markert worked at SunGard Financial Systems, Inc. providing technical direction to clients for a comprehensive investment accounting and portfolio management system for client portfolios totaling more than $27 billion. While at SunGard, Ms. Markert spent a year in Washington D.C. providing on-site client support for the capital markets division of the Resolution Trust Corporation.

Ms. Markert received a B.S. in Business Administration, Finance (cum laude) from California State University, Northridge, and a J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law. She was an Articles Editor of the Santa Clara Law Review and her comment was published. Ms. Markert was honored as an Emery Academic Scholarship recipient at Santa Clara.

Ms. Markert is admitted to practice in the State of California, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, United States District Court for the District of Colorado, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ms. Markert is a member of Queen's Bench Bar Association of the San Francisco Bay Area since 2000. She served as a Director from September 2008 through 2009, and chaired the Bylaws Committee from 2008 through 2011.