Derick I. Cividini

Derick I. Cividini is Of Counsel in the New York office of Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP and serves as the Firm’s Director of E-Discovery.  Derick focuses on prosecuting complex securities fraud cases on behalf of institutional investors, including class actions, corporate governance matters, and derivative litigation.  As the Director of E-discovery, he is responsible for managing the Firm’s discovery efforts, particularly with regard to the implementation of e-discovery best practices for ESI (electronically stored information) and other relevant sources.

Derick was part of the team that represented lead plaintiff City of Edinburgh Council as Administering Authority of the Lothian Pension Fund in In re Lehman Brothers Equity/Debt Securities Litigation, which resulted in settlements totaling $516 million against Lehman Brothers’ former officers and directors as well as most of the banks that underwrote Lehman Brothers’ offerings.

Prior to joining Labaton Keller Sucharow, Derick was a litigation attorney at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he practiced complex civil litigation.  Earlier in his litigation career, he worked on product liability class actions with Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP.

Derick earned his Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration from Rutgers University and received his bachelor’s degree in Finance from Boston College.