Attorneys

s. Gocyk-Farber is involved in all areas of the firm's litigation practice, with particular emphasis on securities fraud actions, complex commercial litigation, and trial practice.  Additionally, she is in charge of the firm's European business development.

Ms. Gocyk-Farber was a senior member of the litigation and trial teams that prosecuted In re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation, resulting in a recovery for investors of over $6.15 billion -- the second largest securities fraud recovery in the history of the financial markets.  She was also one of the senior lawyers leading the prosecution of In re Williams Securities Litigation, which resulted in $311 million in recoveries for the plaintiffs shortly before trial.  This was one of the largest recoveries in a securities class action in which the corporate defendant did not restate its financial results.  She is currently a senior member of the team prosecuting In re HealthSouth Securities Litigation and In re Converium Securities Litigation.  Ms. Gocyk-Farber also has extensive experience in prosecuting executive compensation cases and is one of the senior lawyers prosecuting the federal derivative action against the individuals involved in the options backdating scandal at UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

Prior to joining BLB&G in 2001, Ms. Gocyk-Farber was an associate with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York, where she represented large financial institutions and sovereign governments in securities and merger and acquisitions transactions.  While at Cardozo School of Law, Ms. Gocyk-Farber authored and published "Patenting Medical Procedures: In Search of a Compromise Between Ethics and Economics."

Member of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association.