Wallace A. Showman has litigated dozens of successful class actions and derivative cases involving securities, corporate transactions, and consumer protection over the past twenty years, including In re Gulf Oil/ Cities/Cities Service Tender Offer Litigation, (S.D.N.Y.); In re Marion Merrell Dow Inc. Securities Litigation, Sommerfield v. Tracinda (D. Nev.), In re U.S. Banknote Corp. Securities Litigation, (S.D.N.Y.); In re Amdahl Corp. Shareholders Litigation, (Del. Ch.); In re Northeast Utilities Securities Litigation, In re ICN /Viratek Securities Litigation, (S.D.N.Y.); In re PaineWebber Securities Litigation, (S.D.N.Y.); ITT v. Hilton Hotels Corp. et al., CV-S-97-0095-PMP(RLH) (D. Nev.); In re Warner Lambert Derivative Litigation (Del. Ch.), In re Cendant Securities Litigation (D. N.J.), and In re Telxon Corp. Securities Litigation (D. Ohio).
Mr. Showman has also litigated in the field of civil and human rights and spoke at Fordham University School of Law in the spring of 2004 on the subject of international human rights and environmental issues.
Mr. Showman's federal practice is nationwide, and he is a member of the federal bars in New York and Colorado, as well as the appellate bar in the Second Circuit (New York) and Fifth Circuit (Texas). He is also admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court.