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Jay P. Saltzman
Jay P. Saltzman

Jay P. Saltzman graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts degree where he was on the Dean's List throughout his attendance. From 1985-1990, Mr. Saltzman worked as an officer in the Corporate Trust department of the Bankers Trust Company, responsible for all aspects of Corporate Trust, from integrating new issues to ensuring the accuracy of dividends and stock splits. Mr. Saltzman earned a Masters of Business Administration degree with a major in Corporate Finance from New York University's Stern School of Business in 1991. He received his J.D. degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in June, 1994. Mr. Saltzman was a member of the Cardozo Law Review for which he wrote his Note on International and Labor Law. While at Cardozo, he was an intern with the New York State Attorney General's Office and with the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights. He is admitted to practice in the courts of the States of New York and New Jersey, in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits.

Mr. Saltzman has materially participated in numerous securities and consumer class actions, including In re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation (S.D.N.Y.), which settled in 2005 for over $6.13 billion, the second-largest securities fraud settlement of all time; Danis v. USN Communications, Inc. (N.D. Ill.) ($44.7 million recovery); In re PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. Securities Litigation (W.D. Pa.) ($46.675 million recovery); In re Harmonic Inc. Securities Litigation (N.D. Cal.) ($15 million recovery); In re Datascope Corp. Securities Litigation (D.N.J.) ($10.5 million recovery); In re Tidel Technologies, Inc. (S.D. Tex.) ($4.05 million recovery in cash and stock); and Silberblatt v. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. (S.D.N.Y.) (recovering 100% of consumers’ claimed overcharges for storage of precious metals).