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Stephen J. Fearon, Jr. is a partner of Squitieri & Fearon, LLP. His primary practice involves pursuing class actions on behalf of investors and retirement plans in courts across the country. He has received an “AV” rating by Martindale Hubbell, indicating the highest level of professional excellence. He has also been voted by his peers as one of the top lawyers in New York for handling mass torts and is included in the 2011 and 2012 editions of The Best Lawyers in America.
Since he began practicing law, Mr. Fearon has recovered tens of millions of dollars for the people he has represented in many class actions and individual lawsuits.
Mr. Fearon has represented hundreds of injured people and their families in pharmaceutical and medical device lawsuits. Mr. Fearon and his firm also have successfully recovered millions of dollars for employees who lost their retirement savings by investing in their employer’s stock through employer-sponsored retirement plans. Many of the cases involved situations in which the employer continued to offer company stock as a retirement investment when there was a serious, undisclosed problem with the company that made it imprudent to invest retirement assets in company stock. Mr. Fearon currently is lead counsel for investors in many large, nationwide class actions.
Practice Areas
- ERISA/Retirement Benefits Class Actions
- Securities/Stock Fraud Actions
- Dangerous and Defective Products Litigation
- Merger and Takeover Cases
Education
- J.D., New York Law School, 1990
- Editor, Journal of Human Rights
- B.A., Boston University, 1986
Bar Admissions
- New York, 1991
Court Admissions
- New York State Supreme Court, First Department
- United States District Court, Southern District of New York
- United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
- United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
- United States District Court, Western District of Michigan
- United States District Court, District of Arizona
- United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia
- United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Membership Associations
- Federal Bar Council