According to this article in the Star-Ledger, Vermont high school teacher Chaim Lodish, proud owner of 100 shares of Able Laboratories, recently became a player in the securities litigation arena when he got a telephone call from a suburban Philadelphia law firm.  Lodish told the Star-Ledger he has no idea how the firm got his name, but he "ended up" as the plaintiff in a securities class action filed yesterday in federal court in Newark (complaint available here).  The article states that Lodish

was caught up in a standard "dialing for dollars" campaign of a small group of lawyers around the country who specialize in potentially lucrative pharmaceutical stockholder and product liability lawsuits.

"That's a good question," Lodish said last night. "I don't know how they found out I own stock."

Lawyers comb proxy mailing and other public sources in a fierce competition to sign the biggest group of stockholders. The goal is to become designated the lead law firm, assuring them huge legal fees and a piece of any monetary award.