The National Law Journal has published its list of the 100 most influential lawyers in America.  Viewing it through the SLW lens, we can weed out the riff-raff (just kidding David Boies, Brendan Sullivan, and the rest of you luminaries) that constitutes 92% of that list, and get right to the lawyers that matter in our narrowly-focused world.  By my count, at least 8 of the lawyers on this list are from the securities litigation arena:

Going alphabetically they are:

1. 

Steve W. Berman 51, Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, Seattle

2.

Richard C. Breeden 56, Richard C. Breeden & Co., Greenwich, Conn.

3.

John C. Coffee Jr. 61, Columbia Law School, New York

4.

Joseph A. Grundfest 54, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, Calif.

5.

William Lerach 60, Lerach Coughlin Stoia GellerRudman & Robbins, San Diego

6.

Gary Naftalis 56, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, New York

7.

Jerold S. Solovy 76, Jenner & Block, Chicago

8.

Bruce G. Vanyo 60, Katten Muchin Rosenman, Los Angeles