Bar admissions & court admissions:

• Bar of the State of New York
• Bar of the State of Connecticut
• U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First, Second, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits

Donald Hall first associated with Kaplan Fox in 1998 and became a partner of the firm in 2005.  Mr. Hall has more than 25 years of experience in securities and complex litigation.  He also prosecutes consumer protection and antitrust litigation.  Mr. Hall is actively involved in counseling the firm’s institutional clients on seeking redress in foreign jurisdictions or bringing an individual action in the U.S. to adequately protect and recover lost assets involving foreign securities.  Mr. Hall was a member of the trial team prosecuting In re Bank of America, which settled for $2.425 billion, the single largest securities class action recovery for violations of Section 14(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”) and one of the top securities litigation settlements obtained in history.  Mr. Hall also represented public pension fund clients in In re Eletrobras Secs. Litig., No. 15-cv-5754 (S.D.N.Y.), as co-lead counsel representing the Employee Retirement System of City of Providence in a class action against a Brazilian company, and in Kasper v. AAC Holdings, Inc., No. 15-cv-923 (M.D. Tenn.), as co-lead counsel representing ATRS.  Mr. Hall successfully represented institutional investor clients in In re Merrill Lynch, which settled for $475 million; In re Fannie Mae 2008, which settled for $170 million; In re Ambac Financial Group, Inc. Securities Litigation, No. 08-cv-411 (S.D.N.Y.) (“In re Ambac”); and In re Majesco Securities Litigation, No. 05-cv-3557 (D.N.J.), among others.  Additionally, he was a member of the litigation team in AOL Time Warner Cases I & II, an opt-out action brought by institutional investors that settled just weeks before trial, resulting in a recovery of multiples of what would have been obtained had those investors remained members of the class action.

Currently, Mr. Hall is representing institutional clients in the following cases: In re Vale as court appointed lead counsel for the court-appointed lead plaintiff, CAAT Pension Plan, arising out of the January 2019 collapse of a tailings dam and Vale’s false and misleading statements about the safety of its dams and commitment to the health and safety of its workers; CalSTRS and the Firemen’s Retirement System of St. Louis in a derivative action in Delaware arising out of Facebook’s many years of improper data sharing with third parties, Karen Sbriglio, Retirement System of St. Louis and California State Teachers’ Retirement System, derivatively on behalf of Nominal Defendant Facebook, Inc. vs. Mark Zuckerberg, et al., Case Number: 2018-0307-JRS (Del. Ch.); and State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio v. Charles River Labs. Int’l Inc., Case No. 23-cv-11132 (D. Mass.), a securities class action, as court appointed lead counsel for the court-appointed lead plaintiff, STRS Ohio.  Mr. Hall recently represented ATRS in Arkansas Teacher Retirement Sys. v. Allianz Global Investors US LLC, No. 20-cv-5615 (S.D.N.Y.), an individual action, alleging negligence and breach of contractual and fiduciary duties arising from misconduct and gross mismanagement of three investment funds.

Mr. Hall graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1995 with a B.A. in Philosophy and obtained his law degree from Fordham University School of Law in 1998. During law school, Mr. Hall was a member of the Fordham Urban Law Journal and a member of the Fordham Moot Court Board. He also participated in the Criminal Defense Clinic, representing criminal defendants in federal and New York State courts on a pro-bono basis.

Mr. Hall is admitted to practice in the States of New York and Connecticut and before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First, Second and Eleventh Circuits. He serves on the Executive Committee of the National Association of Securities and Commercial Law Attorneys and is a member of the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America and American Association for Justice.