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1 MILBERG LLP JEFF S. WESTERMAN (SBN 94559) 2 E-mail:[email protected] One California Plaza 3 300 South Grand Ave., Suite 3900 Los Angeles, CA 90071 4 Telephone: (213) 617-1200 Facsimile: (213) 617-1975 5 6 LAW OFFICES OF GEORGE A. SHOHET, A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 7 GEORGE A. SHOHET (SBN 112697) E-mail:[email protected] 8 245 Main Street, Suite 310 Venice, California 90291 9 Telephone: (310) 452-3176 Facsimile: (310) 452-2270 10 Proposed Co-Lead Counsel 11 12 13 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Civil Action No. C 08-02599 JSW AMENDED NOTICE OF MOTION OF HANOCH BEN-TAL, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE BENTAL FAMILY TRUST AND ARIC A. STREIT AND MARY STREIT AS TRUSTEES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE STREIT LIVING TRUST, FOR CONSOLIDATION, APPOINTMENT AS CO-LEAD PLAINTIFFS AND APPROVAL OF CO-LEAD PLAINTIFFS' SELECTION OF COLEAD COUNSEL; CHANGE OF HEARING DATE DATE: TIME: CTRM: JUDGE: October 17, 2008 9:00 a.m. 2, 17th Floor Hon. Jeffrey S. White
14 RICHARD S. BONDAR, as Trustee of the ) Bondar Family Trust Dated 4/1/91, Individually ) 15 And On Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, ) ) 16 Plaintiff, ) ) 17 v. ) ) 18 BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION, BANC ) OF AMERICA INVESTMENT SERVICES, ) 19 INC., and BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES, ) LLC, ) 20 ) Defendants. ) 21 ) ) 22 ) ) 23 ) ) 24 25 26 27
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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Memorandum of Law, Declaration of Jeff S.
2 Westerman, and a [Proposed] Order in support of this Motion was submitted on July 21, 2008. 3 Hanoch Ben-Tal, as Trustee for the Ben-Tal Family Trust, and Aric A. Streit and Mary Streit, as 4 Trustees for the Benefit of The Streit Living Trust ("Movants"), by their counsel, hereby move 5 this Court on October 17, 2008, at 450 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, California 94102, for 6 an order: (i) consolidating the above-captioned action with any other related actions for all 7 purposes pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 42(a); (ii) appointing Hanoch Ben-Tal, as Trustee for the 8 Ben-Tal Family Trust, and Aric A. Streit and Mary Streit as Trustees for the Benefit of The Streit 9 Living Trust as Co-Lead Plaintiffs in the above-captioned action and any related actions alleging 10 violations of the securities laws; (iii) approving Movants' selection of the law firms of Milberg 11 LLP ("Milberg") and Law Offices of George A. Shohet, A Professional Corporation ("Shohet") 12 to serve as Co-Lead Counsel in the Securities Actions; and (iv) granting such other and further 13 relief as the Court may deem just and proper. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 AMENDED NOTICE OF MOTION FOR CONSOLIDATION, APPOINTMENT AS CO-LEAD
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Dated: July 22, 2008
MILBERG LLP JEFF S. WESTERMAN
By:________/s/ Jeff S. Westerman JEFF S. WESTERMAN One California Plaza 300 South Grand Avenue, Suite 3900 Los Angeles, California 90071 Telephone: (213) 617-1200 Facsimile: (213) 617-1975 E-mail: [email protected] LAW OFFICES OF GEORGE A. SHOHET, A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION GEORGE A. SHOHET 245 Main Street, Suite 310 Venice, California 90291 Telephone: (310) 452-3176 Facsimile: (310) 452-2270 E-mail: [email protected]
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Counsel for Hanoch Ben-Tal as Trustee of the BenTal Family Trust and Aric A. Streit and Mary Streit as Trustees for the benefit of the Streit Living Trust and Proposed Co-Lead Counsel for the Class
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Bank of America Corporation Service List
Jeff S. Westerman 5 MILBERG LLP 300 South Grand Ave., Suite 3900 6 Los Angeles, CA 90071 7 Telephone: (213) 617-1200 Facsimile: (213) 617-1975 8 Email: [email protected] 9 Daniel C. Girard Jonathan K. Levine 10 GIRARD GIBBS LLP th 11 601 California Street, 14 Floor San Francisco, CA 94108 12 Telephone: (415) 981-4800 Facsimile: (415) 981-4846 13 Email: [email protected] [email protected] 14 15 Christopher S. Seeger Steven A. Weiss 16 David R. Buchanan SEEGER WEISS LLP 17 One William Street New York, NY 10004 18 Telephone: (212) 584-0700 19 Facsimile: (212) 584-0799 Email: [email protected] 20 [email protected] [email protected] 21 Shawn Khorrami 22 KHORRAMI POLLARD & ABIR LLP rd 23 444 S. Flower Street, 33 Floor Los Angeles, CA 90071 24 Telephone: (213) 596-6000 Facsimile: (213) 596-6010 25 Email: [email protected] 26 27
George A. Shohet LAW OFFICES OF GEORGE A. SHOHET, A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION 245 Main Street, Suite 310 Venice, CA 90291 Telephone: (310) 452-3176 Email: [email protected] Norman E. Siegel STUEVE SIEGEL HANSON LLP 460 Nichols Road, Suite 200 Kansas City, MO 64112 Telephone: (816) 714-7100 Facsimile: (816) 714) 7101 Email: [email protected]
Eileen L. McGeever RUSHALL & MCGEEVER 6100 Innovation Way Carlsbad, CA 92009 Telephone: (760) 438-6855 Facsimile: (760) 438-3026 Email: [email protected]
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1 Defendants Counsel: 2 Debra S. Belaga 3 Aaron M. Rofkahr O'MELVENY & MYERS LLP 4 Embarcadero Center West 275 Battery Street, Ste. 2600 5 San Francisco, CA 94111-3305 Telephone: (415) 984-8700 6 Facsimile: (415) 984-8701 7 Email: [email protected] [email protected] 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 AMENDED NOTICE OF MOTION FOR CONSOLIDATION, APPOINTMENT AS CO-LEAD
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