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MF Global Lawyers Want To Get Paid

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Mark Melin
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The lawyers who recovered over $200 million for MF Global investors through their class action lawsuit are now seeking their cut.  Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Bleichmar Fonti Tountas & Auld LLP are asking the court to compensate them to the collective tune of $42.1 million resulting from their extracting $204.4 million in settlements reached with MF Global senior executives and other defendants.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.