Attorneys

Ian J. McLoughlin

Education

• Gonzaga University, BA, 1997 - cum laude
• Boston University School of Law, JD, 2000 - magna cum laude

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imcloughlin@shulaw.com
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Ian McLoughlin is an associate at Shapiro, Haber & Urmy. He has been named as a Massachusetts Rising Star in the field of business litigation. He focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, including cases involving securities fraud, consumer fraud and other unfair business practices. He represents institutional and individual plaintiffs in a variety of disputes, including shareholder derivative lawsuits and class actions. He has recently worked on several significant litigations involving the backdating or other manipulation of stock option grants at major publicly traded companies.

He has also represented numerous refugees seeking political asylum on a pro bono basis. For example, he assisted a client from the Democratic Republic of Congo, who had been severely persecuted by governmental authorities, to obtain asylum.

From 2000 - 2007, he worked as a litigation associate at the Boston law firm of Foley Hoag LLP, where he represented individuals and businesses in a variety of complex disputes involving, among other things, securities, intellectual property and employee non-competition agreements. During his tenure at Foley Hoag, he also served for several months on a firm-sponsored rotation at the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office, where he was responsible for the full caseload of an Assistant District Attorney and first-chaired fifteen criminal trials.

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