Law Firm Seeks Publicity for Societe Generale Class-Action Suit.

American lawyers seeking to bring a class-action lawsuit against the French bank Societe Generale over its billions of euros in unexpected losses came to France on Wednesday looking for publicity, and plaintiffs. Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, which specializes in class-action suits, hopes that a Federal District Court in Manhattan will decide to allow French shareholders of Societe Generale to sue alongside their American counterparts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]