From 1980 to 1983, Kenneth T. Wasserman practiced law at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle, working on the Amoco Cadiz oil spill litigation, what was then the largest oil spill in the world.

Mr. Wasserman then worked at several small litigation boutiques, in practice of commercial and international law.

In 1996, with over a decade of experience, Kenneth T. Wasserman started his own boutique litigation firm.

Areas of Practice

• Business & Commercial Law
• Business Organizations
• Estate Planning
• International Law
• Litigation & Appeals
• Probate & Estate Administration
• Trusts
• Wills

Bar Admissions

• New York, 1971
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York

Education

• New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1972
  LL.M.
  
  
• New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1970
  J.D.
  
  
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, 1967
  A.B.
  Honors: Magna Cum Laude
  
  

Published Works

• Book Review, "Electing Justice: Fixing the Supreme Court Nomination Process", by Richard Davis, New York Law Journal, July 29, 2005
• Book Review, "Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal", by Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis, New York Law Journal, April 1, 2005
• What Lawyers Must Do to the Truth, New York Times, Letter to the Editor, August 26, 1983
• The West German Legal System: Centerpiece is 1900 Civil Code, New York Law Journal, February 22, 1982
• The U.S.S.R. Legal System, New York Law Journal, October 26, 1981
• The French Legal System Basis Still Napoleonic Code, New York Law Journal, August 13, 1982
• Case Study of an Intriguing 'Primitive' Murder Trial: Financial Settlement Between the Murderer and the Victim's Family, Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law, 1981

Representative Cases

• LeSane v. Hall's Sec. Analyst, Inc., 239 F.3d 206 (2d Cir. 2001)
• GMAC Commercial Credit, LLC v. Dillard Dept. Stores, 198 F.R.D. 402 (S.D.N.Y. 2001)
• City of N.Y. v. NY Cross Harbor R.R. Terminal Corp., 2006 WL 140555, Jan. 17 (E.D.N.Y. 2006)
• La Luna Enterprises, Inc. v. CBS Corp., 74 F.Supp.2d 384 (S.D.N.Y. 1999)
• Knox v. HSBC Bank, USA, 16 A.D.3d 199, 791 N.Y.S.2d 101 (1st Dept. 2005)
• GMAC Commercial Credit LLC v. J.C. Penney Co., Inc., 720 N.Y.S.2d 747 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co. 2001)
• Chow v. Boonyam, 660 N.Y.S.2d 729 (2d Dept. 1997)

Professional Associations and Memberships

• New York City Bar Association, 2006 - Present
  Council on International Affairs
  
  
• New York City Bar Association, 2003 - 2006
  Committee on Asian Affairs
  
  
• New York City Bar Association, 2000 - 2003
  Member, Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics
  
  
• New York City Bar Association, 1997 - 2000
  Chairman, Entertainment Committee
  
  
• New York State Bar Association
  New York State Bar Foundation Fellow
  
  
• American Bar Association
  Trusts and Estates Division
  
  
• American Bar Association
  Section on International Law
  
  
• American Foreign Law Association
  Vice President
  
  
• Citizen's Union, Local Candidates Committee, 1999 - Present
  
  
• Council on Foreign Relations
  U.S.-Asia Update Roundtable, 2008 - present
  
  
• Council on Foreign Relations
  Winston Lord Roundtable on Asia and the Rule of Law, 2003 - present
  
  
• SOMACOM TV Community Cable Television
  Interviewer and Commentator
  
  

Ancillary Businesses

• Arbitrator, Commercial Disputes

Languages

• French

Birth Information

• 1945