Areas of Practice

• Business and Commercial Law
• Business Organization and Incorporation
• Commercial Litigation
• Estate Planning, Wills and Trusts
• International Commercial Arbitration
• International Law
• International Trade Disputes
• Litigation and Appeals
• Probate and Estate Administration
• Real Estate Transactions and Disputes
• Will and Estate Contests and Trust Disputes

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 (E.D.N.Y. Jan. 17, 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