New York Metro Super Lawyers Articles
David Paget survived Lower East Side gangs to become New York’s go-to environmental lawyer
Husband-and-wife team Randolph McLaughlin and Debra Cohen are building a new kind of civil rights practice
Sports lawyer Irwin Kishner’s highlight reel includes developing the country’s first regional sports network
Victoria Cook’s viral Facebook post helped expose gender bias in documentary filmmaking
Discovery with Victoria S. Cook
Victoria “Cookie” Cook on why she’d make an effin’ bad morning-show host
Local Counsel with RoseAnn C. Branda
Brooklyn’s RoseAnn Branda tells us what’s good in the neighborhood
An oral history of those who fought “We don’t hire women” law firms and handsy judges to make legal history
Oral History: 13 Ways of Looking at a Black Robe
Former clerks to the U.S. Supreme Court talk about their experiences at the center of American law
After a troubled childhood in the Bronx, Ross J. Charap emerged to fight for truth, justice and intellectual property
Richard Lobel follows in the footsteps of his father, Sheldon, who followed in the footsteps of his father-in-law
How CEO training and a sense of humor helped Monica Richman build a fashion IP practice
How did a bastard orphan go on and on to become a musical phenomenon? Loren Plotkin and Nancy Rose on the legal work behind Hamilton
Priya Chaudhry brings a touch of Cleveland (LeBron/Browns) to the city
Local Counsel with Jonathan L. Mechanic
Real estate icon Jonathan Mechanic tells us what’s good in the neighborhood
The Dean of the Employment Bar
Betsy Plevan’s career has been based on finding the right fit: for her, for her clients and for a generation of female lawyers
“You cannot be great at what we do if you don’t have compassion for people,” says personal injury attorney Robert Kelner
Before same-sex marriage was the law of the land, business litigator Robbie Kaplan became a hero of the movement
The Chinese legal system has come a long way in a short time; but what’s getting lost in translation?
Stabilizing Rent-Stabilization
Ira L. Herman on the Santiago-Monteverde bankruptcy ruling
On Dan Brown’s pro bono work to make New York more wheelchair accessible
Mediating with John DiBlasi
Barry Scheck talks Louima, Lyons, and whether the state has executed an innocent man
How M&A ace Sabine Chalmers helped form the world’s largest brewing company
The Defining Civil Rights Issue of This Century
David Boies, Ted Olson, and the federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage
How Kathleen M. Sullivan went from academia to the only female name partner among the 100 largest firms in the country
How Marshall Huebner helped rescue the economy
Family lawyer Sue M. Moss talks comedy, the begging strategy and losing your mind on Oprah
A look at the not-so-secret identity of Napoli Bern
A Damon Runyon Kind of Practice
Judd Burstein is mum on Fox News, but not on the mob or Don King
Nooshin Namazi’s journey from Iran to Long Island
How Martin Lipton changed corporate law
Privacy expert Lisa Sotto goes public
Susan Millington Campbell and the dirt aspect of environmental law
Michael J. Amoruso is known as a listener even though he was born with bilateral hearing loss; he’s known for seeing solutions even though he’s legally blind
An oral history of the short life and quick death of Dewey & LeBoeuf
Med mal attorney Duane M. Fiedler strives to even the playing field—in the courts and on the court
Before taking up entertainment law, Marilyn G. Haft worked for the ACLU, Bella Abzug, the White House and the U.N.
Susan Brune represents a new generation of trial lawyers
Mary Kay Vyskocil reps insurance companies in cases ranging from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal to the collapse of the World Trade Center
At the intersection of law, history and literature, you’ll find Daniel Kornstein
Why personal injury attorney Marvin Salenger identifies with his clients
J. Christopher Jensen talks Muppets, the Internet, and freeing a man on death row
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Courtroom
Labe Richman’s monologue benefits the Immigrant Defense Project
Columbia student Andrea Johnson led a Care-A-Van to Native American tribal lands
The Four Lanes of Alphonso E. Tindall Jr.
As a child he walked the precincts for the first African-American running for mayor of New Haven; now he represents cities and states in a public sector-related practice
NBCUniversal’s Rick Cotton works to combat Internet piracy and protect content
Joshua Stein, one of the first lawyers with a laptop, hangs a shingle midcareer
The Don of Criminal Defense Attorneys
Gerald Shargel defends collars of every color … as well as the mob
Protector of The Catcher in the Rye
Marcia Paul doesn’t relish being center of attention, but her clients, including J.D. Salinger, Mel Brooks and Dustin Hoffman, often put her there
Thomas Kavaler, Peter Wang and other lawyers pay homage to their mentor
The Largest Pro Bono Effort in History
New York lawyers show TLC after 9/11
Andrew “Duke” Maloney’s five-year battle for Glenn Winuk
Bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman on tough cases, humorous deal toys, and how to handle power brokers like Carl Icahn and Donald Trump
Catching up with Gerald L. Shargel
Since appearing in the 2011 Super Lawyers Magazine article, Shargel has moved from small law to big
Starwood Hotels & Resorts’ Ken Siegel helps craft a corporate culture that is globally minded and socially aware
Julie Jacobs navigates the new media frontier at AOL
How Gary Naftalis beat Perry Mason, defended Michael Eisner, and sank a shot at Madison Square Garden
Brad Karp is the man behind the man in the hot seat
The four commandments of Debra Raskin
How Vince DeOrchis helped update 80-year-old maritime law
Backstage with Broadway lawyers Seth Gelblum, Elliot Brown, Jean Ward, Loren Plotkin and Nancy Rose
Real estate lawyer David Alan Richards transfers everything from Kipling books to air
A little night music from IP attorney Jonathan Z. King
It has something to do with liquidity
Mark H. Jackson’s Second Client Is the First Amendment
His first is Dow Jones
Sandra Leung stepped in when Bristol-Myers Squibb took the heat
Amy Schulman forwent a career in academia for high-stakes corporate litigation
Greg Joseph is the corporate litigator you want answering that 3 a.m. (or 4 a.m.) phone call
A Minor Deity in the Bankruptcy Arena
From the Salad Oil Scandal of ‘63 to Lehman Brothers today, Harvey Miller is the bankruptcy lawyer you don’t cross
Sheila Birnbaum was often the first woman in the room, but it’s in products liability that she blazed a trail
How Laurie Carter keeps the performing arts performing
‘Who Did You Rep During the Global Financial Meltdown, Daddy?’
How an all-star line-up of lawyers helped ensure that Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were bought, and someone, somewhere, cared about Bernie Madoff
Lawrence Rutkowski on negotiating with men holding AK-47s
How Leon Wildes helped John Lennon stay in the city he loved
Murray Schwartz of Schwartz & Perry has been practicing for 60 years. He currently focuses exclusively on all facets of employment law, including employment discrimination.
Noah Hanft leads the charge at MasterCard
Nice to Meet You, Mikhail Baryshnikov
Laurie Carter still gets star-struck on the Juilliard campus
Deryck Palmer on updating the nation's bankruptcy laws
Larry Thompson stands behind an iconic American brand
Modernizing a 16th-Century Tradition
Sharon Grubin keeps The Met apace with the times
Rupert Murdoch’s Right-Hand Man
Lon Jacobs helped News Corporation take over The Wall Street Journal and MySpace
David Boies looks back at a brilliant career... and a Supreme Court decision that changed a nation
Bankruptcy lawyer Deryck Palmer is nice 98 percent of the time
Thomas Moore and Judith Livingston share three children and multimillion-dollar verdicts
An unhurried view of Roger Zissu
The Second Life of Harriet Cohen
What the matrimonial lawyer learned to share with the world
Three civil rights lawyers—Michael Ratner, Arthur Eisenberg and Manuel Vargas—and their organizations fight for our most basic rights
L. Londell McMillan learned business and advocacy from the best: his mother
The First First Amendment Lawyer
Floyd Abrams on the Pentagon Papers, Judith Miller and why clerkships are great (it’s not why you think)
Government Problems? Call Ted Wells
Lewis Libby, in big trouble, knew where to turn
One Woman's Ceiling is Another Woman's Floor
If you still think women can’t have it all, check out Valerie Ford Jacob
Hold the Line, Mia, Pacino is on Line Two
Bill Beslow’s celebrity divorce clients appreciate his closed-mouth policy
And on the Seventh Day, He Rested
No, he’s not God, but his clients rank Ben Brafman just a few rungs below that
The Ninth Member of the Chicago Eight
Gerald Lefcourt counts Abbie Hoffman, Sid Vicious and hotelier Harry Helmsley among the clients he’s had in his legendary career
Redford is NOT a Cigarette (and other entertainment law stories)
Martin Garbus tells stories as good as those told by the entertainers he protects
The Keepers of New York's Treasures
They may be invisible — they like it that way — but the lawyers who protect the Guggenheim, The Metropolitan Opera and The New York Public Library system watch over the city’s cultural icons
How Louise Parent moved up the AmEx corporate ladder