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Phone: (212) 750-8700 ex. 4217
Fax: (212) 223-8391
sfriedman@friedmanwittenstein.com
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STUART I. FRIEDMAN
PARTNER
Mr. Friedman is an experienced trial lawyer and a co-founder of the firm. In his many years of practice, Mr. Friedman has represented clients in virtually every type of complex, commercial litigation at both the trial and appellate levels, including federal, state, administrative, and international trials, arbitrations and hearings. In addition to his principal litigation activities, Mr. Friedman also maintains an active counseling practice. Mr. Friedman's areas of substantive expertise are antitrust, finance, securities, intellectual property and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Mr. Friedman's varied litigation experience includes a multi-week, complex patent-antitrust jury trial; a patent infringement and damages bench trial that extended over a year and a half and resulted in a favorable award of over $200 million; international hearings before the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague; an UNCITRAL (international) trial involving a complex software and development transaction between corporations in Europe and the United States; numerous state administrative trials involving the agriculture and dairy industries; a federal administrative trial before the Merit Systems Protection Board against the Federal Aviation Administration; a federal bench trial involving the sale and transport of Nigerian crude oil; various preliminary injunction hearings, including patent infringement, antitrust, contested broadcast rights, and other contractual disputes; and appellate arguments involving Constitutional, patent, antitrust, administrative and procedural issues.
Mr. Friedman has appeared and/or tried cases in state and federal courts in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, California, Michigan, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., and has argued appeals before the United States Courts of Appeal for the First, Second and Federal Circuits, the New York Court of Appeals, and the intermediate appellate courts of New York and New Jersey.
The clients Mr. Friedman has represented include well-known corporations and entities such as multinational manufacturing companies, nationally-registered stock and commodities exchanges, major private equity firms, a multinational oil and energy company, a national sports league and charitable organizations. Among Mr. Friedman's many cases, he has represented clients in disputes involving patent licensing systems and intellectual property rights in the textile and yarn industry; the firing of air traffic controllers by the FAA under the Reagan Administration; the broadcast rights of the Tour de France bicycle race; the size and types of permissible sailing vessels in the America's Cup Race; the electric system utilized in movable walls of office furniture; the software and computer platforms of electronic trading on registered United States stock exchanges; the nationalization of businesses in Iran following the Iranian revolution; the application of the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution to corporate pleas of nolo contendere alleged price fixing in the bread and dairy industries; damage to an oil tanker by fire on the high seas; the intellectual property rights to the listing and trading of exchange traded funds on securities exchanges; and international licensing and patent rights in the semi-conductor computer chip industry.
In the area of Sports Law, Mr. Friedman represented a professional sports league in the United States and Canada, executives, coaches, players and broadcasters of various professional sports teams and leagues, including the representation of a leading figure in the FIFA investigations.
On the counseling and transactional side, Mr. Friedman has represented clients in international joint ventures, licensing and compliance projects involving European, South American and Asian jurisdictions and laws. Mr. Friedman has also developed and conducted compliance and corporate "best practices" programs, including on-line instructional and inter-active presentations, in the areas of antitrust, unfair trade practices, intellectual property and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Mr. Friedman has lectured and provided accredited CLE courses in the areas of antitrust, intellectual property, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and has also spoken to business groups in Europe and the United States on the comparative antitrust laws of the United States and various legal systems in Europe, South America and Asia.
Mr. Friedman graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Syracuse University and The George Washington University Law School, where he was elected to the Law Review and was the author of a note entitled "The Capacity of a Foreign Government to Bring an Action for Treble Damages Under the Federal Antitrust Laws."
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Honors
Highest "AV" Martindale-Hubbell peer rating continuously for over 40 years.
New York Super Lawyer
Education
George Washington University, J.D.
Member, George Washington Law Review
Syracuse University, B.A.,magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
New York
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan
U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit