Ed has also defended clients in class actions concerning advertising and marketing practices and data privacy issues. He primarily serves clients in the financial services, hotel and hospitality, technology, digital advertising, professional services, consumer products, food, retail sales, art, media, and entertainment industries.
Ed has broad experience litigating in federal and state courts in New York and throughout the United States. He has handled numerous arbitrations and mediations, including a recent arbitration award granting his client real estate rights worth more than $100 million. Ed has also served as an expert on New York and U.S. law issues in proceedings abroad. He has acted as both mediator and arbitrator, and brings that experience to bear in his advocacy for clients.
After graduating from law school, Ed clerked for the Honorable Joseph M. McLaughlin in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then spent seven years as a litigation associate in the New York office of a large international law firm, followed by several years as a partner in a commercial and employment litigation boutique. Ed has also taught first-year legal writing and advocacy courses at Fordham University School of Law.