Stephen A. Marshall

Stephen A. Marshall is a Senior Counsel who practises in commercial litigation, with concentration in securities, antitrust, product liability and insurance coverage litigation, and in National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD)/Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitrations. His primary practice area is Commercial Litigation.

He represents corporations and their officers and directors in securities fraud litigation and in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigations, as well as broker/dealer firms in defence of customer and employee claims asserted against them.

He also defends companies involved in asbestos litigation and has served as national coordinating counsel for a company that has been a major defendant in such litigation.

His litigation experience includes successfully defending numerous clients, including the major US producers of potash against price-fixing allegations; obtaining a jury verdict following a seven-month trial on behalf of the chairman of the board of a company charged with securities fraud violations arising out of the conduct of an alleged Ponzi scheme; successfully representing an Israeli corporation in an SEC investigation and in stockholder class action litigations which ensued; winning a landmark case in the New York State Court of Appeals in an insurance coverage action involving the applicability of the pollution exclusion clause; and successfully defending the National Hockey League in a breach of contract action brought against it by Sports Channel.

He served for many years as national coordinating counsel for a company that had tens of thousands of asbestos bodily injury claims pending against it nationwide, with 40 other law firms serving as local defence counsel throughout the United States reporting to him.

He serves as a mediator for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and for the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court, and is also a mediator and arbitrator for the International Institute of Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR).

He is on CPR's Panel of Distinguished Neutrals as both an arbitrator and mediator, is a member of the Mediation Panel of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and is a member of the Panel of Neutrals of the New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division, New York County. He has served as an officer and trustee of the Federal Bar Council (FBC) and the Federal Bar Foundation (FBF) and currently serves as a member of the Audit Committee of the FBC and FBF.

He has also chaired the FBC's Winter Bench and Bar Conference (2006) and the FBC's Supreme Court Admission's Trip (2005). He is a member of the ADR Committee of the New York State Bar Association and its Mediation subcommittee, the ADR Committee of the New York City Bar Association and its Diversity subcommittee, and is a member of the Lotos Club, serving on its Governance and Admissions committees. He serves as a Director of his residential cooperative apartment building.

He served as Law Clerk to the Hon. Irving Ben Cooper, US District Judge for the Southern District of New York. He holds a JD, cum laude, Order of the Coif, from New York University School of Law (1967).