Joshua D. Rievman, a partner of the firm, specializes in the litigation and arbitration of commercial disputes. He has successfully represented clients in jury and non-jury trials in New York State and federal courts, in state and federal appellate proceedings and in arbitration. Mr. Rievman also counsels employers and employees with respect to employment-related issues and represents clients in licensing transactions.

Mr. Rievman represents clients on a broad range of issues, including litigations, arbitrations and actions for injunctive relief arising out of a wide variety of domestic and international commercial transactions, unfair competition, breach of contract, products liability, trademark, securities, partnerships, banking transactions, professional sports contracts, high technology and bankruptcy. From 1999 to 2000, Mr. Rievman was a partner of Coudert Brothers, and was an associate there from 1990 to 1998. At Coudert Brothers, Mr. Rievman represented European, Asian and U.S. clients in the litigation and arbitration of commercial disputes.

Mr. Rievman is a member of the Advisory Board of the Network of Leading Law Firms and of the Congress of Fellows of the Center for International Legal Studies. Mr. Rievman regularly speaks on issues related to the litigation and arbitration of international and domestic commercial disputes. His recent speeches have included “Discovery in the United States In Aid of Foreign Litigation Pursuant To 28 U.S.C. § 1782” and “How the Creep of United States Litigation-Style Discovery and Appellate Rights Affects the Efficiency and Cost-Efficacy of Arbitration.”

Mr. Rievman is an active mediator in the New York Supreme Court Commercial Division ADR Program. Mr. Rievman is admitted to practice before the courts of the State of New York and Connecticut, the U.S. District Courts in and for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Mr. Rievman graduated from Duke University, cum laude, in 1986 and from Boston College Law School, cum laude, in 1990 where he was the Executive Editor of the Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, in which he published, “Judicial Scrutiny of Native American Free Exercise Rights: Lyng and the Decline of the Yoder Doctrine”, 17 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 169 (1989).