Fred Newman, a founding partner of the firm, is a legal generalist with decades of experience in commercial litigation, business advice, corporate transactions, employment counseling and alternative dispute resolution.

As a litigator, Mr. Newman handles an array of commercial litigation and employment matters. He has won numerous jury trials, bench trials, dispositive motions, and appeals in the federal and New York state courts and arbitrations before various tribunals. Many of these cases are listed under the Our Record tab. Mr. Newman has also been responsible for the management, settlement or private resolution of many hundreds of matters in his practice. Mr. Newman has been named as a “Leading Lawyer” for general commercial litigation in New York, one of only 76 individuals so honored in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2009).

As a counselor, Mr. Newman advises corporate owners, executives and entrepreneurs on business and personal issues. In addition, he has served on the board of directors of a private reinsurance company; he was appointed the C.E.O of a public company in dissolution by its major creditor; and he was the general counsel and secretary of a public reporting subsidiary of a Fortune 50 company. 

Before opening the private practice that evolved into Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, Mr. Newman was a litigation associate at White & Case, New York City (1970-1980), and he was Assistant General Counsel and ultimately Vice President and General Counsel of Philip Morris USA, also in New York City (1981-1990).

Mr. Newman is a Member and panel chair of the First Departmental Disciplinary Committee appointed by order of the Appellate Division. In 2009, Mr. Newman was a Visiting Professor of Arbitration at a law faculty in Latvia. He is a Member of the Congress of Fellows of the Center for International Legal Studies.  

Mr. Newman is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. Mr. Newman’s numerous other civic and non-profit positions have included: Court-appointed Mediator in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; Director, Columbia Law School Association; Trustee, The Calhoun School, New York City; Founding Director and Vice President, American Corporate Counsel Association, New York Chapter; Director and Secretary, New York Fire Safety Foundation; and Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation. Mr. Newman was Treasurer of the Clean Water/Clean Air Bond Act Committee, a successful statewide ballot initiative to fund major environmental projects in New York. Mr. Newman served as one of three members appointed by Governor George E. Pataki to the New York State Ad Hoc Committee on the Future of Racing, a bipartisan panel established to conduct the bidding process for the franchise to operate New York’s three major thoroughbred racetracks.

Mr. Newman is a member of the bar of the State of New York, the United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. He has appeared in the federal district courts in Illinois, Maine, Nevada and Virginia as well as the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Mr. Newman graduated from Harvard College, cum laude, in 1967, and Columbia Law School in 1970. He completed The Executive Program at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business in 1984 (mini-MBA). Mr. Newman has spoken and been published on a variety of legal topics, most recently as the author of a section of Moskin on Commercial Contracts. Mr. Newman is listed in several volumes of Who’s Who.