Introduction On April 30, 2026, President Trump signed an Executive Order (the “Order”) designed to expand access to retirement savings for the tens of millions of American workers who currently lack employer-sponsored retirement plans, including many small-business employees, part-time workers, independent contractors, and self-employed individuals facing barriers to saving for retirement. The Order is designed to complement the Federal Saver's Match enacted under the SECURE 2...
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Overview
Founded in 1919, Patterson Belknap is a law firm of approximately 200 lawyers committed to providing high quality legal advice and service to clients and to maintaining a collegial and welcoming environment. We make our clients' business issues our own. At the same time, we care about our attorneys, our staff and the community we are privileged to serve. As a result of our performance and our values, the firm was included on The American Lawyer's 2015 "A-List" of 20 leading law firms in the United States.
Patterson Belknap delivers a full range of services across more than 20 practice groups in both litigation and commercial law. Our practice groups and attorneys are regularly ranked among the leaders in New York and nationally by the most respected industry guides, based on client and peer reviews. Clients include a diverse group of institutions and individuals: from pharmaceutical and medical device companies to major media and publishing empires; from consumer products companies to financial institutions; from fine art museums to famous entertainers; from foreign companies seeking to transact business on U.S. stock exchanges to U.S. companies doing business abroad.
Year this Office was Established: 1919
Lawyers Worldwide: 189
Notable
Areas of Practice
Professionals
Partners
Anne-Laure Alléhaut
Partner
Christopher C. Angell
Retired Partner
Michael S. Arlein
Partner
H. Gregory Baker
Partner
Andrew P. Beame
Partner
Kathryn Bi
Partner
Jennifer W. Brown
Partner
Henry P. Bubel
Retired Partner
Michael F. Buchanan
Partner
Laura E. Butzel
Partner
Lachlan S. Campbell-Verduyn
Partner
William F. Cavanaugh, Jr.
Partner
J. Jay Cho
Partner
Andrew D. Cohen
Partner
Maurene Comey
Partner
Alejandro H. Cruz
Partner
Craig W. Dent
Partner
Aron Fischer
Partner
Philip R. Forlenza
Retired Partner
Jeffrey S. Ginsberg
Partner
David M. Glaser
Retired Partner
Joshua A. Goldberg
Partner
Antonia M. Grumbach
Retired Partner
Andrew L. Herz
Retired Partner
Dana W. Hiscock
Retired Partner
Joshua Kipnees
Partner
David Kleban
Partner
Jonah M. Knobler
Partner
Rochelle Korman
Retired Partner
Robin Krause
Partner
Thomas P. Kurland
Partner
Jean-Claude Lanza
Partner
Lawrence P. Lenzner
Partner
Robert P. LoBue
Retired Partner
Daniel A. Lowenthal
Partner
Jane Metcalf
Partner
Clinton W. Morrison
Partner
Barbara L. Mullin
Partner
Tara J. Norris
Partner
Hope K. Plasha
Partner
Lewis V. Popovski
Partner
Geoffrey Potter
Partner
Lauren Schorr Potter
Partner
Herman H. Raspé
Partner
Daniel S. Ruzumna
Partner
Harry Sandick
Partner
John Sare
Retired Partner
Peter J. Schaeffer
Partner
John P. Schmitt
Retired Partner
Karl E. Seib
Retired Partner
Saul B. Shapiro
Partner
Rachel B. Sherman
Partner
Julie A. Simeone
Partner
Edward H. Smoot
Partner
Douglas L. Tang
Partner
Richard R. Upton
Retired Partner
Amy N. Vegari
Partner
Susan Vignola
Partner
Jason Vitullo
Partner
Frederick B. Warder III
Partner
Millie Warner
Partner
Timothy A. Waters
Partner
Steven A. Zalesin
Partner
Justin Zaremby
PartnerAssociates
Hibo H. Ali
Associate
Colleen Anderson
Associate
Shelley Attadgie
Associate
Eric Beinhorn
Associate
Ari K. Bental
Associate
Morgan B. Berenbaum
Associate
Kimberly Black
Associate
Sarah E. Brand
Associate
Jacqueline L. Brandon
Associate
Emma Guido Brill
Associate
Melissa Budetti
Associate
Elizabeth Byrnes-Mandelbaum
Associate
Sophia S. Cherif
Associate
Anna Cox
Associate
Vamsi A. Damerla
Associate
Gerald F. DeSantis
Associate
Josie Dikkers
Associate
Catherine J. Djang
Associate
David M. Epstein
Associate
Folasade K. Famakinwa
Associate
Michael Farinacci
Associate
Daniel Feder
Associate
Justice I. Forte
Associate
Peter B. Franklin
Associate
Nicolás (Nico) Q. Galván
Associate
Kathleen Gardner
Associate General Counsel
Shelli Gimelstein
Associate
Daniel Graf
Associate
Christine Harper
Associate
George E. Harris
Associate
Kabir Hashmi
Associate
Collin Hong
Associate
Megha Hoon
Associate
Jillian Horowitz
Associate
Alexander A. Ivanovic
Associate
Mina Juhn
Associate
Ian C. Kerr
Associate
Howard H. Kim
Associate
Andrew Kirschenbaum
Associate
Rachel Klein
Associate
Ryan J. Kurtz
Associate
Alvin Li
Associate
Tiffany Li
Associate
Julia M. MacAllister
Associate
Alexandra Mahler-Haug
Associate
Greg Margolis
Associate
Jabari Matthew
Associate
James Mayer
Associate
Jack McGlone
Associate
Hilarie Meyers
Associate
Madeline More Lane
Associate
Joyce L. Nadipuram
Associate
Natalie G. Noble
Associate
Colleen O'Leary
Associate
Maggie O'Neil
Associate
Bharath Palle
Associate
Faust Petkovich
Associate
Anna Petrocelli
Associate
Alexandria Piacenti
Associate
Kate Ross
Associate
Katlyne Ryan
Associate
Voratida Sangchant
Associate
Zachary Schlesinger
Associate
Nicole Scully
Associate
Benjamin T. Seymour
Associate
Stephanie Sofer
Associate
George S. Soussou
Associate
Charles Tso
Associate
Henry Wainhouse
Associate
Kaiying Wang
Associate
Gillian Wei
Associate
Isaac J. Weingram
Associate
Matthew B. Weiss
Associate
Caitlyn Wigler
Associate
Hadiya Williams
Associate
Anthony J. Wong
Associate
Danhui (Diane) Xu
Associate
Caroline Zielinski
AssociateCounsel
Etta Brandman
Of Counsel
Dakotah M. Burns
Counsel
Jessica S. Carter
Special Counsel
Lisa E. Cleary
Of Counsel
Robert J. Cleary
Of Counsel
Gregory L. Diskant
Of Counsel
David W. Dykhouse
Of Counsel
Emma Ellman-Golan
Counsel
Hugh J. Freund
Of Counsel
Dana B. Fritz
Counsel
Eugene M. Gelernter
Pro Bono Counsel
Stephanie Bunting Glaser
Counsel
Andrew I. Haddad
Counsel
Carolyn B. Handler
Counsel
Peter C. Harvey
Of Counsel
Irene J. Kim
Counsel
Jo Backer Laird
Retired Of Counsel
Zhiqiang Liu
Counsel
Jenny L. Longman
Counsel
Charles G. Moerdler
Of Counsel
Zachary P. Novetsky
Counsel
James R. Parks
Counsel
Jonah Rizzo-Bleichman
Counsel
Robert M. Safron
Of Counsel
Ryan J. Sheehan
Counsel
Tiffany N. Tam
Counsel
Christopher Wilds
CounselOther
Shaun L. Carr
Staff Attorney
Maryann Clemente
Senior Attorney
Michelle W. Cohen
Chief Talent Officer
Jenni Dickson
Co-Chief Operating Officer
Dahlia B. Doumar
Firm Leadership
David Erroll
Practice Area Attorney
Sheetal Gupta
Chief Information Officer
Kito K. Huggins
Chief Inclusion and Engagement Officer
JoAnn Kim
Practice Area Attorney
Camila Méndez Arzeno
Practice Area Attorney
Nicole Sandler
Chief Business Development Officer
Wendy A. Teller
Practice Area Attorney
Peter W. Tomlinson
Firm Leadership
Shelley Waldron
Director of E-Discovery and Client Services
Theresa Wilson
Co-Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial OfficerArticles
Insider Trading Safeguards Can Mitigate Sports Betting Risk
From sports betting to prediction markets, the phenomenon some call "the casino-ification of America" has captured the American zeitgeist. Sports betting in particular has become ubiquitous since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2018 decision in Murphy v. NCAA, which opened the door for states to legalize sports gambling. Fans can now regularly bet on games and player performances directly from their smartphones. And, as several recent criminal indictments have alleged, some bettors are capitalizing on their access to inside information to obtain an unfair advantage on their wagers...
Press releases
Firm Obtains Dismissal of False Claims Act Suit on Behalf of McGraw Hill
On May 15, 2026, Patterson Belknap successfully secured the dismissal of a False Claims Act lawsuit brought by the Florida Attorney General's Office (the "Florida AG Office") against the firm’s client, education solutions provider McGraw Hill, LLC ("McGraw Hill"), in Florida's Second Judicial Circuit Court. The lawsuit was brought in August 2025 following an investigation and subpoena process in which the Florida AG's Office alleged that McGraw Hill violated Florida’s “most favored nation” pricing statute...
Firm Achieves Significant Lanham Act Win for Johnson & Johnson
On April 17, 2026, Patterson Belknap secured a significant victory for our clients, Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Biotech, Inc. (“J&J”), when the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a preliminary injunction in a Lanham Act suit filed by Bayer HealthCare LLC (“Bayer”). The dispute concerned a retrospective scientific study sponsored by J&J that compared the real-world efficacy of both companies’ prostate cancer medications, concluding that J&J’s ERLEADA was associated with a reduction in overall risk of death approximately 50% greater than Bayer’s NUBEQA...
Blogs
Antitrust Update
Antitrust Update Blog is a source of insights, information and analysis on criminal and civil antitrust and competition-related issues. Patterson Belknap’s antitrust lawyers represent clients in antitrust litigation and counseling matters, including those related to pricing, marketing,...
Bankruptcy Update Blog
Patterson Belknap is pleased to announce the launch of Bankruptcy Update Blog, a source of current news and analysis of key bankruptcy cases and developments in U.S. and international matters. ? Daniel A. Lowenthal, Chair of the Firm?s Business Reorganization and Creditors? Rights Practice, leads...
Data Security Law Blog
DataSecurityLaw.com is the firm’s resource for the latest news, analysis, and thought leadership in the critical area of privacy and cybersecurity law. Patterson Belknap’s Privacy and Data Security practice provides public and private enterprises, their leadership teams and boards with...
Misbranded
Misbranded is Patterson Belknap’s blog covering false advertising litigation—both consumer class actions and competitor suits—with a particular focus on FDA-regulated products (foods/beverages, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and dietary supplements).
New York Commercial Division Decisions
The blog is a source for insights and developments related to practice in the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court. This blog reviews key developments in the Commercial Division, including important decisions handed down by the Commercial Division and appellate court...
NY Patent Decisions Blog
NYPatentDecisionsBlog.com is a source for the latest patent decisions from the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. The blog is authored by Patterson Belknap’s Patent Litigation practice group, whose members are highly experienced trial attorneys with extensive...
Second Circuit Criminal Law Blog
The Second Circuit Criminal Law Blog is your place to follow the criminal law decisions rendered by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. With a rich 225-year history of legendary judges like Learned Hand and Henry Friendly, the Second Circuit has long been known for writing important...
