Leslie Fagen

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Leslie Fagen
NationalityFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Education Yale College (BA)
Columbia Law School (JD)
Occupation Attorney
Employer Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (former)

Leslie Gordon Fagen is an American litigator. He was formerly a senior partner at the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. [1] He is now a member of boards, a senior advisor and a consultant for private and not for profit companies.

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Biography

Fagen was born in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his B.A. from Yale College in 1971, where he was a sabre fencer and captain of the varsity fencing team. [2] He went on to receive a J.D. from Columbia School of Law in 1974. He clerked for Judge Jack B. Weinstein in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Career

Fagen was formerly a senior partner in the Litigation Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. As a trial lawyer, he had litigated on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants for more than 42 years.

His work was profiled in an American Lawyer cover story, “The Lifesavers,” in which Paul Weiss was selected as the best litigation firm in the United States. [3] He has served as chair of the firm's Litigation Department.

He is an adjunct lecturer in law at Columbia Law School [4] and an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School. [5]

Fagen is a trustee of the Kohlberg Foundation, [6] a member of the Board of The Brennan Center or Justice [7] and a member of the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors. [8] Fagen is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

He is the author of numerous publications on intellectual property, product liability and arbitration. Fagen is also the author of a monograph on the life of Paul, Weiss's late patriarch Judge Simon H. Rifkind, published in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law [9] and the editor of At 90. On the 90's [10] .[9]

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References

  1. "Paul, Weiss". www.paulweiss.com. Retrieved 2023-04-18.
  2. Fullerton, Greg (February 11, 2021). "Yale Daily News". "New Fencing Coach Begins Innovations Early".
  3. Frankel, Alison (January 2006). "Litigation Department of the Year: The Lifesavers". The American Lawyer.
  4. "Leslie Gordon Fagen. Columbia Law School".
  5. "Brooklyn Law School".
  6. "The Kohlberg Foundation".
  7. "The Brennan Center for Justice".
  8. "Columbia Law School".
  9. Newman, Roger K., ed. (2009). "The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law". Yale University Press. New Haven, CT. p. 459.
  10. "At 90. On the 90's". The Journal of Simon H. Rifkind (Educational Alliance). 1992.