Leslie Fagen | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  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]
Fagen was born in Brooklyn, New York [2] . He earned his B.A. from Yale College in 1971 and went on to receive a J.D. from Columbia School of Law in 1974. [3] [4] He clerked for Judge Jack B. Weinstein in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. [5] [6]
Fagen was formerly a senior partner in the Litigation Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. [7] [8] He had served as chair of the firm's Litigation Department. [9] [10] As a trial lawyer, he had litigated on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. [11] His work at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP was profiled in a 2006 cover story in The American Lawyer that highlighted the firm’s litigation practice. [12]
In addition to his law practice, Fagen has taught as an adjunct lecturer at Columbia Law School and has served as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School. [13] [14]
Fagen has been involved with numerous nonprofit organizations. He serves on the boards of the Brennan Center for Justice [15] and the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors [16] , and he is a trustee of the Kohlberg Foundation [17] . Fagen is also a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. [18]
Fagen has written on topics such as intellectual property, product liability, and arbitration. He produced a biographical piece on Judge Simon H. Rifkind for The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law [19] and edited the collection At 90. On the 90's. [20]