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Leslie Fagen | |
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Nationality | ![]() |
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, [2] a senior advisor [3] and a consultant for private and not for profit companies. [4]
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. [5] He went on to receive a J.D. from Columbia School of Law in 1974. [6] He clerked for Judge Jack B. Weinstein in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. [7]
Fagen was formerly a senior partner in the Litigation Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. [8] As a trial lawyer, he had litigated on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants for more than forty two years. [9]
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. [10] He has served as chair of the firm's Litigation Department. [11]
He is an adjunct lecturer in law at Columbia Law School [12] and an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School. [13]
Fagen is a trustee of the Kohlberg Foundation, [14] a member of the Board of The Brennan Center for Justice [15] and a member of the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors. [16] Fagen is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. [17]
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 [18] and the editor of At 90. On the 90's [19] .[9]