Brithem LLP

Brithem LLP is a New York-based trial boutique doing the kind of impact work most firms a hundred times its size can’t touch. Founded by nationally recognized trial lawyers Michael Bowe and Lauren Tabaksblat, the firm is built around a singular focus: deploying elite courtroom advocacy to secure exceptional results in every type of litigation with velocity and efficiency.

Brithem is built to handle the cases that matter most — complex disputes where the outcome can define a company, protect a portfolio, or change the law. The firm’s lawyers try cases across real estate, financial fraud, civil RICO, and civil rights, with a record that includes landmark verdicts, precedent-setting rulings, and victories in some of the most closely watched litigation of the past two decades.

Among the matters the firm’s attorneys have handled:

• In a landmark case against the world’s largest online pornography company, its hedge fund financiers, and Visa, the firm represents over 200 victims whose sexual exploitation appeared in videos uploaded to Pornhub and other websites owned by MindGeek (now Aylo), exposing the industry’s widespread monetization of child porn and rape videos, drawing significant public attention to this largely unknown abuse, and forcing major reforms that established both a model for other victims to pursue and critical legal precedent to help end this horrific abuse.
• The firm waged a decade-long fight to save Canadian insurer Fairfax Financial from a short-selling attack designed to bankrupt the company and secure billions in short-selling gains. Deploying an organic investigative group to conduct a year-long investigation, the team used the evidence uncovered to launch an unprecedented RICO and commercial disparagement suit against the funds and their co-conspirators. The suit not only stopped the attacks but, according to market participants and the SEC’s former top economist, quickly discredited the lies and restored billions in market cap within months.
• The firm represents Blueprint Capital Advisors, a Black-owned asset manager, in a landmark civil rights and RICO case exposing bias and corruption in the “old boys’ network” controlling the highest levels of state government and global finance. The suit accuses the New Jersey Division of Investment, BlackRock, Owl Rock, Governor Phil Murphy, and senior officials in his administration of diverting promised advisory contracts and investments away from Blueprint and toward overwhelmingly white competitors. The complaint alleges government insiders shared Blueprint’s confidential strategies with BlackRock, allowing the financial giant to launch a near-identical product, while state officials rewarded participants in the scheme with hundreds of millions in pension assets.