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Litigation and trial boutique Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP represents clients in bet-the-company disputes. The team is a go to for clients across various sectors, from media, investment and manufacturing to shipping, education and real estate. Marc Kasowitz leads the New York-based team, representing a stellar clientele of entertainment, production, insurance and logistics companies. Sheron Korpus regularly represents international clients in their US disputes, while Paul O’Connor heads up the firm’s real estate litigation group. Paul Burgo is regularly called upon by private equity and hedge funds and is another key member of the team, alongside Kenneth David.
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Key clients
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- Care One
Work highlights
- Representing numerous Jewish and Israeli students at New York University, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, in federal courts in the Southern District of New York, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the District of Massachusetts, respectively, concerning allegations that the universities tolerate and enable hostile antisemitic educational environments, including pervasive acts of discrimination, harassment and intimidation in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- Acting as co-lead counsel representing Kloosterboer International Forwarding LLC and Alaskan Reefer Management LLC in challenging governments’ issuance of approximately $400m in fines and threatened additional fines of more than $1.5bn for violation of the Jones Act, a federal statute that effectively provides an exemption to the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act by prohibiting foreign vessels from competing with U.S. vessels in U.S. coastwise trade.