Our guest today is Lawrence A. Steckman, Esq.. In this podcast, Mr. Steckman offers advice to young attorneys and scholars on how to publish, as well as interview techniques. Topics also include an introduction to various practice areas, including securities and derivatives private and class suits, Rule 10b-5 litigation, federal and state complex commercial litigation, prosecuting and defending civil RICO private and class suits, and corporate litigation. Tune in for a fascinating discussion with a unique and interesting attorney. Mr. Steckman graduated from Touro Law Center in 1988 and has been a prolific contributor to the Touro Law Review.
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Our guest this episode is Lawrence A. Steckman, Esq.
Lawrence Steckman is currently a principal attorney of the Offit Kurman law firm and has been litigating securities and business cases since 1988. In July, 2006, Super Lawyers Magazine, in its inaugural New York edition, identified Mr. Steckman as one of New York’s first “Super Lawyers” in both securities and business litigation. He received that honor again in 2013, 2014, 2015. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. The independent attorney rating service, AVVO, awarded him its highest achievement level, “superb,” based on a 10/10 score, placing Mr. Steckman in the top fraction of the top 1% of rated attorneys. Mr. Steckman has handled billions of dollars in client matters, including individual matters exceeding one billion dollars, and been counsel in leading securities, derivatives and RICO litigations and arbitrations. He has authored or been the principal and/or first author of more than fifty peer-reviewed published works on the law.
Mr. Steckman’s practice areas include securities and derivatives private and class suits, including Rule 10b-5 litigation, federal and state complex commercial litigation, prosecuting and defending civil RICO private and class suits, merger and acquisition, corporate and contract litigation, bond, arbitrage and real estate fraud and regulatory litigation, international, securities and broker customer arbitration, securities regulatory matters and professional liability defense litigation on behalf of accountants and attorneys.
Mr. Steckman has represented mutual, hedge and private equity funds, insurance companies, accounting firms and auditors, real estate companies, technology companies, a rating company, domestic and foreign companies, a mining company, banks, investment banks and bankers, securities brokers, law firms, lawyers, and foreign and domestic entrepreneurs and investors. He has represented political figures ranging from a former member of the Egyptian Parliament and Germany’s former Industrial Ambassador to the Middle East and Africa, to Panama’s former Governor General and a high-profile Ukrainian Oligarch.
Mr. Steckman has published on federal procedure, evidence, constitutional law, attorney client privilege, securities fraud pleading, loss causation and causal modeling, the reliance element in securities fraud litigation, insider trading, risk arbitrage, fiduciary duty, class certification and preparation of expert reports, remedies and damage computation, mitigation and litigating damage offset defenses in securities and commercial cases, class suit attorney fees, corporate governance, and statute of limitation defenses. He has published on securities arbitration damages, including punitive damages, and the litigation of eligibility defenses, He has published on civil RICO litigation, including on RICO predicate acts, RICO enterprise theory, RICO standing and the RICO direct injury requirement, RICO claims accrual and statute of limitations, RICO loss causation, RICO extraterritoriality analysis and the PSLRA RICO Amendment.
Mr. Steckman’s published work on public policy matters has been cited in areas ranging from international terrorism to government contract and constitutional law. He has published on philosophy of science and the philosophy of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and the American pragmatists. In 2017, he co-authored a volume on existential psychology, published by Nova Science Publishers. He pursued doctoral studies in philosophy at Columbia University, where he was awarded a master’s degree, after receiving his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in music (classic guitar). He began his legal career in New York at Shea & Gould.
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