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Brian Lehman received his bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Michigan in 1996, and graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 2000. While at the University of Chicago, Mr. Lehman was co-founder and articles editor for Chicago Journal of International Law as well as a member of the University of Chicago Legal Forum. Following law school, Mr. Lehman clerked in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Mr. Lehman has significant experience in multi-district litigation and securities fraud class actions. In addition, among other things, from 2007 to 2008, Mr. Lehman assisted Judge Shira A. Scheindlin under Rule 53 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in In re MTBE Products Liability Litigation, No. 00-1898 (S.D.N.Y.), a mass tort case in the United District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Mr. Lehman assists in representing the Republic of Iraq and the Iraqi people in an action against corporations and individuals that bribed the regime of Saddam Hussein during the Oil-for-Food Programme, which has been described as the largest financial and political fraud in history.
In addition to working on individual matters, Mr. Lehman is a member of the Firm’s Supreme Court and Appellate Practice Group which handles all of the Firm’s appeals and prepares amicus curiae briefs on a pro bono basis in important cases affecting the Firm’s clients.
Mr. Lehman has written extensively and been published on a number of issues, including:
Mr. Lehman is admitted to the Bar of the State of Connecticut.
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