Brian Lehman

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:

• "Justice Scalia’s Concurrence to Merck: Is Adopting the Ordinary Reader’s Perspective a Solution to Judicial Activism?," Securities Litigation Report, June 2010;
  
• "The Impact of Iqbal on Securities Class Action," Securities Litigation Report (with Christian Siebott), Mar. 2010;
  
• "Arbitrators Less Prone to Grant Dispositive Motions than Courts," New York Law Journal (with Michael D. Young), June 26, 2009;
  
• "Asserting the Fifth Amendment in Civil Securities Litigation," Securities Law360, Oct. 24, 2006;
  
• "One Day in September," New York Law Journal (with Judge Shira A. Scheindlin), Sept. 25, 2006;
  
• "Lower Courts Ignore Supreme Court’s Test for Materiality," Securities Law360, Aug. 25, 2006;
  
• "Federal Preemption Of State Payment Requirements In Securities Class Actions," Securities Law360 (with Rachel Kopp), July 18, 2006;
  
• "The Incentive To Commit Securities Fraud Under Automatic Trading Plans," Securities Law360, July 07, 2006;
  
• "Misinterpretation of fraud statute led WorldCom case dismissal," cnn.com, Sept. 5, 2003;
  
• "Can You Sue Someone In Fifty Words Or Less?  Why Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Ignore The Supreme Court’s Instructions To Keep Complaints Brief," Findlaw, June 17, 2003;
  
• "Abusing the Material Witness Statute:  Why Detaining Grand Jury Witnesses Violates The Fourth Amendment," Findlaw, May 06, 2003;
  
• "Does Discrimination Against Gay Men and Lesbians Count As Sex Discrimination?  The Supreme Court May Soon Give An Answer," Findlaw (with Joanna Grossman), Mar. 25, 2003;
  
• "The Equal Protection Problem in Sexual Harassment Doctrine," 10 Colum. J. Gender & L. 125 (2000); and
  
• "Why Title VII Should Prohibit All Workplace Sexual Harassment," 12 Yale J. L. & Feminism 225 (2000).

Mr. Lehman is admitted to the Bar of the State of Connecticut.