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Marjorie E. Gross, Esq. Law Office of Marjorie E. Gross Marjorie Gross represents financial institutions on a wide range of matters arising under banking and financial services laws. She is a member (and currently Chair) of the New York State Bar Association s Committee on Professional Ethics, and writes and lectures on legal ethics. Ms. Gross has worked as in-house counsel to a number of banks, including as Interim General Counsel of TD Bank N.A. during 2012, and as a Managing Director of JP Morgan Chase Bank from 1989 through 2004. She served as General Counsel of the New York State Banking Department from 2007 through September 2011. Much of her work focuses on the regulation of banks, including the requirements of the Dodd Frank Act, and regulation of domestic and foreign banking organizations. She also focuses on the regulation of banking products, including foreign exchange, derivatives, mortgages and credit cards. She has acted as an expert witness in connection with foreign exchange master agreements. She has served as a member of the Financial Markets Lawyers Group (sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York) and represented the New York State Banking Department on the OTC Derivatives Regulators Forum. More information about her practice and professional activities are described elsewhere on this site. Ms. Gross is a member of the New York bar.
Gerard E. Harper, Esq. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Chair, NYSBA Committee on Professional Ethics Gerry is now Of Counsel to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, having retired in 2016 after thirty years as a partner in the firm s Litigation Department. While in active practice, Gerry concentrated in general commercial litigation and counseling, with an emphasis on business litigation, fiduciary and corporate relationships, and the law of lawyering. He has litigated and tried matters and argued appeals in federal and state courts in multiple jurisdictions and tried both domestic and international arbitrations. For over twenty years, Gerry served as the firm s first chief in-house counsel, responsible for all ethics and risk management issues. He co-chaired the firm s Professional Liability Practice, and represented some of the Nation s best known firms in legal malpractice actions. Gerry was an Adjunct Professor of Law on Legal Ethics at N.Y.U. Law School. He is a longtime member, and currently Chair, of the New York State Committee on Professional Ethics. He chaired the New York County Committee on Professional Ethics for four years. He has also served twice on the City Bar s Committee on Professional Ethics as well as on its Committee on Professional Discipline. By appointment of the First Department Appellate Division, he served two terms as a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee, He has appeared on panels on Legal Ethics for the ABA, NYSBA, ABCNY, NYCLA, PLUS, PLI, AON, the N.Y.U. Stern School of Business, the Association of Investment Counsel, and other trade associations. He is a founding member of
the Ethics Roundtable, an informal body of representatives of peer New York City firms who serve as in-house ethics advisors. In addition to his work in the area of legal ethics, Gerry has extensive experience litigating major commercial disputes, including securities class actions, derivative suits, bondholder actions, and tender offer claims, both in New York and Delaware; claims in telecommunications, environmental management, biotechnology, M&A transactions, joint venture interests, fashion franchises, and petrochemicals; controversies involving theatrical productions, cable, network and syndicated television programming, barter advertising, corporate sponsorships, and home video and mail order distributions; disputes involving protection of music and other content-related matters in the music and film industries, including representation, at one time or another, of each of the major music distribution companies, the major film distribution companies, leading music publishers and film producers; antitrust and trade regulation matters include defeating a Robinson-Patman Act claim at trial, a government challenge to copyright licensing practices, various copyright and trademark infringement claims, and termination of the famous Paramount consent decrees governing theatrical exhibition of films. For four years, he represented the Empire State Building in a series of suits brought by Donald Trump, which resulted in landmark rulings without a loss. He has litigated disputes involving other major New York real estate properties, from the Stanhope Hotel to 1 East 57th Street. For over twenty years, Gerry was the General Counsel of the New York State Democratic Party, and served as a member of the Rules Committee of the Democratic National Committee in 2000, 2004, and 2008. He acted as a presiding officer at State Conventions that designated Governors Mario Cuomo, Eliot Spitzer, and Andrew Cuomo, as well as U.S. Senators Moynihan, Schumer, Clinton, and Gillibrand. He was a Presidential Elector in 1988. Gerry was elected to the firm s Management Committee four times, and served on that body from 1997 through 2012.
Sarah Diane McShea, Esq. Law Offices of Sarah Diane McShea Sarah Diane McShea is a sole practitioner in New York City who has practiced in the professional responsibility field for 36 years. She advises lawyers, law firms, in-house counsel, and government lawyers, among others, on a wide variety of professional responsibility issues; serves as an expert witness on professional ethics issues; consults on law firm mergers, dissolutions, fee disputes, and sanctions and disqualification motions; and represents lawyers in disciplinary proceedings in the state and federal courts and bar applicants in character and fitness proceedings. McShea is a member of the Editorial Board of the ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct. She is a member of the NYSBA Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct, the NYSBA Committee on Professional Ethics and the Professional Discipline Committee. She is also a member of the NYSBA Committee on Law Practice Management and chaired its Law Practice Continuity Subcommittee which recently updated the NYSBA Planning Ahead Guide. McShea is a contributing editor to The New York Rules of Professional Conduct (Oxford University Press) and a founding member and Past President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. She served on the NOBC/APRL Joint Committee on Aging Lawyers, which issued national reports on the graying of the legal profession in May 2007 and April 2014; and regularly writes and speaks on ethics issues. She has taught professional responsibility as an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law, Columbia University School of Law, Brooklyn Law School, and St. John s University School of Law. She is a former Deputy Chief Counsel to the Departmental Disciplinary Committee in the First Department and former Bureau Chief (Public Corruption) in the Kings County District Attorney s Office. She graduated from Yale College and Boston University School of Law.
Joseph E. Neuhaus, Esq. Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Joe Neuhaus joined Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in 1987 and became a partner in 1992. His practice is focused on international commercial litigation in both arbitral and court settings, with particular emphasis on Latin American matters. He is coordinator of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP s arbitration practice and has served as counsel and arbitrator in numerous arbitral proceedings, including ad hoc proceedings, arbitrations administered by the International Chamber of Commerce and the American Arbitration Association and arbitrations involving sovereign entities. He also has served as counsel in a variety of arbitration-related disputes in court, as well as other commercial litigation and regulatory investigations.