Tony Harwood

I am a Trial Lawyer with over 25 years of experience in Business lawsuits, Arbitration and White-Collar Criminal investigations. I provide high quality advocacy and advice to companies, partnerships, their owners, managers, directors and employees in business disputes. My practice encompasses matters involving Securities, Stockbroker Fraud, Class Action lawsuits, Real Estate, Technology and Intellectual Property, privately held Businesses, Employment law,Professional Liability and Legal eEthics.

I have an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell, which is the highest rating the organization gives, and am a longstanding leader in legal ethics, demonstrating that my peers rank me at the highest level of professional excellence.

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Fordham University School of Law

J.D. (1987) | Law

Fordham Law Review, Dean’s List

Cornell University

B.A. (1983) | History

Managing Member

Harwood Law PLLC

2009 - Current

Counsel

Labaton Sucharow LLP

2005 - 2009

Counsel

Holland & Knight LLP

2001 - 2005

Associate/Counsel

Gilbert Segall & Young

1992 - 2001

Associate

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

1988 - 1992

Judicial Law Clerk

William C. Conner, United States District Court Judge, Southern District of New York

1987 - 1988

Report of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section on Threatening Disciplinary Action Against Attorneys in New York

New York State Bar Association

2015

Report on the Proposed Amendment to Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4 Regulating Lawyers' Supervision of Undercover Investigations

New York State Bar Association

2015

“Controlling Costs and Achieving Fairness Through Alternative Dispute Resolutio

American Bar Association

2003

Provisional Remedies in the United States: the New York Model

Annual Congress of the Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats

1998

International Service of Process

American Bar Association

1995

Protecting Clients' Confidences in Electronic Documents Under New York's Rules of Professional Conduct for Lawyer, CLE Program on Legal Ethics in the Digital Age, New York State Bar Association

2016

The New York Lawyer's Ethical Duties When Using the Cloud, CLE on Data Security for Small and Mid-Sized Law Firms, New York City Bar Association

2015

Ethics of Outsourcing Legal Work, New York State Bar Association

2015

Ethical Issues in the Investigation of a Civil Lawsuit, Part I, Annual Meeting of the New York State Bar Association

2009

Ethical Issues in the Investigation of a Lawsuit, Part II, Spring Meeting of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, New York State Bar Association

2009

AV Preeminent Peer Rating

Martindale-Hubbell

2023

Super Lawyer

Super Lawyers

2023

2016-2023

New York State Bar Association

Member

Current

Activities: Securities Law Committee, 2003-Present; Executive Committee, 2004-Present; Commercial, and Federal Litigation Section, Co-Chair, Ethics and Professionalism Committee, 2004-2021

American Bar Association

Member

Current

Activities: Executive Committee, Young Lawyers Division, 1995-1997; Chair, International Law Committee, Young Lawyers Division, 1995-97; Vice-Chair, Membership Committee, Section of International Law and Practice, 1998-2000

Federal Bar Council

Member

Current

Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Member

Current

Activities: Ethics Committee, 2014-2017

New York State Bar  # 2187821

Member

1988 - Current

New York

Since 1988

U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit

U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court Southern District of New York

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