Leslie Fagen
Leslie Fagen | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |  United States |
| Education | Yale College (BA) Columbia Law School (JD) |
| Occupation | Attorney |
| Employer | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison (former) |
Leslie Gordon Fagen is an American litigator. He was formerly a senior partner at the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. [1] He is now a member of boards,[2] a senior advisor[3] and a consultant for private and not for profit companies.[4]
Biography
Fagen was born in Brooklyn, New York. He earned his B.A. from Yale College in 1971, where he was a sabre fencer and captain of the varsity fencing team.[5] He went on to receive a J.D. from Columbia School of Law in 1974.[6] He clerked for Judge Jack B. Weinstein in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.[7]
Career
Fagen was formerly a senior partner in the Litigation Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.[8] As a trial lawyer, he had litigated on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants for more than forty two years.[9]
His work was profiled in an American Lawyer cover story, “The Lifesavers,” in which Paul Weiss was selected as the best litigation firm in the United States.[10] He has served as chair of the firm's Litigation Department.[11]
He is an adjunct lecturer in law at Columbia Law School[12] and an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School.[13]
Fagen is a trustee of the Kohlberg Foundation,[14] a member of the Board of The Brennan Center for Justice[15] and a member of the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors.[16] Fagen is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.[17]
He is the author of numerous publications on intellectual property, product liability and arbitration. Fagen is also the author of a monograph on the life of Paul, Weiss's late patriarch Judge Simon H. Rifkind, published in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law[18] and the editor of At 90. On the 90's[19].[9]
References
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- ^ "Brennan Center for Justice". www.brennancenter.org. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ "Columbia Law School". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ "Lightstone". www.lightstonegroup.com. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ Fullerton, Greg (February 11, 2021). "Yale Daily News". "New Fencing Coach Begins Innovations Early".
- ^ "Lightstone". www.lightstonegroup.com. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ "Brooklyn Law School". www.brooklaw.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ "Lightstone". www.lightstonegroup.com. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ "Lawdragon". www.lawdragon.com. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ Frankel, Alison (January 2006). "Litigation Department of the Year: The Lifesavers". The American Lawyer.
- ^ "Columbia Law School". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ "Leslie Gordon Fagen. Columbia Law School".
- ^ "Brooklyn Law School". www.brooklaw.ed. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ "Brooklyn Law School". www.brooklaw.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ "Brennan Center for Justice". www.brennancenter.org. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ "Columbia Law School". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ "American College of Trial Lawyers". www.actl.com. Retrieved 2025-07-18.
- ^ Newman, Roger K., ed. (2009). "The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law". Yale University Press. New Haven, CT. p. 459.
- ^ "At 90. On the 90's". The Journal of Simon H. Rifkind (Educational Alliance). 1992.