Friedman has earned the Mansfield Certification Plus designation through Diversity Lab’s 2022-2023 Midsize Mansfield Rule certification program. Mansfield’s accreditation process seeks to ensure equal opportunity and access to leadership roles. The focus is on opening the door wider and ensuring that opportunities for advancement are inclusive for everyone. Named for the first woman admitted to practice law in the United States, Mansfield takes a behavioral science approach that embeds accountability, transparency, and knowledge sharing into talent practices. More

Friedman Kaplan is proud to announce the promotion of litigator Blair Albom to counsel. “Blair has been an invaluable contributor to our firm for many years, both by virtue of her exceptional work on behalf of our clients and because of her deep dedication to the firm’s culture. She is a talented lawyer and wonderful colleague, and we are thrilled to recognize her with this well-deserved promotion,” said Management Committee member Jeffrey Wang. More

Eric Corngold, Edward Friedman, Lance Gotko, Bruce Kaplan, and Eric Seiler are recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® guide’s 2024 New York, NY listings, and Elizabeth Bierut, Bria Delaney, Alexandra Elenowitz-Hess, and Jake Lewis are recognized in the New York, NY listings of the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America. More

Partner Priyanka Wityk has joined the editorial board of the Women Lawyers Journal, which focuses on issues relevant to women in the law and strives to drive coalition and community among women lawyers across the country and the world. More

For the third consecutive year, Bloomberg Law has named Friedman Kaplan to its annual Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Framework, which is a listing of law firms that meet or exceed a rising standard for diversity, equity, and inclusion in their firm. More

Friedman Kaplan partner and Management Committee member Mala Ahuja Harker was recognized by Crain’s New York Business in its 2023 Notable Women in Law list, which highlights 100 leading female lawyers in the New York City metropolitan area. More

Friedman Kaplan senior counsel Steven M. Pesner, P.C. has been named to the 2023 list of Client Service All-Stars by The BTI Consulting Group. Among those recognized, Steve is one of only 83 attorneys in the country designated as an “Elite MVP” for earning All-Star status in two consecutive years. More

Friedman Kaplan is recognized in the 2023 edition of The Legal 500 United States in its general commercial disputes listing as well as in the corporate investigations and white collar criminal defense section, in which the firm is ranked in the “advice to individuals” category as well as recognized as a firm to watch in the “advice to corporates” category. More

Friedman Kaplan is ranked in the 2023 edition of Chambers USA in its General Commercial Litigation and White-Collar Crime and Government Investigations categories in New York. Further, partners Anne Beaumont, Edward Friedman, Jason Rubinstein, and Eric Seiler are recognized individually for Commercial Litigation, and partners Eric Corngold, Mary Mulligan, Mala Ahuja Harker, and counsel Bonnie Baker are individually listed in the White-Collar Crime and Government Investigations category. More

Litigation associate Scott Henney was recently elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the New York County Lawyers Association (NYCLA). Scott also serves as co-chair to NYCLA’s Appellate Courts Committee, which received NYCLA’s 2023 Eppler Prize. More

BTI Consulting Group has recognized Friedman Kaplan as part of its Client Service 200 list in its recently released report, BTI Client Service A-Team: Survey of Law Firm Client Service Performance 2023. Friedman Kaplan was also one of only 50 law firms named as BTI Midsize Client Service Masters. More

Friedman Kaplan’s client, the Official Stanford Investors Committee, achieved a series of major settlements to end long-running litigation arising out of R. Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scheme, which ended in 2009 and was one of the largest financial frauds in U.S. history. More

Sofie Syed has been selected to join the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s 2023 class of Fellows, and Dania Bardavid, and Rupita Chakraborty have been selected to join LCLD’s 2023 class of Pathfinders. More

With great pleasure, we announce that our firm will now be known as Friedman Kaplan Seiler Adelman & Robbins LLP. The addition of partner Lawrence Robbins to the firm’s name recognizes his stellar career as a renowned litigator with a multi-faceted practice including high-stakes complex commercial and bankruptcy litigation, high-profile investigations, twenty arguments before the United States Supreme Court, and many important pro bono matters, as well as Larry’s major contributions to our firm since joining the partnership last year. More

Friedman Kaplan is pleased to announce that partner Mary Mulligan will be co-head of the firm’s Chambers and Legal 500-recognized white collar criminal defense practice. She has distinguished herself as a leader in the white collar defense bar and joins partner Eric Corngold in overseeing the group. More

Friedman Kaplan is proud to announce the promotions of Elizabeth Bierut and David Ranzenhofer to counsel. More

Litigation associates Scott H. Henney and Alexandra G. Elenowitz-Hess helped author a recent report issued by the Appellate Courts Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association (NYCLA). The report provides non-partisan, objective information about each of the seven candidates in consideration to be nominated by New York Governor Kathy Hochul to fill the Chief Judge vacancy on the New York Court of Appeals. More