Harry W. Lipman, a member of RLR since January 2002, joined the firm in October 2000 as Special Counsel, having been associated with Proskauer Rose LLP and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP.

Mr. Lipman concentrates his practice on representing businesses and individuals in commercial disputes and litigation in both state and federal courts, and in arbitration. His varied experience includes handling matters, at the trial-court and appellate levels, involving contract and partnership disputes, professional malpractice, allegations of fraud and breach of fiduciary duty, commercial landlord and tenant litigation, real estate and cooperative- and condominium-related issues, construction law, securities and regulatory actions, trademark and copyright matters, restrictive covenant, severance, and other employment-related disputes, art law, estates law, and entertainment law. Mr. Lipman also has expertise in defending civil RICO claims and has been involved in numerous civil RICO actions, including NOW v. Scheidler, in which he authored a brief amici curiae to the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Lipman is also the author of numerous articles on alternative dispute resolution law and procedure, and on class action litigation.

Mr. Lipman received his B.A. degree, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Columbia College in 1986, having spent a year toward that degree at Oriel College, Oxford, England. He received his J.D. degree from Columbia Law School in 1990, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and director of the First-Year Moot Court Program. Mr. Lipman is admitted to practice in both New York and Connecticut, including, among other courts, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of Connecticut.