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Alan H. Scheiner
Counsel

Alan Scheiner represents LLF clients in financial and business litigation, including matters involving investment and commercial banking, derivatives, business torts, lender liability and financial fraud, as well as general commercial litigation. In the course of nearly 20 years litigating civil and criminal cases, Mr. Scheiner has also represented clients in white-collar criminal matters, regulatory investigations, constitutional litigation under Section 1983, state Attorney General civil-enforcement matters, and products liability, securities fraud and accounting litigation.

Mr. Scheiner's practice centers on commercial and investment banking disputes, including matters involving securities financing and credit derivatives. Representative matters include:

• Defense of a major financial institution in complex, multi-state litigation concerning allegations of excessive margin calls and undervaluation of collateral: LLF prevailed on a motion to dismiss in New York State court and obtained an affirmance on appeal; a related action is ongoing
• Defense of a major financial institution in a multi-million dollar fraud claim in the Southern District of New York: LLF prevailed on a motion to dismiss and obtained an affirmance on appeal in the Second Circuit
• Defense of a major financial institution in a multi-million dollar fraud claim in New York State court: LLF prevailed on a summary judgment motion and obtained an affirmance on appeal
• Representation of venture capital investors in the arbitration of contractual and business tort claims concerning the operation of an LLC: LLF obtained an arbitration victory which denied the adversary's claims and granted ownership of the adversary's LLC equity interest to LLF's client

Before joining LLF as Counsel in August 2007, Mr. Scheiner served for six years in the Corporation Counsel's Office of the City of New York as an Assistant Corporation Counsel and Senior Counsel in the Special Federal Litigation Division. In that role, Mr. Scheiner successfully defended several federal court jury trials and represented the City of New York and New York City Police Department officials and police officers in high-profile, complex civil rights litigation. Mr. Scheiner's prior law firm experience includes serving in the litigation groups of both Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, in New York, and Zuckerman Spaeder LLP in Washington, D.C. and New York.

Legal Teaching Positions

• Lecturer-in-Law, Columbia Law School, Instructor for Legal Practice Workshop, a course in brief writing and oral advocacy for first-year law students (Spring 2011, Spring 2012)
• Faculty Member, New York City Law Department's Trial Practice Training Program at Fordham University Law School (2007-2010)
• Faculty Member, Practicing Law Institute, 24th Annual Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation program
• Instructor, The New York City Law Department's deposition training program (2007)

Bar Associations

• Member, Federal Courts Committee, Bar Association of the City of New York
• Member, American Bar Association, Business Law Section (Banking Law Committee, Private Equity & Venture Capital Committee) and Litigation Section (Securities Litigation Committee)
• Member, Federal Bar Council

Education
Mr. Scheiner is a graduate of Columbia Law School, 1991, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar for three years. He received a B.A. with Honors in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986, and attended the London School of Economics for his junior year of college.

Publications

• State Subprime Lending Litigation and Federal Preemption: Toward a National Standard, 30 Pace L. Rev. 253 (2009). [pdf]
  
• The Next Wave: Developments in Credit Default Swap Litigation, Business Law Today, Vol. 18, No. 5, May/June 2009, at 53. [pdf]
  
• Excluding Police Practices Experts in Federal Court: The Rule Against "Telling the Jury What Result to Reach," The Municipal Lawyer (July/August 2008)
• Federal Preemption of State Subprime Lending Laws, New York Law Journal, at 4 & 7 (April 22, 2008)
• Judicial Assessment of Punitive Damages, the Seventh Amendment, and the Politics of Jury Power, 91 Colum. L. Rev. 142 (1991)
• Litigating Sexual Harassment After the 1991 Civil Rights Act, The Practical Litigator (ALI-ABA, March 1992)

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