Joshua Sohn’s practice focuses on complex commercial, real estate, and securities litigation. He has experience representing developers, lenders, public companies, private companies, broker/dealers, private equity firms, venture capital funds, and hedge funds, as well as the officers, directors, and principals of those entities. Mr. Sohn represents and advises these clients in connection with real estate disputes, forclosures, corporate governance disputes, corporate control contests, shareholder disputes, SEC investigations, stock ownership disputes, securities fraud issues, insider trading issues, contract interpretation disputes, and other commercial disputes. He litigates in state and federal courts across the country. Mr. Sohn’s experience includes trying cases in state and federal courts and arbitrating before the FINRA (formerly NASD).

Admissions

• New York
• United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
• United States District Court for the Western District of New York
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• United States Supreme Court

Memberships

• Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Member
• City Bar Pro Bono Society
• Cardozo Alumni Association, Chairman (2000-2002)
• ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Corporate Governance Sub-Committee, Co-chair

Publications

• Co-author, "Recent Developments in the Law Affecting Corporate Counsel," Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal, Winter 2009 (44:2)
• "Liable Until Proven Innocent: The Illogic of the Current Pleading Standard for Securities Act §§11 and 12 Claims," New York Law Journal (August 2008)
• Co-author, “When Is Insider Trading Subject To Criminal Prosecution?“; New York Law Journal (July 2008)
• "Recent Developments in the Law Affecting Corporate Counsel," ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal (Winter 2007)
• Co-author, "SEC Enforcement Activities," Chapter 10 in Securities Regulation Series: Federal Securities Act of 1933 (A.A. Sommer, ed., Matthew Bender, 2007)
• "Employment Discrimination Lawyers, the Doctor Will See You Now," Employment Discrimination Litigation: Behavioral, Quantitative, and Legal Perspectives 491-502 (Frank J. Landy, ed. 2005)