Stephen E. Tisman
(Founding Partner)

•  Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, 1969. Graduate of the Columbia University School of Law, 1972. James Kent Scholar, International Fellow, and Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. Attended a session of the Hague Academy of International Law.

•  Practiced for 11 years in the litigation department of Proskauer Rose LLP, an international law firm with approximately 600 lawyers. In 1985 Mr. Tisman formed the law firm of Shiff & Tisman. He later opened the New York office of Margolis & Tisman LLP.

•  Mr. Tisman's practice principally consists of complex corporate and employment litigation (trials and appeals), and corporate business matters. His U.S. and international clients have included a multibillion dollar insurance company, an internationally-affiliated newspaper, not-for-profit organizations, a radio station, national consulting and actuarial firms, a reinsurance brokerage, a manufacturer of pates and specialty foods, apparel companies, a large travel agency, an "employee leasing" company, law firms and accounting firms, and a professional sports agent, among many, many others.

•  Admitted to practice in the State of New York. Admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeal for the Second and Third Circuits, and various United States District Courts. Mr. Tisman has litigated in virtually all of the courts of New York, and in state and federal courts throughout the U.S. He has practiced before state and federal administrative agencies, and has brought and defended arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association, the New York Stock Exchange, and the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD).

•  Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (served as member of its Council on Judicial Administration, and Committees on Federal Courts and State Legislation), American Bar Association, and New York State Bar Association.

•  Voted one of New York's for 2007.