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EDUCATION
Harvard Law School, J.D. 1990, cum laude; General Editor, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Cornell University, B.A. 1987, with distinction in all subjects; Phi Beta Kappa
JUDICIAL CLERKSHIP
Hon. Mary M. Schroeder, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
BAR ADMISSION
1991, New York
AV Peer Review Rated
BIOGRAPHY
Adrienne Koch has been with the firm’s litigation department since 1993, and has been a partner since 1998. One of the focuses of her practice has been employment matters, and her experience in that area includes both discrimination cases (in which she has represented management clients in both court and administrative proceedings) and matters involving issues of contract, compensation, and unfair competition. Like the firm’s other litigation partners, however, Adrienne also has a broad range of experience in all types and phases of commercial litigation and dispute resolution beyond the area of employment law, and has handled cases involving issues of contract, intellectual property, commercial real estate, bankruptcy, defamation, and business fraud and other business torts.
In addition to appearing in Federal and State courts and before arbitration panels and administrative agencies domestically, Adrienne has experience in international arbitration and in taking discovery outside of the United States pursuant to the Hague Convention on Taking Evidence Abroad.
Adrienne has been extensively involved with the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where she has served as a member of the Judiciary Committee, the Committee on Professional Discipline, the Committee on Labor and Employment Law, the Committee on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction and the Committee on Civil Rights, and as Secretary to the Council on Judicial Administration. She is also a member of the American Bar Association’s Section on Litigation and Section on Labor and Employment Law. Adrienne has appeared as a guest commentator on business issues on Bloomberg Television and on CNN Financial News.
COURT ADMISSIONS
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
U.S. District Court, Southern District of N.Y.
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of N.Y.
BAR AFFILIATIONS
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
American Bar Association
OTHER MEMBERSHIPS
Fellow, Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce
Soroptimist International of New York City (Vice President, 2006 - present)
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Service of Subpoenas Under Rule 45 and the Influence of Treatises, New York Law Journal, July 1, 2004
Does a Sponsor Have a Duty to Sell Co-Op Shares?, New York Law Journal, July 22, 2002
Framing a Coda to Circuit City, New York Law Journal, May 24, 2002
Mandating Arbitration After Circuit City, New York Law Journal, June 7, 2001
Awarding Attorneys’ Fees and Liquidated Damages, New York Law Journal, March 28, 2000 (co-author)
Finding What Works: Tips on Making Restrictive Covenants Both More Likely to Be Enforced and Less Likely to Be Violated, The Alert (Federal Bar Association), December 1998, at 1 (co-author)
The Supreme Court’s New Guidelines on Sexual Harassment: Responding to Expanding Definitions and Expectations, The Alert (Federal Bar Association), December 1998, at 4
Comment, Reconstruction, Deconstruction and Legislative Response: The 1988 Supreme Court Term and the Civil Rights Act of 1990, 25 HARV. C.R.-C.L. L. REV. 475 (1990) (co-author)
Moderator and Program Chair, Ethical Challenges in Employment Law, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, April 11, 2005
Panelist, Employment Restrictions in the “Last Bastion” of the Employment at Will Doctrine: What Employees Can & Can’t Do, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, October 13, 2004
Moderator and Program Chair, Ethical Challenges in Employment Law; Resolving Real World Issues, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, January 14, 2004
Panelist, ADEA Litigation: Recent Developments and Strategies for the Advanced Practitioner, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, May 6, 2003
Moderator and Program Chair, Ethical Challenges in Employment Law, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, October 23, 2002
RECENT REPORTED CASES
In re Fitch, Inc., 330 F.3d 104 (2d Cir. 2003) (rejecting claim of journalist’s privilege made by credit rating agency)
Quinn v. Thomas H. Lee Co., 61 F.Supp.2d 13 (S.D.N.Y. 1999), aff’d sub nom. Quinn v. Teti, 234 F.3d 1262 (2d Cir. 2000) (holding that purchaser of corporate assets at foreclosure sale takes such assets free and clear of claims against seller, and therefore cannot be subject to successor liability)
Alvarado v. Manhattan Worker Career Center, 2002 WL 31760208 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 10, 2002) (awarding summary judgment in favor of client, and sanctions against plaintiff and his attorney, in discrimination case)
McMahon v. Providence Capitol Enterprises, Inc., 236 B.R. 296 (S.D.N.Y. 1999) (denying plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment against client in dispute over a complex set of reinsurance arrangements governed by English law)
Speadmark, Inc. v. Federated Department Stores, Inc., 176 F.R.D. 116 (S.D.N.Y. 1997) (ordering Federated’s chief executive officer to submit to deposition, based on his personal involvement in relevant transactions, rejecting defendant’s argument that such an “apex” deposition was unwarranted)
Timoney v. Newmark & Co. Real Estate, Inc., 299 A.D.2d 201, 750 N.Y.S.2d 271 (1st Dept. 2002) (quashing subpoenas served on non-party client)
Gild v. Fried, 298 A.D.2d 275, 748 N.Y.S.2d 736 (1st Dept. 2002) (dismissing complaint against client on ground that existence of rent impairing violations was for agency, not court, to determine)
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