Jonathan A. Harris

Jonathan Harris is the firm’s founding and managing partner.  He counsels plaintiffs and defendants in high stakes litigation, arbitrations and investigations, and specializes in litigation against the country’s largest corporations, international financial institutions, and against the U.S. government.

In his role as defense counsel, Mr. Harris currently represents the family of the former president of Taiwan in a forfeiture action brought by the U.S. Government. Throughout his career he has represented high profile defendants in investigations and in actions brought by the Department of Justice and the SEC. In 2005, Mr. Harris served as lead clemency counsel for Stanley Tookie Williams. As plaintiffs’ counsel, Mr. Harris represents hedge funds, partnerships, investors and individuals in commercial, securities and employment matters.

Mr. Harris has been named a Super Lawyer for New York (2011 – 2014) in the areas of litigation and employment, and as American Lawyer’s Co-Litigator of the Week (October 2011).  The National Trial Lawyers organization named Mr. Harris to its elite list of Top 100 Trial Lawyers in New York in 2013. The National Association of Distinguished Counsel also selected him as a Member of the Nation’s Top One Percent of counsel.

Prior to founding the firm, Jon worked closely for a decade with legendary criminal trial lawyer Peter Fleming, Jr. at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, and practiced with prominent plaintiffs’ firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP.

Jon clerked for Federal Judge Thomas P. Griesa in the Southern District of New York. He is a 1984 graduate of Stanford University (AB, Phi Beta Kappa), and a 1987 graduate of Stanford Law School (JD, Order of the Coif). Mr. Harris is admitted to the bars of New York and California.

Stanford University, (AB, Phi Beta Kappa)

Stanford Law School, (JD, Order of the Coif)

Super Lawyer, litigation and employment (2011 – 2014) 

American Lawyer, Co-Litigator of the Week (October 2011)

The National Trial Lawyers, Top 100 Trial Lawyers in New York (2013)

The National Association of Distinguished Counsel, Member of the Nation’s Top One Percent of counsel(2015)

Ex-Prudential Broker Asks 2nd Circ. To Nix Negligence Claim

FINRA panel finds for Aurum against SocGen

Mr. Harris’ trial victories and representations since 2011 include:

• The exoneration of a prominent individual financial advisor against fraud charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission following a month-long federal jury trial in New York;
• A $61 million arbitration award for a hedge fund against a major international bank in one of the largest awards ever granted by a FINRA panel;
• A $21 million federal jury verdict for an entrepreneurial company in New York; a $5 million AAA award for investors against the general partner of a hedge fund;