Partner Mark C. Zauderer, a prominent New York litigator, focuses his practice on trials, arbitrations and appeals of business and commercial cases throughout the United States and frequently serves as an arbitrator and private mediator of significant disputes. He is the immediate past President of the Federal Bar Council and a member of the Board of Editors of the New York Law Journal. In 2003, Zauderer was appointed by Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye as Chair of New York’s Commission on the Jury, a blue ribbon panel of lawyers and judges charged with finding ways to improve New York’s jury system. He also served as a member of the Chief Judge's Commercial Courts Task Force, which implemented the establishment of the New York State Court System's Commercial Division and as member of the Office of Court Administration's Program on the Profession and the Courts, which drafted New York's current sanctions rules. Zauderer is a past chair of the 2000 member Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association, served as a delegate to its House of Delegates, as a member of the Special Committee on Cameras in the Courts, and chaired the Association's Steering Committee on Commerce and Industry. He also served as a member of the Committee on the Judiciary, the Committee on Professional Responsibility, and the Committee on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Zauderer currently serves as a member of the Governor’s Judicial Screening Committee for the Appellate Division, Second Department and a member of the Chief Administrative Judge's Advisory Committee on Civil Practice and lectures frequently and provides media commentary on litigation related issues.  He was formerly a partner with Solomon, Zauderer, Ellenhorn, Frischer & Sharp, a firm he co-founded in 1981.  Zauderer received his JD from the New York University School of Law. 

Over many decades, Zauderer has acted as lead trial lawyer in many significant business litigations in federal and state courts throughout the United States.  His matters have included:

• Representation of major national and international companies in complex business disputes.
• Defense of antitrust and securities class actions.
• The successful appeal of a seminal case defining the extent of the extraterritorial application of the U.S. Securities Laws. Itoba Ltd. v. Lep Group PLC, 54 F.3d 118 (2d Cir. 1995), cert. denied, 516 U.S. 1044 (1996).
• Acting as lead trial counsel in significant real estate disputes involving such issues as restrictive covenants, claims arising out of diversion of water, claims of competing purchasers, real estate brokerage disputes, and easements.
• Representation of major companies and individuals in Federal and State government investigations.
• SEC investigations, including representation of a major university in connection with an insider trading investigation.
• Trials of complex partnership disputes.
• Representation of major New York City law firms in complex litigations and trials involving breach of fiduciary claims by former partners, and in significant malpractice matters.
• Court appointment as special referee.
• Service as arbitrator and as a private and court-appointed mediator in major business disputes.