Leslie Fagen

Leslie Gordon Fagen is an American litigator. He was formerly a senior partner at the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.^[1]

Fagen was born in Brooklyn, New York.^[2] He earned his B.A. from Yale College in 1971 and went on to receive a J.D. from Columbia School of Law in 1974.^[3][4] He clerked for Judge Jack B. Weinstein in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.^[5][6]

Fagen was formerly a senior partner in the Litigation Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.^[7][8] He had served as chair of the firm's Litigation Department.^[9][10] As a trial lawyer, he had litigated on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants.^[11] His work at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP was profiled in a 2006 cover story in The American Lawyer that highlighted the firm’s litigation practice.^[12]

In addition to his law practice, Fagen has taught as an adjunct lecturer at Columbia Law School and has served as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School.^[13][14]

Fagen has been involved with numerous nonprofit organizations. He serves on the boards of the Brennan Center for Justice^[15] and the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors,^[16] and he is a trustee of the Kohlberg Foundation.^[17] Fagen is also a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.^[18]

Fagen has written on topics such as intellectual property, product liability, and arbitration. He produced a biographical piece on Judge Simon H. Rifkind for The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law^[19] and edited the collection At 90. On the 90's.^[20]