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Description: This past year the Supreme Court issued several significant decisions construing the Federal Arbitration Act.
This program will explore those decisions and others addressing complicated procedural aspects of the Act. The presenters, who have years of experience representing clients in arbitrations under the Act, will discuss the impact of these recent decisions on arbitration practice.
Presenter Bios
Edward M. Spiro is a litigator with many years of experience handling complex commercial and criminal litigation at the trial and appellate level in state and federal courts, and in arbitrations for high-profile, high-net worth individual and corporate clients. Ed has represented clients in diverse matters, including business and partnership disputes, securities litigation, employment disputes, including sexual harassment and discrimination, tax fraud, real estate disputes, professional responsibility and liability, and insurance coverage litigation.
Ed has extensive experience defending litigation related to concurrent governmental investigations or prosecutions, including class actions, derivative cases, and other complex matters involving the securities and antitrust laws. He has represented public and privately held corporations, financial institutions, hedge funds, accounting firms, law firms, and corporate directors and officers, and served as an expert in the areas of legal ethics and standards of care. He recently represented the former CEO of Petrobras in a securities class action, and secured a landmark appellate decision addressing the standard to be applied in challenging international arbitration awards.
Ed was honored with a Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing. He is recognized as a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation: The Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys in the area of General Commercial Litigation. Ed is also recommended by The Legal 500 United States for Securities: Shareholder Litigation and is regularly listed in Thomson Reuters’ Super Lawyers.
Ed is co-author of Civil Practice in the Southern District of New York, 2d Ed. (Thomson Reuters 2022), a two-volume treatise updated annually, and co-author of a regular New York Law Journal column on civil practice in the Southern District of New York. He has lectured on professional ethics for the Practicing Law Institute and for several years chaired a New York City Bar Association CLE program entitled “Ethics, Discipline and Real World Obligations.”
Ed recently completed his second term as a member of the Attorney Grievance Committee of the Appellate Division, First Department. He is a former member of the House of Delegates of the New York State Bar Association; a former director of the New York County Lawyers’ Association and former Chair of its Committee on Professional Discipline; and a former Chair of the Committee on Professional Discipline of the New York City Bar Association. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the American Bar Association (Litigation and Criminal Justice Sections), the New York State Bar Association (Commercial and Federal Litigation Section), and the Federal Bar Council. In addition, Ed is a member of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York, Chair of its Audit Committee, and a director of the SUNY Research Foundation.
Christopher B. Harwood is a former federal prosecutor with many years of experience handling complex civil litigation, as well as criminal and regulatory matters. His extensive experience includes dozens of investigations, litigations, and settlements involving the False Claims Act, the Bank Secrecy Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and FIRREA. Chris’s cases have involved allegations of financial fraud, healthcare fraud, federal program and grant fraud, money laundering, failure to file SARs, failure to implement an effective anti-money laundering program, violation of U.S. sanctions laws, breach of contract, and employment discrimination and retaliation.
Chris previously served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where he was Co-Chief of the Civil Frauds Unit. In that role, Chris supervised approximately 40 attorneys in all aspects of their civil enforcement work, from investigation through trial. During his eight years in the Southern District of New York, Chris also personally litigated a wide range of civil enforcement matters, including cases brought under each of the statutes referenced above. These cases resulted in more than $2.3 billion in recoveries for the United States. In addition to litigating and supervising civil enforcement matters, Chris litigated defensive civil matters, prosecuted criminal matters, served as the Office’s coordinator of parallel (civil/criminal) proceedings, and was also the Office’s Civil Healthcare Fraud Coordinator.
Prior to joining the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s Office, Chris was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia. While at the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, Chris handled a full docket of defensive civil litigation, including cases arising under the First Amendment, the Administrative Procedure Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Rehabilitation Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Federal Tort Claims Act, the Freedom of Information Act, and the Privacy Act. Chris conducted civil trials during his stints in both the Southern District of New York and D.C., as well as appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Chris previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Norman H. Stahl of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the Honorable Joseph L. Tauro of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He also practiced at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP. Chris currently teaches a course on legal writing and oral advocacy at Columbia Law School, and is a frequent speaker on civil enforcement matters. Recently, Chris was named a "Rising Star" by the New York Law Journal, which recognizes the region’s most promising lawyers 40 and younger. Chris was one of only 31 attorneys to receive the honor. Additionally, Benchmark Litigation: The Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys named him to its “Under 40 Hot List” in 2019. In addition, Benchmark Litigation: The Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys has recognized Chris as a “Future Star” and named him to its “Under 40 Hot List” in 2019. The Legal 500 United States has recognized Chris in White Collar Criminal Defense.
Chris received his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 2003, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 2000.
 | | Practice Areas: | | Alternative Dispute Resolution, Complex Litigation, Litigation & Appeals | | | Online Media Type: | | Video | | | Production Date: | | 12/20/2022 | | | Level: | | Intermediate | | | Category: | | Standard | | | Duration: | | 1 Hours, 3 Minutes | | | Online Format: | | On Demand | | | Course Type: | | Public |
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| | • | Edward M. Spiro - Morvillo,Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C. | | • | Christopher Harwood - Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello, PC |
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