Steven M. Richman
Partner
Duane Morris LLP
1940 Route 70 East, Suite 200
Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
USA
Phone: +1 856 874 4213
Fax: +1 609 228 6032
Email: SMRichman@duanemorris.com

New York Address
Duane Morris LLP
1540 Broadway
New York, NY 10036-4086
Phone: +1 212 692 1000
Fax: +1 212 692 1020

Steven M. Richman practices in the areas of commercial and international law and litigation, including real estate, corporate/shareholder disputes, contracts, construction litigation, energy law, art law, arbitration, secured transactions, intellectual property, bankruptcy and antitrust.

Mr. Richman is secretary of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation and former chair of the International Law Section, Antitrust Committee, and New Jersey Lawyer Magazine Editorial Board. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey State Bar Association. In addition, Mr. Richman is a member of the editorial board of The New Jersey Lawyer newspaper.

Within the American Bar Association, Mr. Richman has twice received the Outstanding Subcommittee Chair award within the Litigation Section, as well as an award for Outstanding Newsletter Editor for the Trial Practice Committee newsletter. He currently is communications officer for the ABA International Law Section, a vice chair of the International Litigation Committee of the ABA International Law Section, a member of the ABA House of Delegates, and a member of the ABA Human Rights Institute Advisory Council. He also is publications officer of the Sales Committee of the International Bar Association and co-communications officer of the Professional Ethics Committee. Mr. Richman has written numerous legal articles and books on federal civil practice and international, bankruptcy, commercial and constitutional law and political issues and is a frequent CLE lecturer.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York and California, he is a 1980 graduate of New York University Law School, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif, and a graduate of Drew University.

Areas of Practice

• Commercial Litigation (anti-trust, bankruptcy, contract, foreclosure, intellectual property, art law, energy, patent litigation)
• International Law

Representative Matters

• Obtained summary judgment for Niscon, Inc. in a products liability action arising from an accident in which an actor fell through a trap door of a bridge on the set of the Broadway production of the musical The Little Mermaid. The court determined that Niscon could not be held strictly liable because there was no evidence that the automation software it provided to allow remote operation of the trap door was defectively designed or malfunctioned. Bailey v. Disney Worldwide Shared Services, et al., Index No. 113072/08 (N.Y. Sup. Ct, N.Y. County Feb. 10, 2010).
• Morton International v. Redland Minerals Ltd., --F.3rd.---(3rd Cir. 2006)(Superfund contribution case)
• Duruaku v. BB&T Bank, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44390 (D.N.J. 2006)(class action)
• Better Packages, Inc. v. Zheng, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30119 (D.N.J. 2006)(trademark infringement action)
• Pro Spice, Inc v. Omni Trade Group, Inc., 2001 U.S. Disdt. LEXIS 14934 (E.D. Pa. 2001)
• Rossi v. Standard Roofings, 156 F.3d 452 (1998), aff'g in part, rev'g in part, 958 F. Supp. 976 (D.N.J. 1997) (antitrust successful respondent from summary judgment ruling)
• Rolo v. City Investing Co. Liquidating Trust, 156 F.3d 644 (1998), aff'g 897 F. Supp. 826 (D.N.J. 1995), decision before remand, 845 F. Supp. 182 (D.N.J. 1994) (local counsel RICO case)
• Sutkowski v. Director, Division of Taxation, 16 N.J. Tax 231 (1996), reversed, __ N.J. Super. __
• Schiff v. Division of Taxation, 15 N.J. Tax 370 (1995)
• Cross Westchester Development Corp. v. Sleepy Hollow Motor Court, Inc., 222 A.D. 2d 644, 636 N.Y.S. 2d 372 (2d Dept. 1995)
• Conley v. Dan-Webforming Intern, A/S, 1992 WL 401628 (D. Del. 1992)(breach of contract, rescission, trade secrets)
• Johnson & Johnson v. D.A.L. Intern. Trading Co., 798 F.2d 100 (3rd Cir. 1986) (trial counsel in gray market case)
• Grasso v. I.R.S., 785 F.2d 70 (3rd Cir. 1986) (wrote trial brief utilized by 3rd Circuit in Freedom of Information Act issue)
• National Metalizing v. Foster, 220 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 1042 (D.N.J. 1982)(trade secrets case)

Professional Activities

• American Bar Association
  - Member, ABA House of Delegates, 2006-present
  - Member, ABA Center for Human Rights Advisory Committee, 2007-present
  - Program Chair, Section of International Law, 2012-present
  -- Communications Officer, 2010-present
  -- International Litigation Committee
  --- Vice Chair for Communications, 2005-present
  --- Latin America and Caribbean Steering Group, 2007-present
  - Member, Section of Litigation
  -- Task Force on the Judiciary, 2004
  -- Editor, Trial Committee Newsletter, 2002-2005
  -- Trial and Pre-Trial Practice Committees
  --- Chair, Subcommittee on Law and Literature, 2000-present
  -- Appellate Practice Committee
  --- Co-Chair, Membership Subcommittee, 2005-present
  -- Liaison to International Law Section on behalf of International Litigation Committee, 2005-present
• New Jersey State Bar Association
  - Board of Trustees, 2001-2007
  - Co-Chair, Judicial Administration Committee, 2005-2007
  - Member, Amicus Committee, 2005-2007
  - Member, Editorial Board, The New Jersey Lawyer
  - Member (and former Chair), Editorial Board, The New Jersey Lawyer
  - Former Chair, International Law and Organizations Section
  - Former Chair, Antitrust Committee
• New Jersey State Bar Foundation
  - Secretary, 2007-present
  - Board of Trustees, former member
  - Member, Editorial Board, Legal Eagle
• Lawyers Advisory Committee for the Federal Court, District of New Jersey
• International Bar Association
  - Publications Officer, International Sales and Contracts Committee, 2007-present
  - Executive Committee, Litigation Committee, 2007-present
  - Co-Communications Officer, Professional Ethics Committee
• Mercer County Bar Association
• Adjunct Professor, International Business Law, The College of New Jersey, Spring 2000-2006
• Lecturer, Global Business Institute, Mercer County Community College, Winter 2000, Spring 2001

Admissions

• New Jersey
• New York
• Pennsylvania
• California
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• Supreme Court of the United States

Education

• New York University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1980
  - Order of the Coif
  - Member, Annual Survey of American Law
  - Semi-finalist, NYU Annual Moot Court Competition, 1979-80
• Drew University, B.A., summa cum laude, 1977

Civic and Charitable Activities

• Vice president, Board of Trustees, New Jersey State Museum
• Founding Member and Chairman of Board of Directors, Canadian-American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey, 1999-

Honors and Awards

• Named a New Jersey SuperLawyer, 2005-2013
• Recipient, Award for ABA International Law Section Best Spring Meeting CLE program on "International Intellectual Property and the Art of the Appeal," August 2008
• Listed in Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition, 2009 and 2010
• Recipient, Outstanding Editor Award for work on the American Bar Association's Trial Committee newsletter, August 2003
• Recipient, Award for Outstanding Subcommittee Chair, American Bar Association Litigation Section, 2001 and 2002
• New Jersey State Bar Association Distinguished Legislative Services Award, 2000 (for spearheading adoption of Continuity of Contract legislation, signed into law May 2000)
• Listed in The New York Area's Best Lawyers by New York Magazine, 2006
• 2006 Plainsboro Community Artist of the Year
• AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Selected Publications

• Author, "Automation Systems and Product Liability: Best Practices," Law360, January 25, 2013
• Author, "International Contracts: What Practitioners Need to Know," New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, December 2012
• Author, "Between Scylla and Charybdis: Settlement Offers and the Arbitration Process," New Jersey Lawyer, April 2011
• Author, "Outsourcing and International Law," ABA Section of International Law's International Law News, Winter 2011
• Author, "The Seven 'Ps' Of International Contracts," Law360, May 25, 2010
• Chapter Author, "Conflict of Laws," 2012 New Jersey Federal Civil Procedure, published by The New Jersey Law Journal
• "New Jersey Case with International Significance: Appellate Court Stays Enforcement of Foreign Country Money-Judgments Recognition Act ," Duane Morris Alert, May 10, 2010
• Co-author, "An Overview of Enforcement of Foreign Orders and Judgments in American Courts," New Jersey Lawyer, February 2010
• Contributing Author, The Practitioner's Guide to Appellate Advocacy, American Bar Association, 2010
• Author, "Focusing on Damages in Commercial Litigation," New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, February 2008
• "Recent Developments in Forum Non Conveniens," Union Internationale des Avocats Commission Newsletter, 2006
• Editor and contributing author, "Selected Issues in International Litigation," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2006
• Contributor, The 2nd Annual Emerging Issues in Cross-Border Commercial Litigation Seminar, Hamilton Law Society, 2006
• Special Editor and Contributing Author, International Law issue of New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, August 2006
• Book Review of Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture by Marc Galanter, appearing in New Jersey Lawyer, February 2006
• Author, "Anti-Suit Injunctions," International Bar Association's International Litigation News, September 2004
• Special Editor, Antitrust Law issue, and author, "Extra-Territorial Effect of Antitrust Laws," New Jersey Lawyer, June 2004
• Contributing author, Encyclopedia of New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 2004
• Co-author, "Authority of Agent to sue for Principal and Potential Liability of Both Where the Agent Contracts for the Principal," American Bar Association Litigation Section Trial Practice Committee Newsletter, Spring 2004
• Author, "Removal and the Amount in Controversy," New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, February 2004
• Special Editor, Intellectual Property Law issue, and author, "Shades of Gray: Current Legal Issues Regarding Parallel Imports," New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, October 2003
• Special Editor, Collection Law issue, contributing author, "Enforcement of Foreign Judgements, New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, August 2002
• Co-author, "Playing the Odds," New Jersey Lawyer, February 2002
• Co-Chair/Presenter, "Law and Literature: Storytelling in Today's Courtroom," American Bar Association's Section of Litigation Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona, May 11, 2001
• Co-author, "Introduction to International Contract Issues" chapter, International Law and Transactions, NJ ICLE, 2000
• "Conflict of Laws" chapter, New Jersey Federal Civil Practice, New York Law Journal Press, 1999
• "Arthur Conan Doyle, L.L.D.," New Jersey Lawyer, December 1999
• Special Editor, "Law and the Internet" issue of New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, August 1999
• "Recent Developments Regarding the United Nationals Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods," 12 New Jersey International Lawyer, Number 2, June 1999
• Co-author, "New Jersey Foreclosure and Repossession," National Business Institute, 1999
• Co-author, Successful Collection of Judgments, National Business Institute, 1999 and 1998
• Co-author, Collection Law in New Jersey, Lorman Education Services, 1999 and 1998
• Editor, Special International Law issue of New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, contributing author on NAFTA and trade regulation, January/February 1998
• Co-author, Introduction to Private International Law: Representing Your Client in the Global Marketplace, NJ ICLE 1998
• "Severest Consequences," New Jersey International Lawyer, Vol. XI, No. 4, 1998
• Review of Prime Time Law: Fictional Television as Legal Narrative, New Jersey Lawyer, 1998
• "Pied Piper v. Hameln," New Jersey Lawyer, October 1998
• "Law and Literature: The Manners of Lawyers," VIII Committee on Pretrial Practice and Discovery 27, Winter 1998
• "Recent Developments in Application of Comity Principles," New Jersey International Law and Organizations Section Newsletter, Vol. X, No. 2, 1997
• "William Cullen Bryant and the Poetry of Natural Law," 30 Akron Law Review 661, 1997
• Co-author, The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, National Business Institute, 1997
• Casenote, "Fifth Circuit Renders Split Decision in Vacating Default Judgment against United Arab Emirates," 16 International Law News 19, No. 1, 1997
• "Ships that Pass in the Night: Wallace Stevens and the Mt. Desert," The Wallace Stevens Journal, 1997
• Review of Ian Ward's Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives, American Book Review, 1996
• Note, "Fidelity Partners, Inc. v. Philippine Export and Foreign Loan Guarantee Corporation," New Jersey International Law and Organizations Section Newsletter, Vol IX, No. 3, 1996
• "Graying of America: Parallel Distribution and Copyright," New Jersey International Law and Organizations Section Newsletter, Vol. IX, No. 2 (1996)
• Editor, "1996 Law and Literature Symposium: Language of Lawyering and Judging," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education: New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1996
• "Determining Status Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act," New Jersey International Law and Organizations Section Newsletter, Vol. IX, No. 1, 1995
• "Crossing the Pond: The Impact of Foreign Bankruptcies in the United States," New Jersey International Law and Organizations Section Newsletter, Vol. VIII, No. 2, 1995
• "Into the Breach: The American Experience with the United States Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods," New Jersey International Law and Organizations Section Newsletter, Vol. VIII, No. 1, 1995
• Editor, "1995 Law and Literature Symposium," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1995
• "Sidney Lanier and the Poetry of Legal Morality," 25 Cumberland Law Review 309, 1995
• Law Journal 603, 1990, cited in court in In re Downingtown, 172 B.R. 813 (Bkrtcy E.D. Pa. 1994)
• "Edgar Lee Masters and the Poetics of Legal Realism," 31 California Western Law Review 103, 1994
• "Winterset and the Recrudescence of Ressentiment," 18 Nova Law Review 1863, 1994
• "More Equal than Others: State Sovereign Immunity Under the Bankruptcy Code," 21 Rutgers, 1990
• "Private Sale of Collateral Under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code: Some Practical Considerations for the Creditor-in Possession," 15 Westchester Bar Journal 295, 1988
• "Voices that Go Bump in the Night: Conflicting Rights under the Wiretap Statutes," 11 Seton Hall Legislative Journal 171, 1987
• "Election Law," 1979 Annual Survey of American Law
• Various book reviews and photography in New Jersey Lawyer

Selected Speaking Engagements

• Program Chair and Moderator, "Navigating Cross-Border Professional Ethics: The Legal Terrain," American Bar Association, International Law Section and German Bar Association, International Section, Successfully Navigating Hazardous Waters: The Third Conference on Transatlantic Deals and Disputes, Frankfurt, June 3, 2013
• Co-Speaker, "Boilerplate Clauses in Contracts: Use at Your Own Risk," Pennsylvania Bar Institute, PBI Professional Development Conference Center, Pittsburgh, June 27, 2012
• Co-Speaker, "Boilerplate Clauses in Contracts: Use at Your Own Risk," Pennsylvania Bar Institute, PBI Conference Center, Mechanicsburg, June 13, 2012
• Co-Speaker, "Boilerplate Clauses in Contracts: Use at Your Own Risk," Pennsylvania Bar Institute, CLE Conference Center, Philadelphia, May 10, 2012
• Speaker, "Cross Border Professional Ethics," American Bar Association, International Law Section's Spring Meeting, April 16-20, 2012
• Speaker, "Damages in Cross Border Litigation and Arbitration," American Bar Association, International Law Section's Spring Meeting, April 16-20, 2012
• Speaker, "Gag Orders and Cross Border Injunctions in Social Media/Privacy Contexts," American Bar Association, International Law Section's Spring Meeting, April 16-20, 2012
• Speaker, "Boilerplate Clauses in Contracts: Avoiding Unintended Consequences—Common Pitfalls and Practical Solutions for Standard Contract Provisions," Strafford webinar, May 17, 2011
• Program Chair and Moderator, "Pressing Matters: A Comparative Review of Defamation in the Borderless World," ABA Section of International Law 2011 Spring Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 6, 2011
• Program Chair and Moderator, "You Always Hurt the One You Love: Parent and Sibling Company Liability for Corporate Affiliates," American Bar Association Section of International Law 2010 Fall Meeting, Paris, November 3, 2010
• Speaker, "Export 101 – International Trade: Resources and Advice from the Experts," Canadian American Chamber – Mid-Atlantic seminar, October 15, 2010
• Session Chair, "Structuring the International Sales Contract: When the Boilerplate Bursts," International Bar Association 2010 Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, October 6, 2010
• Speaker, "Legal Issues: Contracts, Export Compliance," Export University's Export 101—Introduction to Exporting seminar, Paramus, New Jersey, May 18, 2010
• Speaker, "International Contracts: The 7 Ps," Export.gov webinar, September 22, 2011
• Program Chair, "Old Law, New Facts: Madoff, Fraud and the TransAtlantic Perspective Dispute Resolution/Litigation, Latin America/Caribbean"; Speaker, "CISG Hot Spots for Commercial Lawyers and Litigators Business/Transactional, Dispute Resolution/Litigation, Young Lawyers," American Bar Association International Law Section Fall 2009 Meeting, Miami, Florida, October 27-31, 2009
• Moderator, panel discussion on United States legal issues concerning transnational practice, ABA-IBA Conference on Transnational Litigation in Vienna, Austria, June 4-5, 2009
• Speaker, "Enforcement of Foreign Injunctions in the United States," Ontario Bar Association's 2009 Institute Civil Litigation Program, February 2, 2009
• Panelist, "New Funding Techniques for New Litigation," ABA-IBA's "The Next Big Wave of Cross-Border Litigation" program, Miami, Florida, October 6-7, 2008
• Speaker, "International contract issues, including matters concerning the Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)," Middlesex County (NJ) Bar Association Tax Committee, July 22, 2008
• Speaker, "Hot topics in international law and international contract issues and incoterms," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education's 2008 Business Law Symposium, April 29, 2008
• Organizer and Panelist, "Intellectual Property and the Art of the Appeal," ABA International Law Section, April 4, 2008 (New York)
• Panelist, "Following the Money," ABA International Law Section, London, England, October 5, 2007
• Panelist, "International Business Transactions," Institute for Continuing Legal Education program, September 20, 2007
• Moderator and Panelist, "Fleeced: Colchis v. Jason," art law program, ABA International Law Section Spring Meeting, Washington, D.C., May 2007
• Co-moderator and Panelist, "Intellectual Property Enforcement in Latin America: Battles Here and There," Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 13-14, 2007
• Moderator, "Intellectual Property Litigation in Latin America," ABA International Law Section Fall Meeting, Miami, Florida, November 2006
• Panelist, "2nd Annual Cross-Border Litigation Program," Hamilton Law Association, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, May 2006
• Moderator and Panelist, "Civil and Common Law Systems," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Aruba, November 2005
• Speaker, "Avoiding the Pitfalls of Litigation: Practical Pointers," Gowlings Technology Seminar Series, Kanata, Ontario, March 3, 2006
• Panelist, Moderator and Co-Planner, "Doing Business with Canada," Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Philadelphia, November 2005
• Speaker, "Best Practices Series: Effective International Contracting," New Jersey District Export Council seminar, Piscataway, New Jersey, September 2005
• Panelist, "Negotiating and Drafting Major Commercial Agreements," ATLAS Information, Philadelphia, June 2005
• Panelist, "International Dispute Proceedings," Association of Finnish Lawyers, March 2005
• Panelist, "International Law and Transactions," New Jersey ICLE Seminar, February 2005
• Moderator and Panelist, "International Litigation," New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, January 2004