Joseph D. Pizzurro

Practice

Co-managing partner, member of the Litigation Department and the Firm’s International Arbitration Practice Group, Mr. Pizzurro has been with the Firm since 1976 and became a partner in 1985. He has a wide range of experience in international commercial arbitration having acted as counsel for both claimants and defendants in proceedings conducted in the United States and abroad, including proceedings conducted under the auspices of the AAA, ICC and arbitrations utilizing the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. He has represented foreign states, state-owned entities, and intergovernmental organizations as well as publicly and privately held companies located in the United States and abroad. He also has had extensive experience in a full range of commercial, securities and business-related litigation throughout the United States, at both the trial and appellate levels.

Mr. Pizzurro is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York and the District of Columbia, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the Second Circuit, Third Circuit, Fifth Circuit and Ninth Circuit, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of Columbia and the Northern District of California.

Mr. Pizzurro is AV-rated in Martindale-Hubbell.

Education

• J.D., magna cum laude, Boston College Law School, 1976
  - Order of the Coif
  - Boston College Law Review, member and contributing editor
• B.A., Political Science, College of the Holy Cross, 1973