Harvey M. Stone

Harvey M. Stone is a founder and the Managing Partner of the Firm. Mr. Stone received a B.A. from Harvard College in 1966 (cum laude, in Classics and English) and an LL.B. from the University of Virginia in 1972.  From 1972 to 1976, as an attorney with the United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Appellate Section, Washington, D.C., he briefed and argued cases in the various federal courts of appeals and the United States Supreme Court.  His designation by the Solicitor General to argue for the United States in Middendorf v. Henry, 425 U.S. 25 (1975), marked the first time in a number of years that an attorney with the Justice Department's Criminal Division had been asked to argue before the Supreme Court.  Mr. Stone then worked in the General Counsel's Office of the National Labor Relations Board, Enforcement/Litigation Division, Washington, D.C., from 1976 until 1977, when he was appointed Chief of the Appeals Division, United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.  In that capacity, he supervised all of that Office's appellate litigation, both civil and criminal, and briefed and argued major cases in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  In March 1981, Mr. Stone left the United States Attorney's Office to found the Firm with Peter Schlam.  Mr. Stone focuses on complex commercial litigation, white-collar criminal defense and appeals.  He is a member of the New York and Louisiana Bars, as well as the Bars of a number of Federal courts in New York and around the country.