Lydia K. Deutsch

LYDIA K. DEUTSCH has extensive commercial and insurance litigation experience in a variety of different areas, including complex contract disputes and multi-million-dollar arbitrations. Lydia also has experience in securities law, including SEC matters and shareholder disputes, false advertising, white collar, and bankruptcy-related litigation.

Lydia commits significant time to pro bono matters, including veterans’ health care coverage legal issues, asylum applications and immigration law issues, an animal rights matter, and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and New York Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests.

Lydia has given many CLE presentations covering case law developments, prior cases she worked on, and general developments in various fields.

Lydia served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Claire C. Cecchi of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Prior to law school, she worked as a paralegal at McElroy Deutsch, as an analyst at Morgan Stanley, and during her undergraduate years interned for New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg on Capitol Hill.

  • Recipient of Marvin Frankel Pro Bono Award (2018, 2019). A description of the standard or methodology on which the accolade is based can be found HERE (No aspect of the advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court).

LYDIA K. DEUTSCH has extensive commercial and insurance litigation experience in a variety of different areas, including complex contract disputes and multi-million-dollar arbitrations. Lydia also has experience in securities law, including SEC matters and shareholder disputes, false advertising, white collar, and bankruptcy-related litigation.

Lydia commits significant time to pro bono matters, including veterans’ health care coverage legal issues, asylum applications and immigration law issues, an animal rights matter, and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and New York Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests.

Lydia has given many CLE presentations covering case law developments, prior cases she worked on, and general developments in various fields.

Lydia served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Claire C. Cecchi of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Prior to law school, she worked as a paralegal at McElroy Deutsch, as an analyst at Morgan Stanley, and during her undergraduate years interned for New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg on Capitol Hill.

  • Recipient of Marvin Frankel Pro Bono Award (2018, 2019). A description of the standard or methodology on which the accolade is based can be found HERE (No aspect of the advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court).

Education

Columbia University School of Law (J.D. 2016)
Bowdoin College (B.A. 2010)

Admissions

State of New York