Ross Lipman advises clients regarding regulatory matters and compliance, litigation strategy, and depositions and trial testimony. Mr. Lipman has experience in commercial law, contract disputes, complex multi-party actions, intellectual property, patent litigation, and trademark litigation. He is also skilled in tort law and product liability including class actions and mass torts in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and other industries. Mr. Lipman has also practiced before environmental agencies at the federal, state, and local level. He has managed internal investigations and defended government investigations.
Mr. Lipman received his B.A., cum laude from Harvard College and earned his J.D. at Duke University School of Law where he was also the Managing Editor of Duke Law Journal and a member of the Moot Court Board. Mr. Lipman has volunteered with Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and Immigration Equality.
Representative Experience
- Managing nationwide and international eDiscovery in international pharmaceutical litigation
- Defense of mass tort litigation (including numerous trials) in Florida state and federal courts
- Defense of patent infringement action
- Defense of trademark infringement litigation (2016 trial in Southern District of New York)
- Providing advice and training to clients regarding legal compliance and litigation avoidance
- Defense of government investigations and managing internal investigations
- Managing overseas data collection and transfer projects for EU client, including custodial interviews; extraction of records from proprietary databases; and data filtering
- Coordinating data collections and creation of hosted databases for review and production
- Developing and implementing legal hold directives for client business units
- Creating procedures for access by counsel to client source files via proprietary data systems and applications
- Advising clients with regard to international eDiscovery, including foreign blocking statutes, foreign privacy laws, and discoverability of contents of client data systems
- Representing foreign financial institution in international litigation involving termination of derivative securities agreements caused by imposition of foreign currency controls by central bank of Malaysia
- Supervising team of lawyers in Hughes Hubbard’s New York and Paris offices in defense of foreign investment bank in securities litigation by U.S. bondholders alleging that bank aided and abetted violations of U.S. securities laws through bond underwriting and related financial transactions
- Defense of financial institution opposing temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction, based on debt restructuring and letter of credit
- Defense of manufacturing clients and property owners in environmental litigation and investigations
- Representing client in breach-of-contract and related litigation arising from joint venture to sell electric generating equipment in South America (oral arguments, motion practice, taking and defending depositions)
- Trial of fraudulent transfer litigation brought by U.S. Justice Department and other plaintiffs involving purchase of privately-held company; claims involved valuation of purchased business assets, and allocation of purchase price
- Representing 50% shareholder of privately held company in litigation involving corporate deadlock and allegations of fraud
Publications/Presentations
- “Playing to Win: Appellate Preservation for Trial Lawyers in Federal Court” (National Institute for Trial Advocacy, May 16, 2017) (co-authored with Robb W. Patryk and Jonathan Misk)
- Presentation on defense of pharmaceutical litigation at ACI Products Liability Boot Camp for the Life Sciences Industry (New York, July 2010)
- April 6, 2009 article “eDiscovery in the Months Ahead” (eDiscovery Trends in 2009) (published in Law360) (co-authored with Seth D. Rothman)
- Presentation on discovery limitations in international litigation at ACI Life Sciences Conference on Document Management, eDiscovery and Litigation Readiness (New York, April 2008)
- Presentations on eDiscovery amendments to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure at seminars sponsored by Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP (October 2006)
- “Tax Incentives for Brownfield Cleanups,” New York Law Journal, Oct. 15, 1996 (co¬authored with Susan M. Campbell and Daisy D. Tsui)
- Presentations on environmental litigation at chemical industry seminar (Scottsdale, Arizona, February 1996)
- Chairman of seminar on International Trade and the Environment, sponsored by Committee on International Environmental Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (March 1995)
- Lloyd’s Environmental Law International (1992-93) (Lloyd’s of London Press) Monthly contributor of articles addressing environmental litigation
- “Exemptions from CERCLA Liability for Releases of Asbestos,” 23 Environment Reporter 1119 (July 31, 1992) (Bureau of National Affairs) (co-authored with Steven A. Weisfeld and Kenneth Dreifach)
- “Toxic Chemicals and Health Risk Assessments in Regulation and Litigation,” The Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (May 1989) (co-authored with other members of a subcommittee of the Association’s Environmental Law Committee)
- Note, “Income Tax Treatment of Shifts in Partnership Profit and Loss Interests,” 1984 Duke Law Journal 805
Education
- Duke University School of Law, J.D.
Managing Editor, Duke Law Journal; Moot Court Board - Harvard College, B.A., cum laude
Bar Admissions
- California
- Florida
- New York
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
