Harvey B Silikovitz

Associate, New York

Harvey B Silikovitz

Associate, New York

Harvey B Silikovitz is an associate at Cohen & Gresser. Mr. Silikovitz is an experienced litigator with a focus on securities litigation and arbitration and other complex commercial and white collar criminal defense matters. He has lectured to other attorneys on such issues as professional responsibility and class actions.

Mr. Silikovitz is a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, where he served on the Editorial Board of the American Criminal Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University, and while studying there, competed in the World Debating Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.

Harvey B Silikovitz is an associate at Cohen & Gresser. Mr. Silikovitz is an experienced litigator with a focus on securities litigation and arbitration…

Education

Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.,cum laude, 1995); Johns Hopkins University (B.A., 1990)

Bar Admissions

New York State; U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Activities and Affiliations

Member, New York City Bar Association

C&G achieved a Second Circuit victory for our client, Fidelity Brokerage Services, in a contract dispute involving a transfer of assets from a family partnership’s Fidelity brokerage account. The Second Circuit affirmed the District Court’s grant of summary judgment to Fidelity and held that Fidelity was not liable to the partnership for allowing one of the partnership’s members to transfer assets out of the partnership’s Fidelity account.

Who bears the cost of a lost or stolen ring after a broken engagement?

Published by Bloomberg BNA, the treatise covers all aspects of the FINRA arbitration process, including prehearing matters, motion practice, hearings, and awards, and also provides a detailed guide to FINRA investigations and enforcement actions.

This fifth article in a series exploring trends in class action law examines the ultimate meaning of Comcast as applied to products class actions.  It concludes that the Supreme Court may simply be waiting for more circuit courts to weigh in on the meaning of Comcast before issuing a clarifying decision.

This course provided an overview of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct ("RPC") for attorneys, promulgated in April 2009. It focused on four key areas of change from the Code of Professional Responsibility that the RPC superseded. The course addressed cutting-edge ethical issues, including problems that arise in the areas of e-discovery, electronic files, and the Internet.

This New York City Bar Association CLE course provided an overview of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct ("RPC") for attorneys, promulgated in April 2009. It focused on four key areas of change from the Code of Professional Responsibility that the RPC superseded.