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John Siegal

John Siegal is an accomplished trial and courtroom advocate in the state and federal courts of New York and across the country. He handles private business disputes and transactions in the financial services, real estate and media industries, as well as matters for clients involving public agencies and controversies. Mr. Siegal serves as Baker Hostetler’s New York Litigation Coordinator with practice management responsibility for approximately 100 attorneys in the firm’s New York City office.

In the financial services and investment industries, Mr. Siegal handles a wide variety of fraud, partnership, securities, trade secrets, and employment matters for investment banks, private equity firms, entrepreneurs, investors and investment professionals. He is lead counsel prosecuting claims on behalf of the trustee for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC against the Madoff family members who held senior positions at the Madoff firm.

In the real estate arena, Mr. Siegal often represents owners, managers, developers, investors and construction firms in partnership disputes, litigations over complex financing and development arrangements and construction, vendor, lender, leasing and co-op and condominium disputes. He has been involved in large scale public development projects and major government franchises, concessions and contracts, including having litigated over approvals for two New York City stadium projects.

In the media industries, Mr. Siegal is often engaged for business, employment and content disputes by publishers, programmers, record companies, investment firms, journalists, public relations firms and media executives. Over the course of his career, he has represented many of the leading networks, publishers, programmers and investors headquartered in Manhattan in litigations arising from contracts, mergers and acquisitions, employment, libel and privacy disputes.

Mr. Siegal frequently handles employment matters, including trying employment cases to juries. He often negotiates executive employment and severance agreements. He serves as co-head of Baker Hostetler’s National Noncompete and Trade Secrets Practice Group and chaired the Practicing Law Institute’s program on “Protecting Corporate Intellectual Assets: Enforcing Restrictive Covenants in the Employment Context.”

Mr. Siegal began his career on Capitol Hill as an aide to then Congressman Charles E. Schumer. In the early 1990s, he served as Chief Speechwriter to Mayor David N. Dinkins. He has advised and counseled numerous elected officials and candidates, often on campaign finance and government ethics matters. He is on the Boards of Directors of the Fund for Modern Courts and the Center for an Urban Future.