James Fuchs has litigated in commercial, employment discrimination, libel, and insurance actions. He has counseled other attorneys on ethical issues both as a volunteer for the New York Ethics Hot Line and as a CLE lecturer at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is presently a member of the Association's Professional Responsiblity Committee and is a past member of the Association's Professional and Judicial Ethics Committee and Professional Disciplinary Committee. He recently chaired a subcommittee that drafted an amicus brief for the Association concerning the disqualification of a law firm, and he has had both trial and appellate experience in the New York state courts. He has also assisted at trial in New York Federal courts.
Mr. Fuchs received his J.D. degree from Case Western University School of Law in 1995, where he was a contributing editor of the law review, and he received his LL.M. in International Law from New York University School of Law in 2003. He received his Ph.D. in European History from the University of Chicago in 1983, his M.A. in European History, with Honors, from the University of Chicago in 1977, and his A.B. in American History from the University of Chicago in 1976. He has been a fellow at Yale University, the John Carter Brown Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His musical review, "Kal v'Homer," was peformed at the Jerusalem Plaza (now the Sheraton). He has run two New York marathons. He speaks Italian, French, and Hebrew.
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