Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

A partner in the Litigation Department, Susanna M. Buergel has extensive experience handling a broad range of matters, with particular emphasis defending financial institutions and corporations in complex securities and commercial matters in federal and state courts across the country as well as representing financial institutions and other clients before the SEC and federal and state regulatory authorities. Ms. Buergel also has extensive intellectual property experience, counseling and litigating on behalf of clients in copyright, trademark and patent disputes.

Among her current matters, Ms. Buergel is representing Citigroup in its subprime-related litigations and regulatory matters, the civil litigations arising out of the activities of former Salomon Smith Barney research analyst Jack Grubman (in connection with his coverage of WorldCom, Global Crossing and other issuers), and regulatory inquiries arising out of its student loan activities. Ms. Buergel also represents Viking Global Investors LP, a successful hedge fund, in a dispute pending in Delaware Chancery Court and Ericsson in a securities class action pending in the Southern District of New York.

Ms. Buergel served as articles editor of the Columbia Law Review and was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. She is an adjunct lecturer in law at Columbia Law School and currently teaches a course in trial practice.

Areas of Practice

• Litigation

West Practice Categories

Litigation & Appeals

Bar Admissions

• New York

Classes and Seminars

• Adjunct Lecturer in law at Columbia Law School and currently teaches a course in trial practice

Past Employment Positions

• Hon. Fortunato P. Benavides, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, Clerk
• Hon. Alvin K. Hellerstein, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, Clerk

Education

• Columbia Law School, New York, New York, 1999
  J.D.
  Honors: Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
  
  Law Review: Columbia Law Review, Articles Editor
• Columbia University, 1996
  B.A.

Published Works

• Intellectual Property Litigation: Plans Made to Deal With User-Generated Web Content, November 2, 2007
• Intellectual Property Litigation: Restricting Intangible IP Exports: Congress Left as Judge, June 14, 2007
• Intellectual Property Litigation: Cross-Border Disputes: 'Microsoft,' 'Voda,' Others, March 8, 2007
• Intellectual Property Litigation: On Disclosing Patent Positions, Standard-Setting Process, November 30, 2006
• Adverse Inference Rule Better Defined in 'Knorr-Bremse v. Dana', November 17, 2004

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