EXPERIENCE

Of Counsel to the Litigation Department, Steven B. Rosenfeld has practiced in a variety of areas, with emphasis on securities, insurance and reinsurance, and complex trust and estate disputes. He has represented defendants in SEC investigations and securities fraud class actions in New York and elsewhere around the country, represented lenders in accountants' liability cases and lender liability claims and represented both ceding companies and reinsurers in reinsurance arbitrations and litigations. In 2004, he successfully defended a major venture capital client in a three-month jury trial in California.

Mr. Rosenfeld's active pro bono practice has ranged from Legal Aid cases, to criminal appeals, to a Texas death penalty case. He currently volunteers two days a week as a Legal Aid lawyer in Manhattan Family Court, representing children in abuse and neglect cases. From June 2002 to December 2012, Mr. Rosenfeld served as chair of the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board. From October 2003 to April 2014, he served as chair of the Board of Visitors of City University of New York (CUNY) Law School. He currently serves as a Director of the CUNY School of Law Foundation and serves on the Advisory Board for CUNY Law School's Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice. In recognition of his pro bono accomplishments throughout his career, his service to CUNY Law School, and his role in the establishment of the Sorensen Center, he was awarded an Honorary J.D. degree by CUNY Law School in May 2015. He has taught a seminar in Government Ethics at CUNY Law School in the Spring 2009 and 2010 semesters.

Mr. Rosenfeld served as law clerk to the Honorable Charles M. Metzner of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and as deputy general counsel of the New York State Special Commission on Attica. He is a past member of the Executive Committee and past vice president of the association of The Bar of the City of New York. He also is an honorary overseas member of London's Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR), a frequent panelist at its conferences, and the author of the United States litigation chapter of The Encyclopedia of International Commercial Litigation published in London in 1991. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society, and served as its president from 1989 to 1991, and was a member of the Board of the New York Theatre Workshop from 1997 to 2008. As a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School, he has taught in the Profession of Law and Trial Practice courses.