Norman C. Kleinberg

Areas of Concentration

• Commercial Litigation
• Mass Tort
• Complex Litigation
• First Chair Litigator with results in diverse areas of litigation

  Awards and Recognitions

• Recognized in New York Super Lawyers, 2008-2010.
• Recognized in Super Lawyers Business Edition, 2011.
• Recognized in Benchmark Litigation as a local litigation star within New York with specialties including Antitrust, Commercial, Intellectual Property and Securities Litigation, 2010.
• Ranked by Chambers USA as one of the Leading Product Liability Lawyers, 2006–2010
• Selected as one of world’s leading Life Science lawyers by The International Who’s Who of Life Sciences Lawyers, 2008-2010.
• Selected as one of world’s leading Product Liability Defense Lawyers by The International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers, 2009-2010.
• Named in Euromoney’s Guide to World’s Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007.
• Named in Euromoney’s Guide to World’s Leading Litigation Lawyers, 2003, 2007. 

Court Admissions

• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Southern District of New York
• Eastern District of New York
• Northern District of California
• Eastern District of Wisconsin
• United States Tax Court

Professional Activities

• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; Member, Committee on Judiciary; Chairman, Sub-Committee on Federal Judicial Center; Downstate New York Committee.
• Mediation – Member of Center for Public Resources (“CPR”) Regional Panel of Distinguished Neutrals – completed mediation training program sponsored by CPR June 2001 – Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
• Arbitrator, Civil Court of the State of New York; United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, American Arbitration Association; Party-appointed arbitrator in London-based arbitration involving two insurers.
• Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Committee on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction (1977-1980), Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics (1983-1986), Committee on Professional Responsibility (1987-1988), Committee on The Judiciary (1996-1999); Council on Judicial Administration (1996-1999); American Bar Association, Antitrust Section, Torts and Insurance Section; New York State Bar Association; Federal Bar Council, Chairman of Second Circuit Oral History Project; International Bar Association, Committee on Insurance; United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Committee on History and Commemorative Events (1995-2001).
• Firm representative – Center for Public Resources (CPR).
• Law Clerk, The Honorable Charles M. Metzner, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (1972-1974).