Thomas H. Leeis Of Counsel, resident in Hughes Hubbard’s New York office. He is also the Leitner Family Professor of International Law at Fordham University School of Law and Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia and New York University Law Schools. He has litigated petitions, appeals and dispositive motions in the U.S. Supreme Court, other federal courts, and New York state courts; advised U.S. and other non-Korean companies on doing business and investing in Korea; and advised foreign governments on U.S. and international law. He also has expertise and experience in international commercial and investor-state arbitration and litigation and regulation relating to social-media data protection and cyberlaw. From 1991 to 1995, he served as a U.S. naval signals-intelligence officer deployed at sea in the Western Pacific and Indian Oceans, and ashore in Korea and Japan and with the National Security Agency (NSA).
Clerkships
Law clerk to Associate Justice David Souter, Supreme Court of the United States, 2001 – 2002
Law clerk to Chief Judge Michael Boudin, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit, 2000 – 2001
Professional Activities
Member, American Law Institute
Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Panel of Conciliators, International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
Court Admissions
United States Supreme Court, 2005
United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, 2001
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 2005
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2006
Highlighted Matters
Petition for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the applicability of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 to social-media data
Pro bono representation of tenants in New York state courts
