Joshua M. Rubin
Associate

  • (212) 682-3025 x. 121

Joshua M. Rubin, represents a broad spectrum of domestic and foreign clients in complex class actions including securities class actions and shareholder derivative actions in federal and state courts.

Mr. Rubin has played an important role in the recovery of millions of dollars for damaged investors, and derivatively on behalf of publicly traded companies.  These actions include the successful class prosecution on behalf of investors of Converium Holding AG (Sclater-Booth v. SCOR, S.A., 07 cv 3476 (GEL)) in the Southern District of New York and Keyspan Corp. (In re Keyspan Corporation Securities Litigation, 01 cv 5852 (ARR)) in the Eastern District of New York.  Additionally, he has had a significant role in successfully prosecuting derivative actions on behalf of Fortune 500 companies, including recently on behalf of Hewlett-Packard Company (In re Hewlett-Packard Company Derivative Litigation, No. 2428-N) in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

Mr. Rubin has also litigated shareholder actions in connection with mergers and acquisitions and successfully represented shareholders in a recent action seeking to enforce the application of U.S. tender offer rules to a foreign corporation.

Mr. Rubin oversees the Firm’s various systems used to monitor the stock portfolios of its institutional clients, as well as the maintenance of the firm’s document retrieval database and Electronic Discovery platforms.

Mr. Rubin also devotes time to pro bono work.  While in law school, he represented indigents in New York County Criminal Court and also assisted faculty on major litigation projects, including homicide, federal criminal and DNA finger-printing cases.  He also volunteered as an arbitrator for the New York State Lemon Law Arbitration Program and spends time as a Big Brother mentor.

  • Education

  • J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 2005 (Specialty training in civil and criminal litigation)

  • Professional Experience

  • Legal Intern to the Honorable Michael Dolinger, Magistrate Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (2004)

  • Admissions

  • State of New York
  • Southern District of New York
  • Eastern District of New York