| Biography:
Larry Weinstein is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department of Proskauer Rose LLP in New York City. His practice is devoted to intellectual property litigation, and other complex litigations including sports cases, art cases and general commercial disputes.
Larry is one of the deans of the false advertising bar, and serves as Co-Chair of Proskauer's Trademark and False Advertising Practice Group. He is recognized as one of the leading false advertising litigators in the United States by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers of America, and Super Lawyers.
For nearly 20 years, Larry has been the lead trial lawyer and counselor for false advertising and trademark matters for major U.S. consumer products companies, and has won numerous Lanham Act false advertising and trademark infringement trials in the federal courts. Larry is also recognized as having significant experience in consumer class action false advertising litigation and regularly serves as lead counsel in NAD and NARB proceedings.
Larry has litigated and won a wide range of high profile cases for clients in other areas of practice, including: the famous Napster copyright infringement case, in which he was the senior Proskauer partner representing the major record companies; the Mike Tyson "ear-biting" class action litigation, in which he secured the dismissal of a class action suit brought against Tyson by a class of ticket holders and pay-per-view subscribers to the infamous Tyson-Holyfield championship fight; Norton Co. v. Hickory, a Massachusetts trade secret jury case in which Larry’s client, a defendant dying of cancer, was exonerated on all counts; and the Single Screw Compressor trial, in which Larry and his team obtained one of the most far-reaching injunctions ever issued in a trade secret case.
Larry received B.A. and M.A. degrees from The Johns Hopkins University in 1974 and 1975, and his J.D. degree in 1978 from NYU Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Law Review, Order of the Coif, and a John Norton Pomeroy Scholar. He served as law clerk to the Honorable James Hunter III, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1978-79.
Larry is a member of the New York Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York.
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