An accomplished trial lawyer and Senior Partner with the Firm, Edward Labaton has devoted his 50 years of practice to representing a full range of clients in class action and complex litigation matters in state and federal court. Mr. Labaton has played a lead role as plaintiffs’ class counsel in a number of successfully prosecuted high profile cases, involving companies such as PepsiCo, Dun & Bradstreet, Financial Corporation of America, ZZZZ Best, Revlon, GAF Co., American Brands, Petro Lewis and Jim Walter, as well as several Big Eight (now Four) accounting firms. He has also argued appeals in state and federal courts, achieving results with important precedential value.

Mr. Labaton has been President of the Institute for Law and Economic Policy since its founding in 1996. The Institute co-sponsors at least one annual symposium with a major law school dealing with issues relating to the civil justice system.  In 2010 he was appointed to the newly formed Advisory Board of George Washington University's Center for Law, Economics, & Finance (C-LEAF), a think tank within the Law School, for the study and debate of major issues in economic and financial law confronting the United States and the globe. Mr. Labaton is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance of the University of Delaware, a Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under Law, a member of the American Law Institute, and a life member of the ABA Foundation.  In addition, he has served on the Executive Committee and has been an officer of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund since its inception in 1996.

Mr. Labaton is the past Chairman of the Federal Courts Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association, and was a member of the Board of Directors of that organization.  He is an active member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he was Chair of the Senior Lawyers’ Committee and served on its Task Force on the Role of Lawyers in Corporate Governance.  He has also served on its Federal Courts, Federal Legislation, Securities Regulation, International Human Rights and Corporation Law Committees. He also served as Chair of the Legal Referral Service Committee, a joint committee of the New York County Lawyers’ Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He has been an active member of the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Council and the New York State Bar Association, where he has served as a member of the House of Delegates.

For more than 30 years, he has lectured in the areas of federal civil litigation, securities litigation and corporate governance.