John S. Siffert

A founding partner of LSW, John Siffert has built a widely respected and broad-ranging litigation practice. John successfully tried numerous civil and criminal cases to verdict, prevailed in commercial arbitrations, and argued before state and federal appellate courts.

Johns matters have involved claims of securities fraud, antitrust violations, professional misconduct, art law, intellectual property, cybercrimes, and FCPA violations. He has represented corporations, boards, audit and special committees, and law firms, as well as individual directors, senior officers, and law partners.

John has been involved in alternative dispute resolution throughout his practiceboth on behalf of his own clients, and as a court-appointed or privately engaged arbitrator, mediator, and special master. John is an FCIArb, a Distinguished CPR Neutral, and is on the AAA Rosters of Commercial Arbitrators and Mediators. John is also a member of the Second Circuit and Southern District of New York Pro Bono Mediation Panels.

John has served as Regent and chair of numerous ACTL committees.

John has been on the faculty at NYU School of Law for more than 40 years and is the co-author of Sand, Modern Federal Jury Instructions. Chief Justice Roberts appointed John to the Advisory Committee on Federal Criminal Rules from 2012-2018, and he received the Second Circuit American Inns of Court Professionalism Award in 2009.

John was an Assistant U.S. attorney in the SDNY and served as a law clerk to Hon. Murray I. Gurfien. He was graduated from Columbia Law School and Amherst College.