Lewis Tesser, a founding partner and counsel at the law firm of Tesser, Ryan & Rochman, LLP, has been practicing law in New York City for over thirty years. He focuses his practice in litigation and mediation, representing licensed professionals and professional practices, administrative law, and commercial law. He has extensive experience with professional responsibility and professional liability, representing licensed professionals in both private cases and disciplinary matters.
Mr. Tesser is an authority on legal ethics. As director of the Ethics Institute of the New York County Layers’ Association, he was the editor-in-chief of their commentary of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct, published by Oxford University Press. Mr. Tesser is also the former Chair of the General Practice Section of the New York State Bar Association. Prior to private practice, Mr. Tesser was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York. In that capacity, he represented various agencies of the United States government in litigation in the United States District Court and United States Court of Appeals. Mr. Tesser also served as a Judge Advocate in the United States Army where he prosecuted and defended criminal cases and was the chief legal advisor to the Commanding General of the U.S. Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He also has served as an Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, New York City Civil Court, a Judge for the Environmental Control Board of the City of New York and a lecturer for various Bar Associations and New York area law schools.
Mr. Tesser, who was admitted to practice in 1971, is a 1970 Honors graduate from the National Law Center, George Washington University, a Masters graduate from the Wharton Business school, University of Pennsylvania (1974) and a graduate of the Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers.
Appointments in NYC and White Plains.