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Edward M. Spiro is a civil litigator with many years of experience in handling complex commercial litigation at the trial and appellate level in state and federal courts, and in arbitrations, for individual and corporate clients. He has represented clients in diverse matters, including a Fortune 50 company, as plaintiff, in a series of civil antitrust cases arising from a bid-rigging scheme; a major outdoor advertising company in constitutional, contract, and other matters; a former managing director of J.P. Morgan in litigation arising from the Sumitomo copper scandal; and the rock group, Guns N’ Roses, in a copyright and unfair competition action. In addition to prosecuting and defending more traditional contract and civil tort cases, Mr. Spiro has extensive experience defending civil litigation related to concurrent governmental investigations or prosecutions.

Mr. Spiro received a J.D. cum laude from Boston University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review. In private practice since 1976, he joined Morvillo Abramowitz as a principal in 1994.

Mr. Spiro is the co-author of Civil Practice in the Southern District of New York, 2d Ed. (Thomson West 2007), a frequently cited two-volume treatise updated annually, and the author of a regular New York Law Journal column on civil practice in the Southern District of New York. He is also a co-author of the New York Law Journal articles “Recovery for Commercial Bribery” (December 4, 2000), “When Courts Order Money Brought Home” (May 23, 1994), and “Kovel Experts Cloaked by Attorney-Client Privilege” (February 22, 1994). He lectures on professional ethics for the Practicing Law Institute and elsewhere.

In August 2007, Mr. Spiro completed his term as Chair of the Committee on Professional Discipline of the New York City Bar Association. He is a member of the New York County Lawyers’ Association and former chair of its Committee on Professional Discipline. He is also a member of the American Bar Association (Litigation and Criminal Justice Sections), the New York State Bar Association (Commercial and Federal Litigation Section), and the Federal Bar Council.

He is admitted in New York and to practice before the United States Tax Court, the Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuits, and the District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of New York.