Background
Reitzfeld, Alan D. was born on March 13, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
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Alan D. Reitzfeld
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Syracuse University (Bachelor of Arts, 1973). Hofstra University (Juris Doctor, 1976).
Career
Worked at Holland & Knight Limited Liability Partnership (New York, New York) specializing in General Practice. Admiralty, Administrative, Aviation, Bankruptcy, Commercial, Computer, Corporate, Employment, Environmental, Estates, Finance, Insurance, International, Product Liability, Real Estate, Space, Tax and Trade. Trials, Appeals and Arbitration.
Admitted to the bar, 1977, New York and United States.
District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New New York 1978, United States. Court of International Trade and United States.
Court of Military Appeals. 1979, United States. District Court, Northern and Western Districts of New York and United States.
Court of Appeals, Second and Fourth Circuits.
1980, United States. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit and United States. Supreme Court; 1988, United States.
District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin.
1993, United States. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. 1997, United States. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
Member, 1974-1976, and Research Editor, 1975-1976, Hofstra Law Review.
Director, First Year Legal Research and Advisement Fellows Program, 1975-1976. Author: "Courting Disaster," Computerworld, October 16, 1989. "Liability for Negligent Misrepresentation Claims in Computer Litigation -- The Scope of the Special Relationship under New York Law," 4 Computer Law Association Bulletin 16 (Summer 1989).
Casenote: "Spier v.
Barker," 3 Hofstra Law Review 883 (1975). Company-author: "Software Licensing: Read the Fine Print," Eksport (Denmark), August 7, 1992. "Practice and Procedure in Federal and State Courts," New York Law Journal, February 3, 1986, April 24, 1986.
Selected Speeches: Moderator, "Using Experts: Pointers, Perils and Pitfalls," American Bar Association Program on Aviation Litigation, New York, New York, June 1996.
"Avoiding Litigation and User-Unfriendly Computer Software By Building User Protections Into Software License Agreements" and "Selected Topics in High Technology Litigation," EVD Ministerie Van Economische Zaken Program on United States. Intellectual Property Law, The Hague, Netherlands, June, 1995.
"Creative Use of Class Actions in Aviation Disaster Litigation," American Bar Association Program on Litigation in Aviation, Washington, District of Columbia, October 1994. "Recent Developments in Aviation," American Bar Association Program on Litigation in Aviation, Washington, District of Columbia, October 1991.
"High Technology Litigation," New York State Bar Association Program on Computer Law, New York, New York, February 1991, November 1988 and October 1987.
Associate, Martin, Van de Walle & Sawyer, Great Neck, New York, 1976-1977. Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New New York Nassau County, New York State (Chair, Computer Litigation Subcommittee of Business Law Section"s Computer Law Committee, 1987), American and International (Officer, International Computer and Technology Law Committee) Bar Associations.
Computer Law Association.
Federal Bar Council; Maritime Law Association of the United States. Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens provides comprehensive legal services primarily to clients engaged in international transportation and finance matters.
From its origins 160 years ago in New York, the Firm has grown through the addition of offices in Washington, District of Columbia and San Francisco.
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Member, 1974-1976, and Research Editor, 1975-1976, Hofstra Law Review. Director, First Year Legal Research and Advisement Fellows Program, 1975-1976.
