Arthur Norman Norman Field

Background

Field, Arthur Norman was born on September 28, 1935 in New York City. Son of Harry and Rose (Lemberg) Field.

Education

College of the City of New York (Bachelor of Business Administration, 1955). Harvard University (Bachelor of Laws, 1958).

Career

Worked at Shearman & Sterling (New York, NY) specializing in General Practice. Admitted to the bar, 1959, New York. Shearman & Sterling, founded in 1873, has more than 600 lawyers in 15 offices throughout the world.

The firm's practice encompasses most major areas of business law, including: Antitrust and Trade Regulation. Banking; Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization. Compensation and Benefits.

Environmental; Finance (including Corporate Finance, Domestic Private Finance, Financial Institutions, International Private Finance and Project Finance). Individual Clients, Trusts and Estates. Insurance; International Trade and Government Relations.

Litigation and Arbitration. Mergers and Acquisitions. Oil and Gas; Privatizations.

Real Estate; and Tax. The Firm is also engaged in the practice of French, German and Hungarian law through its offices in France, Germany and Hungary.

Achievements

• Bar: New York 1959, Florida 1975.

Works

• book

  • Legal Opinions in Business Transactions (PLI's Corporate and Securities Law Library)

    (Providing the guidance that law schools and most law firm...)

  • Legal opinions in corporate transactions (Business law monographs)

Membership

Chairman, board directors Community Action Legal Services, 1972-1977 (chair 78-79). Board directors Brookdale Foundation, since 1983, Wave Hill Incorporated, New York York City, 1968-1980, Washington Square Legal Services, 1979-1995, Historic House Trust New York, since 2000. Trustee Ramapo Trust, 1983.

Board directors Preservation League New York, 2003-2009. Member advisory board Northeast Business Law Center. Fellow American Bar Foundation, New York Bar Foundation, New York County Lawyers Association (president 1990-1992, department disciplinary committee 1st department, 2002-2008).

Member American Bar Association (house of deals 1990-1992, chair business section opinion committee, 2002-2004, working group legal opinions, since 2007, member business section council since 2004), New York State Bar Association (vice president 1992-1997), Association Bar City New York, American Law Institute, Association of Arbitrators, New York City, (director 1998-2002).

Connections

Married Doris Helen Rabbiner, September 1, 1957. Children: Michael, Karen.

Father:

Harry Field

Mother:

Rose (Lemberg) Field

Spouse:

Doris Helen Rabbiner

child:

Karen Field

child:

Michael Field