Background
Pitt, Harvey Lloyd was born on February 28, 1945 in Brooklyn. Son of Morris Jacob and Sara Pitt.
administrator management consultant
Pitt, Harvey Lloyd was born on February 28, 1945 in Brooklyn. Son of Morris Jacob and Sara Pitt.
Bachelor, City University of New York, 1965. Juris Doctor with honors (University scholar), St. John's University, New York City, 1968. Doctor of Laws (honorary), St. John's University, 2002.
Worked at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson (New York, New New York Also Washington, District of Columbia) specializing in Corporate and Securities Law, Financial Institutions, Administrative Law, Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1969, New New York
1972, United States. Supreme Court. 1980, District of Columbia.
Former Securities and Exchange Commission General Counsel, 1975-1978.
Member, Board of Directors, Cardozo Law School, 1993. Author: with Doctorate. Hardison and K. Shapiro, "Problems of Enforcement in the Multinational Securities Market," 9:3 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Business Law, Summer, 1987. With Doctorate. Miles and T. Ain, The Law of Financial Services, Prentice Hall Law and Business, 1988.
With K. Shapiro: "The Revised Insider Trading Proscriptions Acting of 1988: A Legislative Remedy for a Problem that Persists," American Criminal Law Review, Volume 26, Number.
1, 1988; "The Insider Trading Proscriptions Acting of 1987: A Legislative Initiative for a Sorely Needed Clarification of the Law Against Insider Trading," Alabama Law Review, Volume 39, Number. 2, Winter, 1988; with K. Shapiro, "Securities Regulation Enforcement: A Look Ahead at the Next Decade," Yale Journal on Regulation, Volume 7:1, Winter, 1990.
"On the Precipice: A Reexamination of Directors" Fiduciary Duties in the Context of Hostile Acquisitions," Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, 1990. With K. Groskaufmanis, "Minimizing Corporate Civil and Criminal Liability: A Second Look at Corporate Codes of Conduct," 78 Georgetown Law Journal 1559 (June 1990).
With K. Groskaufmanis, "Mischief Afoot: The Need for Incentives to Control Corporate Criminal Conduct," 71 Boston University Law Review, 447 (1991).
With David B. Hardison. "Games Without Frontiers: Trends in the International Response to Insider Trading," Law and Contemporary Problems, Volume 55, August 1992. With Karl Groskaufmanis, "When Bad Things Happen to Good Companies: A Crisis Management Primer," Cardozo Law Review, 1994.
Special Counsel, Office of the General Counsel, 1971-1972.
Chief Counsel, Division of Market Regulation, 1972-1973. Executive Assistant to Chairman, 1973-1975, Securities and Exchange Commission.
Adjunct Professor: George Washington University National Law Center, 1974-1982. Georgetown University Law Center, 1976-1984.
Visiting Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Spring, 1983.
Thomas O"Boyle Distinguished Visiting Practitioner, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Spring, 1984. Member, Advisory Board: Southwestern Legal Foundation Securities Institute, 1975-1986. University of California at San Diego, Securities Regulation Institute, 1975.
Company-Chairman, Practicing Law Institute, Annual Securities Regulation Institute, 1980-1993.
Chairman, United States Senate Ad-Hoc Committee of Lawyers Drafting Insider Trading Legislation, 1987-1988. Recipient, Learned Hand Award, March 1988 (Institute of Human Relations).
Chairman, Fried Frank, District of Columbia Corporate Department, 1985-1991. Company-Chairman, Fried, Frank Washington Coordinating Committee, 1987-1993.
Appointed and served as a Public Member of the Administrative Conference, 1986-1988.
Member, New York Stock Exchange Legal Advisory Committee, 1992-1995. Member, Commercial Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association. Member: Federal (Member, Executive Council, Securities Law Committee, 1972) and American (Member, Federal Securities Law, State Securities Regulation and Professional Responsibility Committees, 1969.
Chairman, Subcommittee on Securities and Exchange Commission Practice and Enforcement Matters, 1984-1992.
Chairman, 1983-1987 and Company-Chairman, 1987-1988, Subcommittee on State Regulation of Tender Offers. Company-Chairman, Task Force on Joint and Federal Rule 10b-5 Liability, Business Law Section) Bar Associations.
American Law Institute (Advisor, Corporate Governance Project, 1981). (Also at Washington, District of Columbia Office).
Vice president Glen Haven Civic Association, Silver Spring, Maryland., 1972-1973, president, 1974. Member American Bar Association (past chairman subcommittee Securities and Exchange Commission practice and enforcement, past co-chairman subcommittee state takeover laws), Federal Bar Association (Outstanding Young Lawyer award 1975), Administrative Conference United States, American Law Institute (project advisor on restatement law on corporation governance since 1981), Eldwick Homes Association (secretary board directors), Delta Sigma Rho, Tau Kappa Alpha, Phi Delta Phi.
Married Saree Ruffin, January 7, 1984. Children: Robert Garrett, Sara Dillard. Children from previous marriage: Emily Laura, Jonathan Bradley.