LOUIS A. RUSSO

Lou Russo of Lurie | Strupinsky, LLP is an accomplished business lawyer, arbitrator, professor and author with more than 15 years of legal experience and training from the best and the brightest legal minds at the nation's preeminent AmLaw100 business law firms including Proskauer Rose, Winston & Strawn, and Alston & Bird.

Lou advises and works closely with clients on all legal issues serving as outside general counsel to many. He negotiates and drafts business contracts, helps owners and investors buy and sell businesses and other assets, as well as navigates presuit negotiations, mediation, arbitration of business disputes, and federal and state court litigation of which often include a breach of contract and related allegations of fraud and other tortious conduct. Lou works to resolve business disputes and partnership disagreements before litigation becomes necessary.

Drawing upon his significant experience, Lou Russo also serves as arbitrator in FINRA and American Arbitration Association - Consumer matters and also teaches commercial arbitration as an adjunct law professor of law.

Admitted to practice

• New Jersey, 2007
• New York, 2008
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 2007
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 2008
• District of Columbia, 2010
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
• U.S. District Court for the District of the District of Columbia

Education

• Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, New York
• J.D. - 2007, Honors: magna cum laude, Vice President, Moot Court Board
• Villanova University
• B.A. - 2002, Honors: Dean's List, Major: Political Science, Minor: Biology