Richard A. Rothman has had a groundbreaking career including wins across the country in trials, arbitrations and investigations dealing with some of the seminal business topics of the last 40 years—from airline takeover battles to the World Trade Center bombing and the fall of Lehman Brothers, to name a few.

Rich served as lead counsel for American Airlines, Thompson Reuters, GE, Lehman Brothers, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Sanofi Aventis, and Sothebys in high-stakes disputes that made headlines. Rich has also won every appeal he argued in the D.C., Second, Third, Seventh, Eighth and Tenth Circuits and the N.Y. Court of Appeals. At the same time, he has been a leader in the public service arena for decades, and now serves as Special Pro Bono Counsel at Weil. He also played a leadership role at Weil, Gotshal & Manges—including as co-head of the firm’s Complex Commercial Litigation Department, a member of the Management Committee, and chair of the firm’s Pro Bono and Governance Committees.