Mr. Bschorr is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a former Chair of the 60,000-member Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association. He is listed in such publications as The International Who’s Who of Commercial Litigation Lawyers (2006), New York "Super Lawyers“ (2006, 2007, 2008), Guide to the World’s Leading Litigation Lawyers (2005), Guide to Leading U.S. Litigation Lawyers (2005), and many others. He is an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review, and Yale College. He formerly was Chair of the Litigation Department at White & Case LLP and a senior litigation partner at Dewey Ballantine LLP and Reed Smith LLP. His areas of practice include general commercial litigation and arbitration, including securities class and derivative actions, RICO, banking, lender liability, fiduciary, business torts, insurance coverage, professional malpractice, and foreign sovereign immunity issues. Some representative representations:

Mr. Bschorr has served as lead counsel for a major insurance company in coverage disputes involving asbestos under general comprehensive liability policies pending in California, Illinois and Texas, as well as disputes involving director and officer coverage, and in various bad faith or extra-contractual claims. He also assisted another major insurance company on reinsurance issues relative to allocation of counsel fees in coverage disputes. He served as lead counsel for an international commodities house in litigations in New York and London involving aluminum futures contracts on the London Metals Exchange. He served as lead counsel in an ICC arbitration sited in Geneva representing a Japanese high-technology company, and in a litigation involving alleged errors and omissions by a prominent market research firm. He has represented a major English merchant bank in litigation with Venezuelan banking interests over the propriety of various deferred purchase agreements. He has also represented a number of law and accounting firms in defense of claims for professional malpractice. He co-headed a team on behalf of a health insurer that obtained the first jury verdict against the tobacco industry by a third party payer.

For many years, he represented a major European bank in connection with various disputes and litigations relating to discovery and access in customer information concerning alleged insider trading, money laundering and related activities. He has particular knowledge in the intricacies of foreign secrecy and blocking statutes, and the principles of international comity governing requests for discovery of foreign-sited material by U.S. courts. His work in the insider trading area has frequently related to individual foreign clients who have become involved in claims by the Securities and Exchange Commission, that the client was trading as a tippee on information gained from an allegedly improper source. Most of these cases were successfully resolved at the investigation stage and did not involve publicly filed litigation.

Mr. Bschorr has represented a number of executors and other fiduciaries, as well as beneficiaries in various probate matters before the New York Surrogate’s Court. These cases have frequently involved claims of undue influence and overreaching, as well as incompetency of the testator.