Thomas Field offers business clients a unique combination of expertise and success in litigated and transactional matters. In more than 40 years, he achieved success in hundreds of court and arbitration matters, and negotiations of disputes for prominent clients, many of them well-known multinational corporations, involving an array of diverse matters, including contract disputes, product liability, customs, tort liability in business context, antitrust violations, alleged false advertising, corporate proxy contest and taxes, among others. He also successfully represented clients before US, state, and municipal agencies, achieving in some of them actions never before taken by the government agency.

For the past 25 years Mr. Field also successfully provided litigation strategy for multinational corporations in litigation involving patent infrigement, and patent licenses.

From 1952-1953, Mr. Field was a Law Clerk to the Hon. William Bondy, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York.

REPORTED CASES

In each instance, representing the prevailing party (pp): IBM Credit Financing Corp. v. Mazda Motor Manuf. (USA) Corp., (pp) 92 N.Y. 2d 989 (1998), affirming 245 A.D. 2d 78 (1st Dept. 1997), 665 N.Y.S. 2d 645, affirming 170 Misc. 2d 15 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co. 1996); Chudasama v. Mazda MotorCorp. (pp) 123 F.3d 1353 (11th Cir. 1997); I.C.C. Metals (pp) v. Municipal Warehouse Co., 50 N.Y. 2d 657 (1980); Delaware Watch Co. (pp) v. United States, 64 Cust. Ct. 659, 311 F. Supp. 1320 (1970); Delaware Watch Co. (pp) v. United States, 60 Cust. Ct. 747 (1968); Sarlie v. E.L. Bruce Co., (pp) 265 F. Supp. 371 (S.D.N.Y. 1967); Roboz (pp) v. Kennedy, (US Attorney General), 219 F. Supp. 892 (D.C. Dist. 1963); E.L. Bruce Co. (pp) v. Sarlie, N.Y.L.J. 1/23/69, p. 18, col. 4; Aaronson v. McCormick President of the American Stock Exchange, 178 N.Y.S. 2d (1958) (for intervenor, E.M. Gilbert (pp)); Estate of Jacob Tim, 159 N.Y.S. 2d 520 (Surr. Ct. N.Y. Co. 1956) (for prevailing distributees). Among these matters were high profile cases, some establishing new law.

Memberships

Committee on Arbitration, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1970-1973; New York State Bar Association; American Bar Association

Admitted to Practice

New York, 1953

Education

J.D., Cornell Law School, 1952