Steven Molo, one of the country’s leading courtroom advocates, is a founding partner of the national litigation boutique MoloLamken LLP. He represents corporations, boards, funds, investors, inventors, and individuals in complex business litigation, white collar criminal matters, and IP litigation. His client base is international.
Benchmark Litigation – which named him one of the top 100 Trial Lawyers in America – calls him “revered,” “an outstanding advocate and fearless in court,” who “delivers the goods.” Chambers and Partners calls him “fantastic in the courtroom,” a “fabulous courtroom litigator who lights up the room with his presence,” “very bright, imaginative, and creative in his approach to problems,” and “one of the most talented lawyers in the (New York) city.” He’s one of 34 individuals named to their National Trial Lawyers listing; they say, “he’s amazing in court,” “a very creative trial lawyer with lots of charisma,” who “brings a lot of credibility to a case.” Legal 500 includes Mr. Molo on its elite list of Leading Trial Lawyers and calls him “a force to be reckoned with,” “a rockstar litigator; a great lawyer,” with “terrific knowledge of the courts and the law,” who “really excels in the courtroom.” It says he is “smart, creative, responsive, knowledgeable, and engaging; he has an excellent mix of traits that set him apart from his peers.” For the past fourteen years he has been named to Lawdragon’s list of the 500 Leading Lawyers in America.
Mr. Molo began his career as a prosecutor in Chicago, and then practiced with Winston & Strawn, where he was a senior litigator and member of the firm’s Executive Committee. He spent five years as a litigation partner with the Wall Street firm Shearman & Sterling before founding MoloLamken in October 2009.
He is a solicitor on the Roll of Attorneys of the Law Society of England and Wales. He is also an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.
He is a trustee of the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society, the Federal Bar Foundation, and a past trustee of the American Inns of Court Foundation. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and the American Bar Foundation. He is also a solicitor on the Roll of Attorneys of the Law Society of England and Wales, and an Honorary Bencher of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple.
Updated Sep 2023
