Tamar Lusztig represents plaintiffs and defendants at trial and on appeal in federal and state courts across the country. Tamar is a seasoned trial lawyer with substantial courtroom experience, representing her clients in a wide variety of matters regarding intellectual property, antitrust, contracts, and other high-stakes, complex cases.
Tamar has amassed an impressive docket of high-profile cases, often facing off – and prevailing – against opponents with substantially more resources than her clients. Tamar’s clients and colleagues look to her for her strategic acumen, judgment, and composure under pressure to help secure victory in bet-the-company cases.
- Tamar has won multiple jury verdicts on behalf of Dutch telecommunications company Koninklijke KPN N.V. (“KPN”):
o A $341 million breach of contract victory against Samsung, in which the jury awarded every penny of the damages model Tamar presented after deliberating for less than three hours.
o A $31.5 million jury victory against Swedish giant Ericsson over patent infringement claims relating to telecommunications networks. Tamar put on KPN’s entire damages case, including directing the examination of KPN’s expert and cross examining Ericsson’s damages expert. The successful verdict concluded a more than five-year dispute between the companies, with the jury awarding KPN the entire damages model outlined by Tamar and her team, plus finding willfulness.
- Tamar represents the City of Baltimore and a certified class of municipalities and other issuers in a $12 billion antitrust dispute against numerous major banks related to their price-fixing of bond rates.
- Tamar represented the California Institute of Technology in pursuing its seminal Wi-Fi patents against Samsung. This case settled on confidential terms shortly before trial.
- Tamar represented NYU in a lawsuit brought by FASORP, a Texas organization that claims the university discriminates against white men in its efforts to foster diversity in its faculty and on the NYU Law Review. Tamar briefed and won her client’s motion to dismiss before the district court, and briefed, argued and won the appeal before the Second Circuit.
- Tamar achieved victory for a research hospital in a confidential AAA arbitration with a major international pharmaceutical company regarding a licensing dispute. Tamar cross examined each fact witness her adversary presented, obtaining testimony the Tribunal relied on heavily in its decision securing Tamar’s client a multi-million-dollar award.
- Tamar successfully prosecuted a patent infringement case against AT&T over pioneering Internet technology invented by Tamar’s client. Tamar briefed, argued, and won multiple motions, including a critical claim construction motion in which the Court adopted all her client’s positions. This case settled on favorable terms.
- Tamar represented a former prisoner in a Section 1983 case arising out of an illegal strip search during her incarceration. Key admissions Tamar obtained in the defendants’ depositions led to a sizeable settlement for her client.
Updated Oct 2024
