McElroy Deutsch promotes Deutsch to partner

About her

Lydia Deutsch has been promoted to partner in the New York, N.Y., office of McElroy Deutsch. Deutsch is a member of the firm’s Litigation and Insurance Services group. She has extensive commercial and insurance litigation experience in a variety of areas, including complex contract disputes and multi-million-dollar arbitrations. Deutsch also has experience in securities law, including SEC matters and shareholder disputes, false advertising, white collar, and bankruptcy-related litigation.

Deutsch commits significant time to pro bono matters, including veterans’ health care coverage, legal issues, asylum applications and immigration law issues, animal rights matters, and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and New York Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests.

Deutsch has given many CLE presentations covering case law developments, prior cases she worked on, and general developments in various fields.

Deutsch served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Claire Cecchi of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Prior to law school, she worked as a paralegal at McElroy Deutsch, as an analyst at Morgan Stanley, and during her undergraduate years interned for New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg on Capitol Hill.

About the company

McElroy Deutsch has approximately 175 attorneys who work from 13 offices in nine states. The firm provides individuals, companies, and public and private organizations with a broad range of legal services, across several industries and professional disciplines.