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Sean F. O'Shea, Partner

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Sean F. O'Shea earned his B.A. at the University of Illinois in 1978 and his J.D. at Northwestern University School of Law in 1981. Mr. O'Shea was a Notes and Comments Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review and received the Adlai Stevenson Award for writing the best appellate brief in the Julius Miner Moot Court Competition. Mr. O'Shea began his career at a large national law firm practicing commercial litigation in Chicago and California before becoming a federal prosecutor in New York.

Mr. O'Shea served as Chief of the Business/Securities Fraud Unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York. During his ten year tenure as a federal prosecutor, Mr. O'Shea tried more than thirty-five jury trials to verdict and appeared as lead appellate counsel for the Department of Justice in dozens of appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Mr. O'Shea is a highly skilled and aggressive trial lawyer in the areas of both civil and criminal litigation. He has tried cases ranging from sophisticated business fraud matters in the criminal context to representing corporations and individuals seeking monetary damages in securities fraud and RICO cases in the commercial context.

Mr. O'Shea has also had consistent successes in representing individuals in securities industry compensation disputes before panels of the National Association of Securities Dealers and the New York Stock Exchange.

 

Michael E. Petrella, Partner

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Michael E. Petrella, was admitted to practice in 1995 in New Jersey and in New York and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts in 2001. Mr. Petrella graduated cum laude from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1994 and received his B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College in 1991. Mr. Petrella was a Contributing Editor of the Case Western Reserve Law Review.

Mr. Petrella specializes in complex commercial litigation. He has successfully litigated numerous business disputes at the trial and appellate levels in both state and federal court. His experience includes securities fraud, intellectual property and civil RICO matters, as well as internal shareholder disputes and leveraged buy-out suits. He has vast experience handling discovery and dispositive motion practice in large, document intensive financial matters. Mr. Petrella also has extensive experience litigating investor and financial industry executive arbitrations before the National Association of Securities Dealers and the New York Stock Exchange.


Associates

Jonathan R. Altschuler

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Jonathan R. Altschuler, was admitted to practice in New York in 2005 and in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1998. Mr. Altschuler graduated magna cum laude from Temple University School of Law in 1998 and received his B.A. from the University of Delaware in 1995. Mr. Altschuler was a staff member of Temple Law Review. Mr. Altschuler served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office during the period 1999-2002.

 

Marc D. Feingold

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Marc D. Feingold, was admitted to practice in New York and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York in 1996. Mr. Feingold received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1994 and received his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 1988.

 

Julie S. O'Shea

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Julie S. O'Shea, was admitted to practice in New York and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York in 1993. Mrs. O'Shea received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1992 and her B.A. from Hamilton College in 1987. Mrs. O'Shea was a Notes and Comments Editor of the Brooklyn Law School Journal of International Law.

 

Tom Stein

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Tom Stein, was admitted to practice in New York in 2000 and California in 2001. Mr. Stein graduated from New York University School of Law in 1999 and clerked for the Honorable Ann Aldrich, United States District Judge in the Northern District of Ohio. Before joining O’Shea Partners LLP, Mr. Stein was associated with a prominent national law firm in New York City.

Mr. Stein specializes in complex commercial litigation and has successfully litigated at the trial and appellate levels in both state and federal court. He has extensive experience in the fields of Antitrust Law, Employment and Trade Secrets Law, Entertainment Law, First Amendment Law, and Securities Law.

 

Robert R. Viducich

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Robert R. Viducich, was admitted to practice in New York in 1993 and in the District of Colombia in 2000. He is also admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Mr. Viducich graduated from the St. John's University School of Law in 1992, where he served on the St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary. He received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1989.

 

Mark A. Weissman

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Mark A. Weissman, was admitted to practice in New York and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York in 1998. Mr. Weissman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1997, where he served as an editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from New York University in 1993.

Mr. Weissman specializes in complex civil litigation, criminal defense and corporate investigations. He has successfully litigated cases at the trial and appellate levels in both state and federal courts and has extensive experience representing clients in matters before the United States Attorney's Office and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

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