Howard S. Sussman

Howard S. Sussman graduated from Princeton University (A.B. cum laude in Chemistry) in 1958 and from Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, in 1962. He spent the next academic year as a visiting scholar at the University of Stockholm, where he became fluent in Swedish and established the foundation for wide-ranging law-related activities in Sweden in which he remains actively involved. He was a director of The Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce, New York, from 1996 through 2007.

On his return to New York from Stockholm, Mr. Sussman was an associate in the corporate and litigation departments of Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff, after which he served for six years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in both the civil and criminal divisions. Thereafter he was an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Houston and, in 1983, returned to New York to resume the practice of law. He was a founding partner of Sussman Sollis Tweedy & Wood, LLP, and was there from 1995 as a partner and later Senior Counsel until he came to Wrobel & Schatz LLP as of Counsel effective April 1, 2007.

Mr. Sussman concentrates his practice mainly on business counseling for international and domestic clients, including issues of business planning, and of corporate governance and structure, and has assisted international businesses to enter and expand in the American market, He has also has tried and arbitrated, and argued on appeal, a wide variety of civil and criminal cases and remains actively involved in litigation, arbitration and mediation. He is admitted to practice in New York State, Texas (inactive) and various federal courts.

Mr. Sussman has been a member of the New York City Bar Association since 1964, where has served on many committees, most recently the Arbitration Committee, and of the Federal Bar Council. He is “AV” rated by Martindale-Hubbell, has taught trial advocacy for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and, in Stockholm, for the Swedish Bar Association, and is listed in Who’s Who in American Law, Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. He is married to Margaret Gilmore, a cellist with the Arizona Opera Orchestra and other professional performance groups.