John Singer (attorney)

John Singer (born July 21, 1967) is an American lawyer, known as a Wall Street Employment and Securities attorney. He has appeared frequently on CNBC, MSNBC, the Fox Business Network, NBC's Today Show, ABC's Good Morning America, CNN, PBS, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg Television, and NPR as a legal analyst and commentator.

Singer has been quoted in numerous news articles, and The Wall Street Journal published an interview with him in November 2008.^[1] Singer is a partner with Singer Deutsch LLP,^[2] a Securities, Employment, and Entertainment law firm with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Singer is designated as a Martindale-Hubbell “AV Preeminent” ranked attorney by his peers in the areas of Labor, Employment, Litigation and Securities Law. Singer was designated as a "New York Super Lawyer" in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014, having been chosen for this distinction by both his peers and through independent research conducted by Law & Politics. Only five percent of New York metro attorneys have been named to the list.^[3] Singer lives in New York City and Water Mill, New York with his wife and their daughter and son. Singer graduated Magna Cum Laude from Tufts University in 1989, and he received his JD from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1992.

Career

Singer started his legal career at Rosenman & Colin LLP in New York (now, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP) following graduation from the Georgetown University Law Center in 1992. In 1996, Singer joined Proskauer Rose LLP in New York. He moved to the firm's Los Angeles office in 2001.^[4]

In 2003, Singer and Michael Deutsch, a Georgetown Law classmate and an NHL hockey agent, formed Singer Deutsch LLP in New York. The firm opened its Los Angeles office in 2007 and its San Francisco office in 2009.^[5]

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