Before joining Kaye Scholer, Mr. Glassman gained extensive trial experience while serving as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He also gained intensive appellate experience as Chief Civil Appellate Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office, arguing numerous appeals and supervising the briefing and argument of many other appeals. He earlier served as an Examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and was then active in government to industry technology transfer programs with NASA at its Washington, DC headquarters. He received his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ("MIT"), and J.D. from Georgetown Law Center, where he was an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.
Mr. Glassman's broad litigation experience has included cases involving the financial and banking, pharmaceutical, chemical, electronics, and biotechnology industries. He has represented plaintiffs and defendants in individual, multi-district, and class actions, involving electronic trading, foreign payments, manipulation of commodities markets, patents, and intellectual property in all of the above fields, was well as fraud, corporate waste and mismanagement. He has represented major corporations and financial institutions, including Alcoa, AlliedSignal (now Honeywell), AT&T, Chiron, Ciba Vision, CLS Bank, GTE, Oppenheimer, Pfizer, Sanofi-Aventis and Union Carbide (now Dow). Mr. Glassman is also experienced in mediation and arbitration, provides strategic opinions and counseling, and has advised on corporate acquisitions, investments and public offerings involving intellectual property and other issues.
Mr. Glassman has been active as a member of the Association of the Bar, has chaired continuing education and industry programs, and has written and lectured on a variety of matters, including jury trials, working with experts in litigation, the advantages of litigation versus arbitration, reliance on advice of counsel, green technology issues, and multiple patent litigation topics.
Government Service
- Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1971-76
- Chief, Civil Rights Section, U.S. Attorney's Office, 1974-75
- Chief Civil Appellate Attorney, S.D.N.Y., 1975-76
- Assistant Section Chief and Counsel, Technology Utilization, NASA, 1966-71
- Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent Office, 1964-65
