Clerks Brochure - Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Harold P. Weinberger, Partner
Advertising Practice Head
Law Clerk to Honorable Paul R. Hays, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit, 1970-1971. Columbia Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, 1970);
City College of the City University of New York (B.A., 1967). Notes and
Comments Editor, Columbia Law Review.
I summered at one of New York’s behemoths, but after my clerkship for Judge
Paul R. Hays on the Second Circuit, I heard about a firm that was touted to
have a level of talent and a sophisticated caseload comparable to any in New
York. I was promised hands-on experience. I took the bait and 38 years later,
I am still here at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.
My expectations were met; instead of several years of document production,
I quickly found myself arguing motions and litigating against far more senior
lawyers from other firms. From those early experiences, I have moved on
to a rewarding career litigating interesting, significant cases in courts all
over the country. I primarily handle false advertising, trademark, and anticounterfeiting
actions, as well as trade secrets and intellectual property
licensing matters. The work is challenging, fast-paced and intellectually
stimulating. We regularly represent leading consumer products companies,
including Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble, in preliminary injunction
proceedings and jury trials involving well known products. These cases provide
excellent opportunities for junior lawyers to take on significant responsibilities
and to see their hard work pay off in the courtroom.
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel is obviously quite a bit bigger now than when
I finished my clerkship, but the attributes that attracted me are still here.
Indeed many of us, who came here for the same reasons as I, have done
our best to preserve them for new waves of former clerks and other junior
aspiring litigators.
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