Stuart Slotnick

Stuart Slotnick is a New York City defense attorney and a partner at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney.

Personal life

In 2006, Slotnick married Amy Albert, a counsel to New York law firm Weiss & Hiller.^[1] His father is Barry Slotnick, a litigation attorney well known for defending Bernard Goetz.^[2]

Career

Slotnick graduated from Brandeis University cum laude and attended New York University for law school.^[1] He currently serves as the managing shareholder of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney's New York office.^[3] Prior to joining Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, he served as a special counsel at a New York litigation boutique.^[4]

Slotnick is known for defending several soldiers against the Army's stop-loss policy. In 2004, he successfully defended Jay Ferriola, a retired Army Captain who was ordered to redeploy to Iraq after completing eight years of service, under the grounds that the Army violated his due process rights.^[5][6] The case was the first to challenge the Army's stop-loss policy, which had affected tens of thousands of soldiers since the start of the Iraq War.^[7] Slotnick went on to successfully try four more similar cases.^[8]

Slotnick also serves as corporate counsel to billionaire casino magnate, Steve Wynn, in litigation matters that have resulted in successful dismissal of claims and positive settlements.^[9] He has also served as a long-time lawyer for American Apparel. In December 2006, he helped them navigate a $250 million acquisition deal with Endeavour Acquisition Corp.^[10] He later represented American Apparel when they were sued by Woody Allen for using Allen's image without permission.^[11][12] The suit was settled before trial by American Apparel paying Allen $5 million.^[13]

Slotnick represented Donald Schupak of Renaissance Art Investors in their case against Salander-O'Reilly art galleries.^[14][15] After the gallery's owner Lawrence Salander accumulated debts to multiple clients including Schupak, Salander was forced to postpone a huge exhibition.^[16] Slotnick went on to secure hundreds of works from Salander for Renaissance Art Galleries.^[17] He represented Weitz Communications in a suit against Capital Play over an allegedly unpaid consulting fee.^[18] He won a $2 million suit for a woman who had permanent liver damage from the diabetes drug Rezulin.^[19] Slotnick worked for Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz and was acknowledged for his work in the New York Times bestselling book Chutzpah.^[20]

Most recently, Slotnick attained a settlement for Sportingbet PLC in a case against the United States Attorney of the Southern District of New York.^[21] Sportingbet PLC, a publicly traded company on the London Stock Exchange (LON: SBT) entered into a non-prosecution agreement and forfeiture of $33 million.^[22] The settlement was viewed as a positive one for Sportingbet, as a competitor, Partygaming PLC, settled similar charges in 2009 for $105 million.^[23][24]

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