PERSON: Gerard Filitti

The Lawfare Project

Senior Counsel

Gerard Filitti is Senior Counsel at The Lawfare Project. He joined The Lawfare Project after working as a litigator in private practice for over 15 years, including at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP and Osen LLC. He has broad experience in commercial and complex litigation across a wide variety of practice areas, in both state and federal courts. Representative clients include Johnson & Johnson, DePuy Orthopaedics, Janssen Pharmaceutia, Honeywell, Alcon, Travelers, Allstate, MetLife, and ADP. More recently, he pursued civil counter-terrorism litigation with an emphasis on money laundering investigations, and represented victims of international acts of terrorism in litigation brought under the Anti-Terrorism Act (“ATA”), the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (“JASTA”), and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”).

Gerard earned his undergraduate degree from New York University. He went on to complete a Master’s Degree (with Merit) at the University of London, writing his dissertation on Exchange Rate Misalignment and Reform in Post-Revolutionary Iran. He was subsequently elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (U.K.), and was a scholar of the Middle East and Central Asia before focusing his attention on the practice of law, graduating from the University of Michigan Law School. Gerard is a member of the New York and New Jersey Bars and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Gerard’s first book, Frozen Tide, was featured in Panama City News Herald’s “The Beach’s Best Bookish Bets” as a “timely thriller” that “follows the investigation of a terrorist attack on American soil – with plot twists that could be ripped from the headlines.”

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