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Judith L. Mogul is a civil litigator who handles complex commercial litigation for individual and corporate clients, in state and federal courts, at both the trial and appellate levels.  She has extensive experience defending individuals in securities class actions and related regulatory proceedings.  She also regularly represents individuals and companies in a broad variety of commercial matters involving employment, partnership, contract, real estate, tax and insurance disputes.  Ms. Mogul’s recent and current matters include representation of individuals in five separate federal securities class action litigations, representation, on appeal, of an insurance company in connection with the World Trade Center disaster on September 11, 2001, and representation of another insurer in a dispute following a merger transaction.

Ms. Mogul received her B.A from Wesleyan University, where she graduated with High Honors in History.  She received her J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where she was a member of the Law Review and of the Order of the Coif.

Ms. Mogul served as law clerk to the Honorable José A. Cabranes, then U.S. District Judge for the District of Connecticut.  She also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where she represented the United States in all aspects of affirmative and defensive litigation, including constitutional, personal injury, tax, bankruptcy, employment discrimination, environmental, and fraud claims.   Ms. Mogul has also been an Adjunct Professor at Pace University Law School, teaching classes in federal pre-trial civil litigation and interviewing, counseling and negotiation, and coordinated a legal services/public interest externship program.

Ms. Mogul writes extensively on issues relating to litigation, contributing to over one hundred articles in the New York Law Journal in the areas of federal civil procedure and discovery, white collar criminal law and criminal tax law.  Ms. Mogul currently is the co-author of a regular column on civil practice in the Southern District of New York.   She also assists in providing annual updates to Civil Practice in the Southern District of New York, 2d Ed. (Thomson West 2009), a frequently cited  two-volume treatise.  

Ms. Mogul joined Morvillo Abramowitz in 2008 as Counsel and became a Principal in July of that year.   She is admitted to practice in New York and before the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.