OF COUNSEL

Howard S. Sussman is a widely-experienced trial and appellate litigator, a prominent consultant on domestic and international business issues, and the firm’s elder statesman.

Howard’s legal practice now focuses on assisting international businesses to enter, and to expand their activities in, the American market, and on counseling domestic and international businesses on corporate planning, governance and structure.  Much of Howard’s international practice comes from Sweden, a result of Howard’s decades-long broad-based relationship with Sweden and his fluency in Swedish.

Howard has also tried, arbitrated and argued on appeal many civil and criminal cases, and remains actively involved in litigation, arbitration and mediation.

Howard’s roster of clients includes multi-national corporations in industries such as industrial equipment, consumer products, computer-based activities, and language services.  He serves on boards of directors of some of these corporations, represents them in various negotiated situations, counsels them on a wide variety of issues and oversees litigation relating to them.

Following a year as a Visiting Scholar in Residence at the University of Stockholm, Howard worked at the leading Manhattan firm now known as Chadbourne & Parke LLP.  He was thereafter an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Houston, and then once again a practicing lawyer in Manhattan.  He joined Wrobel & Schatz LLP as of counsel in April 2007.

Howard now lives in Vermont with his wife Margaret Gilmore, who is a cellist with the Arizona Opera Orchestra and other professional performance groups.  Howard is regularly in New York and maintains continuous contact with the office through the internet and telephone.