Max Feldman is counsel at Hecker Fink LLP.
His wide-ranging practice includes representing companies, institutions, and individuals in complex civil litigation and government and criminal enforcement matters. Recently, in the span of six months, Max was a key member of two winning arbitration teams. At one of the arbitrations, involving highly technical tax and accounting issues, he put on and cross-examined all of the experts in the case. In addition, Max has significant experience in public communications and public policy, having worked as a senior political speechwriter and as a voting rights lawyer.
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- Representing a prominent government contractor, in defending against claims brought against the company under the False Claims Act.
- Representing the Democratic National Committee in various matters, including in connection with a criminal investigation relating to the 2016 presidential election, as well as a defamation and civil RICO suit brought by Donald J. Trump.
- Representing a large life insurance company in a successful arbitration against another large insurer arising out of a contractual dispute relating to a reinsurance transaction.
- Representing a leading university in various matters.
- Representing a major law firm in a successful arbitration against its insurer.
- Representing victims of consumer fraud in a federal class action lawsuit against Donald J. Trump, his adult children, and the Trump Organization.
- Representing a large technology company in a federal lawsuit alleging commercial appropriation, false light, and related claims.
- Representing the former CFO of a global manufacturing company in an Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation of alleged accounting fraud that resulted in the agency declining to bring charges.
- Representing an employee of a multinational energy and commodity trading company in connection with a Department of Justice (DOJ) Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigation involving the alleged payment of bribes in Mexico, Brazil and Ecuador.
- Representing the City of Seattle as amicus curiae opposing a constitutional challenge under the Takings Clause that would undermine local health and safety regimes at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Max was previously a voting rights lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. His most significant litigation matters at the Brennan Center included a challenge to Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s restrictions on absentee ballot drop-off locations ahead of the 2020 election, a challenge to the security of Georgia’s voter registration system that resulted in new provisions of state law, and a lawsuit that prevented Texas from turning over voter data to President Trump’s “voter fraud” commission.
Max also advised policymakers and advocates on election issues and assisted with legislative drafting. In addition, Max wrote several reports on election administration that have been cited extensively in the popular and academic press (including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and Vox) and in legislative reports and testimony. He co-authored a plan to protect the 2020 election from the coronavirus that was widely endorsed by civil rights groups and political scientists.
Max started his legal career as a law clerk for the Honorable Bruce M. Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as a litigation associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP.
Prior to law school, Max served as a speechwriter to Governor Bill Richardson during his campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and as the head speechwriter for Governor David Paterson of New York. In the latter role, Max helped to draft Governor Paterson’s State of the State message, budget address, and other major speeches and worked with senior policymakers to communicate the Governor’s agenda.
Max graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Philosophy, where he was a writer for the Harvard Lampoon. He received his J.D. magna cum laude from New York University School of Law, where he was a Florence Allen Scholar and a Guarini Scholar, and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Max also served as an Articles Editor of the NYU Law Review.