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Chris Houpt joined the Firm in September 2005, after serving as a foreign law clerk for the Honorable Aharon Barak, President of the Supreme Court of Israel. He has written a cert petition in the U.S. Supreme Court and merits briefs in the First, Second, and Seventh Circuits, as well as New York and Pennsylvania state appeals courts, on a wide variety of commercial, procedural, and constitutional issues. He also drafted a successful summary judgment motion in the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court, winning over $7 million for the Firm's client, a multinational electronics company.
Chris earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he graduated cum laude and served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review and a Teaching Fellow in the Economics Department. Prior to law school, Chris worked in portfolio management and business development at the D. E. Shaw Group and as a manager in the finance department of Covad Communications. He graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1998, where he majored in Japanese (with High Honors) and Economics and won the Pray Prize in Modern Languages. Chris is a member of the Bar of the State of New York. |
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