Stephen L. Dreyfuss, a partner in the firm, is a 1971 graduate of Princeton University, magna cum laude, and a 1974 graduate of Columbia Law School. His third undergraduate year was spent in France, where he studied at the Université de Paris and subsequently worked for Kodak-Pathé, the French subsidiary of Eastman Kodak.

After a two-year clerkship to a United States District Judge in Newark, he served as Assistant District Attorney for New York County, New York until joining Hellring Lindeman Goldstein & Siegal in 1979.

Mr. Dreyfuss' practice is concentrated in international business litigation (civil and criminal) and international business transactions, particularly matters involving France and other countries of the European Union.

In recent years, he has been involved in complex civil and criminal litigation and transactions in securities, banking, antitrust, multimedia and communications, insurance and products liability matters throughout the United States as well as in Europe.

He also serves as Director of Legal Projects and a member of the Executive Committee of the Union Internationale des Avocats, the world's oldest international association of bars, law societies and lawyers, as well as Deputy Chief Editor of the UIA magazine Juriste International.  He is former Chair of the UIA's Commission on Business Crime, and former Vice-Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association's International Law and Organizations Section and of its Antitrust Law Committee. He speaks frequently on international legal and business issues in the United States and abroad, and is the Chair of the Advisory Counsel of the Princeton University Department of French and Italian. He is a Chevalier of the Ordre National du Mérite of the Republic of France.

Mr. Dreyfuss is a member of the Bars of New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia, as well as those of the United States Supreme Court and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the country.

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