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Josh Sohn

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Areas of Focus

Overview

Josh Sohn is a first-chair trial lawyer with a client-first focus. He places a high priority on cultivating relationships and helping clients identify and achieve their goals in the face of litigation. Through over 25 years of experience, Josh has developed a broad and refined skillset for solving complicated problems.

Josh’s practice encompasses complex disputes for a broad range of clients, including those in the financial services, real estate, employment, construction, and securities industries. The diversity of his practice reflects the multi-faceted approach he takes to litigation, always keeping his clients’ interests at the forefront of legal strategy. As a general commercial litigator, he regularly handles disputes concerning insurance coverage, complex breach of contract, supply-chain disruption, business fraud, corporate governance, and corporate divorce for foreign and domestic clients. As a securities litigator, he handles federal securities claims and class actions, private investment disputes, and directors’ and officers’ liability cases. In his real estate practice, he advises clients and litigates joint venture disputes, defaults and loan accelerations, and commercial lease disputes involving both domestic and overseas parties on behalf of banks, developers, owners, corporate tenants, and public agencies. Josh is a tireless advocate for his clients, and his work has consistently resulted in favorable outcomes amidst challenging legal battles.

Josh tries cases and argues appeals in state and federal courts. He arbitrates cases before regulatory bodies and private tribunals and negotiates resolution of disputes before, during, and after litigation.

Josh is a past recipient of the New York State Bar Association's President's Pro Bono Award.

Career & Education

    • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, J.D., Managing Editor, Cardozo Law Review; Samuel Belkin Award for outstanding contribution to the law school, 1997
    • University of Michigan, B.A., 1994
    • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, J.D., Managing Editor, Cardozo Law Review; Samuel Belkin Award for outstanding contribution to the law school, 1997
    • University of Michigan, B.A., 1994

    • New York
    • Utah
    • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
    • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
    • U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
    • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
    • U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
    • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    • Supreme Court of the United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
    • New York
    • Utah
    • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
    • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
    • U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York
    • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
    • U.S. District Court for the District of Utah
    • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    • Supreme Court of the United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

Josh's Insights

Client Alert | 5 min read | 06.01.26

California Court Upholds Insurer’s Duty to Defend After Covered Claim Is Dismissed

On April 30, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a significant ruling in an insurance coverage dispute between a commercial general liability insurer and its policyholder. The decision addresses several critical issues in insurance law, including the scope and continuity of the duty to defend and the standard for insurer reimbursement of defense costs in mixed-claim actions. The court ruled largely in favor of the insured, SVO Building One, LLC ("SVO"), and the matter now heads toward settlement or trial on SVO's remaining counterclaims....

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Representative Matters

Insurance Recovery

  • Regularly advise clients across industries regarding insurance coverage issues in connection with acquisitions, litigation strategy, and general risk management.
  • Successfully represented trade association in dispute over defense costs.
  • Represent multinational chain of fast casual restaurants in coverage dispute.
  • Represent consumer products company in connection with portfolio of environmental coverage issues.
  • Represent healthcare company in coverage dispute with primary and excess carriers.

Complex Commercial Disputes

  • Represent government contractor in control-dispute arbitration with other member of limited liability company.
  • Represent national food-service company in insurance coverage dispute with its carrier.
  • Represent national association in insurance coverage dispute with its carrier.
  • Represent national consumer products company in supply chain dispute.

Securities Litigation and Securities Enforcement

  • Defended a former-CFO in a formal SEC investigation into financial reporting issues, resulting in no enforcement action.
  • Successfully represented brokers in insider trading investigations by the SEC’s Boston office and NYSE, with no disciplinary actions taken.
  • Obtained a favorable settlement for underwriters in section 11 & 12 securities class action in the Southern District of New York.

Real Estate/Real Estate Finance Litigation

  • Represented majority member in disputes with minority member concerning control of limited liability company that owned and managed hotel.
  • Represented developer over entitlement to deposit from aborted $122 million deal to purchase Washington, D.C. office building.
  • Represented a public agency in breach-of-contract arbitration regarding compliance with construction conditions under a private development agreement.
  • Defended a public agency in a $3.5 billion arbitration brought by a private developer over an alleged breach of a development agreement.

Fiduciary Duty/Officers & Directors Litigation

  • Defended former officers and directors of a private company in breach of fiduciary duty action brought by the company’s trustee in bankruptcy, successfully obtaining a reversal by the Second Circuit.
  • Represented former directors of a public company in defamation and 10b-5 actions.

Employment Matters

  • Lead counsel for plaintiff class in employment discrimination case against New York City Board of Education, recovering more than $2 billion for the class.
  • Represent employees in contract negotiations with private equity and hedge fund employers.
  • Arbitration representation for staffing company against management members alleging breaches of employment agreements and fiduciary duties.

Cross-Border Matters

  • Represented an African media company in a breach of contract action against an international media company.
  • Defending a UK law firm in litigation and arbitration against former U.S. partners.
  • Represented Jamaican fishermen in litigation against the United States Coast Guard over detention conditions.

Josh's Insights

Client Alert | 5 min read | 06.01.26

California Court Upholds Insurer’s Duty to Defend After Covered Claim Is Dismissed

On April 30, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a significant ruling in an insurance coverage dispute between a commercial general liability insurer and its policyholder. The decision addresses several critical issues in insurance law, including the scope and continuity of the duty to defend and the standard for insurer reimbursement of defense costs in mixed-claim actions. The court ruled largely in favor of the insured, SVO Building One, LLC ("SVO"), and the matter now heads toward settlement or trial on SVO's remaining counterclaims....

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Recognition

  • New York State Bar Association, President’s Pro Bono Award
  • Center for Constitutional Rights, President’s Award

Josh's Insights

Client Alert | 5 min read | 06.01.26

California Court Upholds Insurer’s Duty to Defend After Covered Claim Is Dismissed

On April 30, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a significant ruling in an insurance coverage dispute between a commercial general liability insurer and its policyholder. The decision addresses several critical issues in insurance law, including the scope and continuity of the duty to defend and the standard for insurer reimbursement of defense costs in mixed-claim actions. The court ruled largely in favor of the insured, SVO Building One, LLC ("SVO"), and the matter now heads toward settlement or trial on SVO's remaining counterclaims....

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Insights

Client Alert | 5 min read | 06.01.26

California Court Upholds Insurer’s Duty to Defend After Covered Claim Is Dismissed

Blog Post | 04.22.26

COFC Holds that USAID Contractors Properly Pleaded Breach of Contract by Improper Mass Termination in Bad Faith/Abuse of Discretion

Client Alert | 1 min read | 04.17.26

COFC Holds that USAID Contractors Properly Pleaded Breach of Contract by Improper Mass Termination in Bad Faith/Abuse of Discretion

Client Alert | 4 min read | 03.17.26

North Carolina’s Pro-Policyholder Trend Continues: Key Takeaways from the Fourth Circuit’s Wake Chapel Decision

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Practices

Josh's Insights

Client Alert | 5 min read | 06.01.26

California Court Upholds Insurer’s Duty to Defend After Covered Claim Is Dismissed

On April 30, 2026, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a significant ruling in an insurance coverage dispute between a commercial general liability insurer and its policyholder. The decision addresses several critical issues in insurance law, including the scope and continuity of the duty to defend and the standard for insurer reimbursement of defense costs in mixed-claim actions. The court ruled largely in favor of the insured, SVO Building One, LLC ("SVO"), and the matter now heads toward settlement or trial on SVO's remaining counterclaims....

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