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Tamar S. Wise

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Tamar S. Wise

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18 Cozen O'Connor Attorneys Named New York Metro Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
Super Lawyers has named 17 Cozen O'Connor attorneys to its 2018 New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars list. Twelve were recognized as Super Lawyers and five were named "Rising Stars."
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Tamar focuses her practice in commercial litigation matters, and has experience in a variety of securities, real estate, breach of contract, and professional malpractice litigations. She regularly represents corporations, directors, and officers in federal securities fraud claims in jurisdictions nationwide.

Tamar has been listed as a New York Metro Super Lawyers - Rising Star from 2012 to 2017. She is admitted to practice in New York and Pennsylvania.

Tamar earned her undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Yale University and her law degree from New York University School of Law, where she was staff editor of the Journal of Law and Business.

Experience

Represented a closely held company and its shareholder against claims brought by a former minority shareholder. The former minority shareholder claimed that he had been oppressed, that he had the license to manufacture 80% of the company’s products, that the company should be shut down, and that the company should have to pay millions of dollars to buy out his stock. Cozen O'Connor defeated the former minority shareholder’s request for an injunction and secured an injunction prohibiting the former minority shareholder from competing. The firm also had the former minority shareholder held in contempt, and was later able to convince an arbitrator to reject the former minority shareholder’s claim as to the value of the company.

Defended a mid-sized, regional law firm and one of its senior corporate partners in a legal malpractice case brought in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. The case involved an underlying business transaction that went bad. Our law firm clients had represented a closely held corporation whose stock was sold to a publicly traded company. When the sellers failed to get paid in full for their stock, they sued the law firm, alleging that the law firm represented them individually and should have done more to protect them from the deal going bad. After more than a week of jury trial (including expert testimony on behalf of the plaintiff), the Court granted our motion for nonsuit at the close of plaintiffs’ case.

Represented Airgas, Inc. in a civil suit against Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. The federal court for the eastern District of Pennsylvania denied Cravath’s motion for judgment on the pleadings, allowing the claims for breach of fiduciary duty and punitive damages to proceed toward jury trial. Shortly thereafter, the case settled.

Successfully moved to dismiss claims brought by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General against our clients, the co-founders and largest shareholders of a dietary supplement manufacturer, for alleged violations of federal and state deceptive advertising laws in connection with claims in company advertising about its product's effects on memory and cognition.

Successfully moved to dismiss all claims brought against our client, an upstate New York real estate developer, by a substantial investor in a $50 million investment fund that took a recession-related downturn. The plaintiff claimed its investment was fraudulently induced, and attempted to avoid a statute of limitations bar by relying on the discovery rule and pointing to financial statements which showed that the fund's value was increasing. In dismissing the claims with prejudice, the court agreed with our argument that those same statements included information which put the investor on notice of the risk, despite the fund's rising bottom line.

Secured a defense verdict at the close of a bench trial on behalf of a large electronics manufacturer and defense contractor that was sued by a Qatari company under contract to act as the client's representative for selling baggage scanners for use at the New Dona International Airport in Qatar. At issue was whether the client owed the plaintiff commissions on certain scanners.

Defended a pro bono client in cancellation of removal proceedings in immigration court. The judge awarded the client the relief requested, and no leave to appeal was given.

Successfully moved to dismiss claims against a minority shareholder and its principal for aiding and abetting directors' and liquidating trustees' breaches of fiduciary duty.

Defeated, on a motion to dismiss, securities fraud claims against an individual board member of a publicly traded REIT.

Represented investors in a claim against Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. involving auction rate securities. Case settled after two days of jury trial.

News

18 Cozen O'Connor Attorneys Named New York Metro Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

September 21, 2018

Super Lawyers has named 17 Cozen O'Connor attorneys to its 2018 New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars list. Twelve were recognized as Super Lawyers and five were named "Rising Stars."

12 Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named 2017 New York Metro Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

October 19, 2017

Super Lawyers has named 12 attorneys at Cozen O’Connor to its 2017 lists of top practitioners in the New York metro area. Six were recognized as Super Lawyers and six were named “Rising Stars,” a list that recognizes attorneys under the age of 40.

19 Cozen O'Connor Attorneys Recognized as New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

October 05, 2016

The 2016 New York Metro edition of Super Lawyers Magazine, published by Thomson Reuters, has named 21 Cozen O’Connor attorneys to its list of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.

21 Cozen O'Connor Attorneys Recognized as New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

October 05, 2015

The 2015 New York Metro edition of Super Lawyers Magazine, published by Thomson Reuters, has named 21 Cozen O’Connor attorneys to its list of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.

16 Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Recognized as New York Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

September 23, 2014

The 2014 New York Metro edition of Super Lawyers Magazine, published by Thomson Reuters, has named 16 Cozen O’Connor attorneys to its list of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.

Cozen O’Connor Team Secures Motion for Nonsuit

February 05, 2013

Jeffrey Weil, Dexter Hamilton and a team of Cozen O’Connor litigators successfully defended a mid-sized, regional law firm and one of its senior corporate partners in a legal malpractice case brought in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. The case involved an underlying business transaction that went bad. Our law firm clients had represented a closely held corporation whose stock was sold to a publicly traded company.

Tamar S. Wise Joins Cozen O’Connor’s Philadelphia Office As Associate

March 07, 2009

Tamar S. Wise has joined Cozen O’Connor’s Philadelphia office as an associate in the Commercial Litigation Department. Prior to joining the firm, she was an associate with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison in New York. Wise focuses her practice in commercial litigation matters, and has experience in a variety of securities, derivatives and breach of contract actions. She is admitted to practice in New York, and is fluent in Hebrew and Hungarian.

Practical Considerations for Use of FRCP 68 Offer of Judgment [NYLitigator]

May 17, 2017

Alanna Miller, associate in Cozen O'Connor's New York Office, and Tamar Wise, a member of Cozen O'Connor's Commercial Litigation department, published Practical Considerations for Use of FRCP 68 Offer of Judgment in NY Litigator's Spring 2017 issue.

Three’s a Crowd: Third-Party Attorney-Client Privilege Waivers [Corporate Counsel]

September 14, 2015

Tamar Wise and Stephen Kempa discuss recent updates on third-party waivers to attorney-client privilege and two narrow exceptions to that rule.

Updates on Privilege Issues for In-House Counsel in New York [New York Law Journal]

April 15, 2015

Tamar Wise, a member of the Commercial Litigation Department, discusses the scope of attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine in the in-house context.

Courts Clarify Scope of Privilege for Internal Corporate Investigations [DRI: Professionalism Perspectives]

March 04, 2015

In an article titled “Courts Clarify Scope of Privilege for Internal Corporate Investigations,” Thomas Wilkinson and Tamar Wise, members of Cozen O’Connor’s Commercial Litigation Department, discuss a wave of recent cases which have clarified the scope of the attorney-client and work-product privileges in the context of internal corporate investigations.

Caveat Empty Box [Class Action Defense Review Blog]

July 30, 2014

In a strong defense victory from earlier this year, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California denied a proposed class of laptop purchasers the opportunity to proceed against Toshiba as a class, instead forcing individuals with complaints to engage in arbitration with the...

Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation

Financial Services

Litigation

Securities Litigation & SEC Enforcement

Education

New York University School of Law, J.D., 2007
Yale University, B.A., cum laude, 2004

Awards & Honors

New York Super Lawyers "Rising Star" 2012-2018

Bar Admissions

New York
Pennsylvania

Court Admissions

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