Cozen O’Connor: Wise, Tamar S.

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

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.

Publications

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...

Tamar S. Wise