Daniel J. Brooks ’73 Joins Scarola Malone & Zubatov

Daniel J. Brooks ’73 has joined Scarola Malone & Zubatov LLP as a partner. The firm advocates on behalf of clients in commercial cases and counsels clients in complex business and financial matters. Based in New York City, they represent businesses and individuals located throughout the country and around the world, in matters both local and international. 

Brooks is a commercial litigator whose practice focuses on securities, copyright and employment litigation and arbitration. Brooks has first-chaired many trials and arbitrations and argued dozens of appeals in a wide array of substantive areas, including in the financial industry (representing financial institutions and financial industry professionals in matters ranging in scope from defending customer fraud claims, to broker compensation disputes, to employee raiding and contractual non-compete disputes, as well as claims of trading on insider information); in class action litigation (defending corporations, officers and directors against shareholder actions); and in intellectual property law. In the copyright area, Brooks recently represented the plaintiff in a leading art appropriation case which produced the definitive fair use decision of the past decade. He has written and lectured extensively on copyright law at several law schools and to bar association committees. Brooks has served on the New York City Bar Association Committees on Securities Regulation and Federal Courts. He is a member of the arbitration panel at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and of the Commercial Panel at the American Arbitration Association. Brooks also serves on the Board of the National Institute for Reproductive Health Action Fund, an organization advocating for women’s reproductive rights. He is frequently recognized as a New York Super Lawyer and New York Top Rated Lawyer. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner for 12 years at Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis and, prior to that, a founding partner of Layton Brooks & Hecht, a litigation boutique.