Ted Hecht Named Managing Partner of New York Office

Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP is pleased to announce that Theodore L. Hecht has been named Managing Partner of the firm’s New York office.

Schnader opened the New York office in 1984 and it is now the firm’s second largest office, located in the Financial District of Manhattan.

“I am pleased with the firm’s decision to appoint Ted as managing partner of our New York office,” said Nicholas J. LePore, III, Managing Partner of the Firm. “He is an excellent attorney, deeply familiar with the business and legal issues facing the New York region, and we look forward to the office’s continued success under his direction.”

Hecht is a member of Schnader’s departments for both Business Services and Litigation and the practice groups for Construction, Class Action, and Appellate Practice. He has successfully tried civil and criminal cases to verdict and award and argued appeals in a wide range of venues. He has represented clients in construction, complex commercial, products liability, employment, personal injury, and criminal cases. Hecht is ranked by Chambers USA – America’s Leading Business Lawyers Guide for construction law, 2012-present.

Active in civic and charitable pursuits, Hecht served as a fire fighter in the Town of Mamaroneck Fire Department, being named honorary chief and department counsel. He also serves as a member of the Board of Ethics for the Town of Mamaroneck.

Hecht graduated, cum laude, from New York Law School and received a B.A., with distinction, from the University of Wisconsin.

Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP is a law firm of approximately 160 attorneys located throughout eight offices, with a reputation for its strong national and international practice spanning more than 40 areas of law. Since 1935, Schnader has remained committed to the original mission of excellence in practicing law, responsiveness to clients, and the provision of public service upon which the firm was established.