AFJCT Board of Directors
 

Aurora Cassirer, Esq.
Partner
Troutman Sanders LLP

(Updated biography will follow soon)

An experienced trial attorney, Ms. Cassirer's varied litigation practice has included many business, banking, insurance, real estate, employment and professional liability matters.  

Ms. Cassirer has been active in the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.  She has trained and serves as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. She has served as the Chapter 11 trustee in a major bankruptcy proceeding in the Southern District of New York.

Ms. Cassirer is active in the American Bar Association.    She has moderated programs and lectured at various meetings of the ABA and New York State Bar Association on such varied subjects as litigation skills, insurance coverage, workouts and restructures of troubled loans, lender liability, the use of experts to prove damages, unfair competition and trade secrets, the fundamentals of deposition discovery, the use of arbitration clauses, litigation issues in leveraged buyouts, labor and employment issues including discrimination and harassment claims, and restrictive covenants.

Ms. Cassirer graduated from Brooklyn College and the New York University School of Law.  She is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the New York women’s Bar Association.

She has served on the Board of Directors of Congregation B’nai Yeshurun in Teaneck and has been active in the UJC Professional Divisions.  Ms. Cassirer is also active in the New York University School of Law Alumni Association.

She is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Friends of the Jerusalem College of Technology.