John Cambria is a partner in the firm’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group, resident in the New York office. John has more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of civil, corporate and commercial litigation.
John has tried jury and non-jury cases, representing plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts in New York and other jurisdictions. He has appeared before various arbitral forums such as the AAA, JAMS, NYSE and FINRA, and he has argued many cases in state and federal appellate courts. John has experience in securities, antitrust, products liability, class actions, fraud and theft of corporate assets/trade secrets, bankruptcy and fraudulent conveyances, breach of fiduciary duty, professional liability and malpractice, insurance coverage, corporate/business transaction disputes, and employment and restrictive covenants. He regularly represents clients in a broad array of business and industry segments.
John was previously with the New York office of Salans, a multinational law firm, where he was co-chairman of the litigation department, the managing partner of the firm’s New York office, and a member of the firm’s Global Executive and Compensation Committees. Before joining Salans’s predecessor firm, Christy & Viener, in 1989, he was a partner of Jones Hirsch Connors & Bull and an associate with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
John Cambria is a partner in the firm’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group, resident in the New York office. John has more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of civil, corporate and commercial litigation.
John has tried jury and non-jury cases, representing plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts in New York and other jurisdictions. He has appeared before various arbitral forums such as the AAA, JAMS, NYSE and FINRA, and he has argued many cases in state and federal appellate courts. John has experience in securities, antitrust, products liability, class actions, fraud and theft of corporate assets/trade secrets, bankruptcy and fraudulent conveyances, breach of fiduciary duty, professional liability and malpractice, insurance coverage, corporate/business transaction disputes, and employment and restrictive covenants. He regularly represents clients in a broad array of business and industry segments.
John was previously with the New York office of Salans, a multinational law firm, where he was co-chairman of the litigation department, the managing partner of the firm’s New York office, and a member of the firm’s Global Executive and Compensation Committees. Before joining Salans’s predecessor firm, Christy & Viener, in 1989, he was a partner of Jones Hirsch Connors & Bull and an associate with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.
John is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Federal Bar Council. At the Association of the Bar, he is a member of the In-house Counsel/Outside Litigation Counsel Group. He is also a neutral mediator for the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court, New York County. In 2009, John was appointed as a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Department of the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, and he was also named to the Board of Directors of the Office of the Appellate Defender, a public service organization which provides appellate counsel to indigent criminal defendants. For the past several years, John has regularly been listed in The Best Lawyers in America and New York Super Lawyers in the field of commercial litigation.
John received his J.D. in 1976 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and his B.A., summa cum laude, in 1973 from the College of the Holy Cross. He is admitted to practice before state and federal courts in New York, the Supreme Court of the United States, and he has been admitted in numerous state and federal courts throughout the United States on a pro hac vice basis.