John Cambria is a partner in the firm’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group, resident in New York. John has 35 years of experience in all aspects of civil, corporate and commercial litigation. He joined Alston & Bird in 2004 and is the senior litigator in our New York office.
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, FINRA and CPR. John has argued many cases in state and federal appellate courts and has appeared regularly before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department. John has also argued before the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court. John has experience in securities, antitrust, products liability, class actions, fraud and theft of corporate assets, misappropriation of 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. For the past six years, John has regularly been listed in The Best Lawyers in America and New York Super Lawyers in the field of commercial litigation.
John Cambria is a partner in the firm’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group, resident in New York. John has 35 years of experience in all aspects of civil, corporate and commercial litigation. He joined Alston & Bird in 2004 and is the senior litigator in our New York office.
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, FINRA and CPR. John has argued many cases in state and federal appellate courts and has appeared regularly before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department. John has also argued before the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court. John has experience in securities, antitrust, products liability, class actions, fraud and theft of corporate assets, misappropriation of 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. For the past six years, John has regularly been listed in The Best Lawyers in America and New York Super Lawyers in the field of commercial litigation.
John was previously with the New York office of Salans, an international 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, he was a partner of Jones Hirsch Connors & Bull. John began his legal career at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, where he practiced for almost ten years.
John is active in various New York City legal and civic organizations. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Office of the Appellate Defender (OAD), a New York City public service organization which provides appellate counsel to indigent criminal defendants. Alston & Bird participates in OAD’s Volunteer Appellate Defenders program. In 2009, John was appointed a member of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Department of the Supreme Court, Appellate Division. John is also a member of the Board of Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert (JALBCA), an organization of New York City judges and lawyers which provides community-based mammogram screening and promotes breast cancer awareness throughout the city. In 2011, JALBCA honored John with its annual Thompson Family Award. 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.
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 the state and federal trial and appellate courts in New York, the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Third and Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeal. John has also been admitted in numerous state and federal courts throughout the United States on a pro hac vice basis.