David Rivera

Of Counsel

David Rivera, counsel to the firm, is a civil litigator with experience in securities law and employment law who works with Mr. Mack on a number of ongoing monitorships. Mr. Rivera was a Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated where he handled regulatory investigations and inquiries, defended customer and employment arbitrations in-house, conducted broker-training seminars as part of a Compliance Awareness Program and helped coordinate the defense of several hundred limited partnership arbitrations. From 1988 to l992, Mr. Rivera was a litigation associate at Kelley, Drye & Warren working on complex antitrust and securities cases. In 1986, Mr. Rivera interned in Governor Cuomo's Executive Chamber.

Areas of Practice:

• Complex Civil Litigation
• Internal Investigations, Corporate Compliance, and Monitorships
• Securities Enforcement, Regulatory, and Broker-Dealer Matters
• White Collar Criminal Defense

Bar Admissions:

• New York
• U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York

Education:

• J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1988; Assistant Managing Editor, Columbia Human Rights Law Review
  
• B.A., Queens College Of The City University Of New York, magna cum laude, 1985; Phi Beta Kappa
  

Publications:

• "Rewind, Replay," Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Odyssey (Windstorm Creative) 2005
• "Snatch Me Another," The Web's Best SF and Fantasy for 2008 (Wyrm Publishing)
  

Past Employment Positions:

• Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated, Consultant, 1999
• Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, 1992 - 1997
• Kelley Drye & Warren, New York, Litigation Associate, 1988 - 1992
• Bachner, Tally, Polevoy, Misher & Brinberg, New York, Summer Associate, 1987
• J.C. Penney, Inc., New York, Summer Associate, Legal Department, 1986
• Governor Cuomo's Executive Chamber, New York, Intern, 1986

Languages:

• Spanish