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Pierre Leval's Biography

Contact Information

Office

Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse
40 Foley Square
New York, NY 10007

Full Name:

Pierre N. Leval

Gender:

Male

Birth Date:

1936

Birth Place:

New York, NY

JD, Harvard Law School, 1963

AB, Harvard College, 1959

No political experience information on file.

Senior Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2002-present

Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton

Adjunct Faculty, New York University School of Law

Served, United States Army

Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1993-2002

Confirmed by the United States Senate, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, October 18, 1993

Nominated by President William J. Clinton, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, August 6, 1993

Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 1977-1993

Assistant District Attorney, New York County, New York, 1975-1977

Chief Assistant District Attorney, New York, N, 1976-1977

Confirmed by the United States Senate, Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, October 29, 1977

Nominated by President Jimmy Carter, Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, October 17, 1977

First Assistant District Attorney, New York, New York, 1975-1976

Associate/Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, 1969-1975

Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1964-1968

Chief Appellate Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1967-1968

Law Clerk, Honorable Henry J. Friendly, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1963-1964

Board Member, Federal Judicial Center, 2002-2006

Awards:

Hillmon Memorial Fellowship by the University of Wisconsin in 1988; the Donald R. Brace Memorial Lectureship by the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. in 1989; the Fowler Harper Memorial Fellowship by Yale Law School in 1992; the Melville Nimmer Lectureship by UCLA Law School in 1997; the Learned Hand Medal of the Federal Bar Council in 1997; and the University of Connecticut School of Law's Intellectual Property Keynote Lectureship for 2001

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