Deborah Sturman

DEBORAH M. STURMAN is a distinguished international litigator. She is fluent in German and several other European languages and represents European institutional investors in securities actions in the United States. She also counsels European investors in connection with their United States investments.

Ms. Sturman conceived of and filed the first suits in United States courts on behalf of Holocaust-era slave labor victims that led to recoveries of approximately $7 billion. She has been profiled in both The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times for her innovative lawyering. Ms. Sturman regularly appears as a legal commentator on German, Dutch and Belgian television, as well as on numerous international and national Continuing Legal Education panels for complex and international litigation.

During the 1990s, she represented Holocaust survivors and their heirs seeking restitution of real property in the former East Germany "Aryanized" during World War II. Deborah is a member of the California Holocaust Era Insurance Oversight Committee, to which she was appointed by California Governor Gray Davis in 2000. She was also appointed Special Liaison Counsel in In re Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation. In 2000, she was a runner-up for National Law Journal Lawyer of the Year.

Ms. Sturman received a Prix d'Excellence from the Royal Brussels Conservatory of Music and a J.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law. She practices primarily out of the firm's New York office.