Armen Shahinian

Practice Areas

Overview

Practice Areas

Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights • Litigation • Surety & Fidelity

Industry Experience

Construction

Armen Shahinian practices in the areas of commercial litigation, construction litigation, surety and fidelity law, and bankruptcy and creditors’ rights.

Armen served as a member and chairman of the New Jersey Supreme Court District Ethics Committee for West Essex County from 1989 to 1993. He is a member of the American Bar Association Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section Fidelity & Surety Law Committee, having served as Chair from 2000 to 2001. He is also a member of the ABA Litigation and Public Contract Law Sections. He has also served as a member of the Editorial Board of the ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section’s quarterly publication The Brief and served as a member of its Continuing Legal Education Board.

Armen is a member of the Board of Directors of the Surety Claims Institute and Editor-in-Chief of its Newsletter. Currently, he serves as an Advisor to the Surety and Fidelity Claims Committees of the Surety & Fidelity Association of America. He also is a Past-Trustee and Past-President of the Legal Services Foundation of Essex County and is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. In the mid-1990s, Armen helped found the Fidelity Law Association and currently serves as Advisor Emeritus.

In 2018, Armen was honored by the American Bar Association Tort Trial and Insurance Section’s Fidelity and Surety Law Committee as a recipient of its “Martin J. Andrew Award.”

Armen is a graduate of the New York University School of Law where he served as Associate Editor of the Annual Survey of American Law.

Education