Gregory L Diskant

Gregory Diskant is a senior litigator at Patterson Belknap, where he served as Chair from 1997-2007. As part of his active trial practice, Mr. Diskant regularly tries cases in federal and state courts and before arbitration panels, focusing on complex commercial and intellectual property litigation. He has secured billions of dollars in judgments and settlements for his clients, with multiple verdicts greater than $100 million. In jury trials around the country, Mr. Diskant has successfully represented both plaintiffs and defendants. Two of his jury victories for plaintiffs were cited as major plaintiff's verdicts of the year; two of his jury wins for defendants were cited as major defendant's verdicts of the year. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

He previously served as Assistant United States Attorney and Chief Appellate Attorney for the Southern District of New York. He also served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Judge J. Skelly Wright, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers

J.D., Columbia Law School, Editor-in-Chief, Columbia Law Review, James Kent Scholar; A.B., Princeton University, Chemistry