Lauren Tabaksblat

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Lauren Tabaksblat, a founding partner of Brithem LLP and nationally recognized litigator, represents clients in high-stakes disputes from pre-litigation through trial and appeal. She advises public companies, private corporations, and high-net-worth individuals in courts and arbitrations nationwide, and has been described by clients as a “real trial lawyer” and “brilliant strategist” who “commands the courtroom.” She is known for creative, aggressive approaches to complex commercial disputes, with experience spanning partnership, contract, real estate, RICO, securities, trafficking, malpractice, tax, and insurance matters. Her bespoke litigation strategies and skilled courtroom advocacy have earned Lauren inclusion on Forbes inaugural Top Women Lawyers in America list and Law360s Trial Group of the Year.

Lauren’s work has drawn significant media attention, including her ongoing representation of over 200 victims of child pornography, rape, and trafficking in Fleites v. MindGeek—a landmark case against the largest online porn company, Visa, and several hedge funds, which was covered by major outlets such as The New York Times, CNN, and Bloomberg. She also represented Fairfax Financial Holdings in a decade-long dispute of Wall Street hedge funds that led to the largest insider trading conviction in history and inspired the Showtime drama “Billions.”

Career

Brithem LLP, Founding Partner

Brown Rudnick, Partner & Co-Chair of Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice and Member of the Management Committee

Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, Litigation Partner

Work Highlights

• In a landmark case against the world’s largest online pornography company, its hedge fund financiers, and Visa, Lauren represents over 200 victims whose sexual exploitation appeared in videos uploaded to Pornhub and other websites owned by MindGeek (now Aylo), exposing the industry’s widespread monetization of child porn and rape videos, drawing significant public attention to this largely unknown abuse, and forcing major reforms that established both a model for other victims to pursue and critical legal precedent to help end this horrific abuse.

• Lauren waged a decade-long fight to save Canadian insurer Fairfax Financial from a short-selling attack designed to bankrupt the company and secure billions in short-selling gains. Deploying the firm’s organic investigative group to conduct a year-long investigation, Lauren used the evidence uncovered to launch an unprecedented RICO and commercial disparagement suit against the funds and their co-conspirators. The suit not only stopped the attacks but, according to market participants and the SEC’s former top economist, quickly discredited the lies and restored billions in market cap within months.

• Lauren represents Blueprint Capital Advisors, a Black-owned asset manager, in a landmark civil rights and RICO case exposing bias and corruption in the “old boys’ network” controlling the highest levels of state government and global finance. The suit accuses the New Jersey Division of Investment, BlackRock, Owl Rock, Governor Phil Murphy, and senior officials in his administration of diverting promised advisory contracts and investments away from Blueprint and toward overwhelmingly white competitors. The complaint alleges government insiders shared Blueprint’s confidential strategies with BlackRock, allowing the financial giant to launch a near-identical product, while state officials rewarded participants in the scheme with hundreds of millions in pension assets.

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