Dewey & LeBoeuf

Alan B. Howard

Partner

Alan Howard has twenty-four years of experience handling litigation and arbitration matters domestically and internationally. He has tried cases to juries and judges in federal and state courts throughout the United States, and to arbitrators in proceedings under the rules of the American Arbitration Association and International Chamber of Commerce.

The matters handled by Mr. Howard have involved diverse areas of law, including intellectual property, securities and consumer class actions, and product liability. He has represented a wide range of clients, including a leading telecommunications company, consumer products companies, insurance companies, manufacturers of high-speed trains, and manufacturers of medical products. Mr. Howard currently represents an international financial institution in mass tort litigation.

Common themes to Mr. Howard’s practice consist of the complexity of the issues and scope of the dispute. Mr. Howard often represents defendants confronting multiple proceedings in multiple jurisdictions, and has particular experience representing foreign companies engaged in high stakes U.S. litigation.

Mr. Howard also does extensive pro bono work. He represented one of the defendants in the national prominent “Jena 6” proceedings in Louisiana, a case of national prominence for its civil rights implications. In a story featured in The American Lawyer in July 2009, as well as on CBS Evening News and CNN, Mr. Howard not only represented the youngest of the Jena 6 defendants, but became his guardian making him part of his family.

Mr. Howard currently is lead trial counsel on behalf of a putative class of 500 skilled workers from India who were victims of one of the largest human trafficking schemes in the country’s history. The action, against a large marine fabrication company, has been the subject of a feature story by Dan Rather, and numerous articles and editorials in the New York Times.

Mr. Howard also serves on the Board of Directors of the Southern Poverty Law Center.