Douglas J. Pepe
Top rated Business Litigation attorney in New York, New York
Zaiger Linden Roberti & Pepe LLC
Practice areas: Business Litigation
Licensed in New York since: 2000
Education: Columbia Law School
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2013 - 2026 
Selected to Rising Stars: 2012 Zaiger Linden Roberti & Pepe LLC
125 Park Ave25th Floor
New York, NY 10017 Phone: 212-258-0652 Email: Douglas J. Pepe Visit website
Details 
Douglas J. Pepe is a partner at Zaiger Linden Roberti & Pepe LLC. His practice focuses on representing corporate and institutional clients in complex commercial disputes, defending prominent law firms in malpractice and professional liability cases, advising companies and their directors and officers in insurance disputes, serving as settlement counsel in challenging resolutions, and providing advice and expertise in blockchain law. Additional biographical information can be found here.
First Admitted: 2000, New York
Professional Webpage: https://www.zlrp.com/douglas-j-pepe
Bar / Professional Activity
- Member, American Law Institute
- Senior Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
Scholarly Lectures / Writings
- An examination of blockchain’s potential to revolutionize asset transactions and ownership tracking. This article addresses unresolved legal issues surrounding property rights in cryptocurrencies, NFTs, real and personal property, and non-possessory legal rights and interests, emphasizing the need for modernized legal frameworks to maximize blockchain’s advantages., Author, Property Rights in Blockchain Assets: Emerging Issues from a U.S. Perspective, European Journal of Law Reform, Blockchain, Blockchain Assets, Real World Assets, 2024
- Is it really a security if you can eat it? Or is something else going on here?, Author, Are Graham Crackers Securities?, Blockchain Law Alliance, Blockchain, 2022
- How a pseudonymous post changed one of our oldest technologies., Author, The Age of Decentralized Ledgers, Blockchain Law Alliance, Blockchain, 2022
- Examining the application of the securities laws to "utility tokens.", Author, Are Blockchain Utility Tokens Securities?, Law360, Blockchain, 2018
- Arguing that the Second Circuit should adopt a single statement of the doctrine concerning whether a court may consider documents attached to a motion to dismiss, define its terms, and warn against the use of the doctrine for any purpose other than determining if a document may be considered without converting a motion to dismiss into a motion for summary judgment., Author, Documents on a Motion to Dismiss: A Rule That Should Be Clarified, New York Law Journal, Litigation, 2016
- Given the continued state of uncertainty surrounding the question of corporate liability under the Alien Tort Statute in the Second Circuit, it may well be time for the court to address the question head-on, and say what the law is in this circuit once and for all., Author, Liability Under Alien Tort Statute in the Second Circuit, New York Law Journal, International Litigation, 2015
- Analyzing the Second Circuit's holding that a litigant's subjective intent to initiate a foreign action is not enough to seek discovery under §1782, an application must be supported by "objective indicium" that a foreign action will be brought., Author, Seeking Discovery for Use in Foreign Proceedings Under §1782, New York Law Journal, International Litigation, 2015
- In the post-crisis era of near zero interest rates, New York's 9 percent prejudgment interest rate can actually prove to be a plaintiff's best investment strategy. Are there options available to defendants to stop the clock on statutory prejudgment interest in contract disputes? In New York state court, the clear answer is "yes." In federal court, the answer is a bit more complicated., Author, Prejudgment Interest in Contract Disputes, New York Law Journal, Litigation, 2014
- Book chapter in Foreign Affairs Litigation in United States Courts presented at the University of Virginia School of Law Sokol Colloquium., Author, Foreign Affairs Takings: The Question of Foreign Plaintiff Standing, Brill, Litigation, 2013
- Book chapter covering disclosure and discovery in NFA arbitration proceedings., Author, Discovery in NFA Arbitrations, Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Futures Industry (Juris), Litigation, 2013
- You're embroiled in a knock-down, drag-out fight. Your adversary crosses the line separating forceful advocacy from misconduct. Not once. Not innocently. Not trivially. Sanctions are in order. Yet, most judges don't like them. So, how do you persuade the court to impose them? What kinds of sanctions can you ask for? The article provides five practical tips for filing an effective sanctions motion., Author, Persuading Courts to Impose Sanctions on Your Adversary, Litigation, Vol. 36 No. 2 (American Bar Association), Litigation, 2010
Honors
- Chancellor Kent Scholar, Columbia Law School, 1999
Office location for Douglas J. Pepe
125 Park Ave
25th Floor
New York, NY 10017
Selections
14 Years Super Lawyers
1 Year Rising Stars
- Super Lawyers: 2013 - 2026
- Rising Stars: 2012