VIVIAN RIVERA DROHAN, Partner, is the head of the firm’s Litigation Practice. Her practice encompasses commercial, insurance, investment, labor and employment and intellectual property litigation. Her experience includes federal and state trial and appellate litigation, as well as arbitration and mediation, including international dispute resolution before various arbitration forums such as American Arbitration Association, and Swiss Chamber’s Arbitration Institution, and various regulatory and self-regulatory agencies including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Human Rights Division, Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Commodities Futures Trading Commission and National Futures Association. She was a Partner with Drohan & Drohan LLP from 1995 until that firm’s merger with Lee & Kelley in 2007. Currently, Ms. Drohan’s clients include insureds, public and private investors and issuers, investment funds and managers, banks and brokers, as well as hospitality providers.  Prior to 1995, Ms. Drohan served six years as a Trial Attorney with in-house counsel for Crum & Forster Insurance where she handled an extensive insurance litigation docket involving construction and insurance policy coverage matters in addition to appellate work.

Ms. Drohan is a FINRA approved arbitrator. She is also a member of the Federal Bar Association, the Women’s Bar Association, The Puerto Rican Bar Association, Hispanic National Bar Association, and the New York State Bar Association. She is on the Federal and Commercial Litigation Committee for the New York State Bar Association and the Board of Directors for the New York Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association, as well as co-chair of the Federal Practice and Membership Committees. She has been named as a Super Lawyer in the New York Super Lawyers from 2013 to the present. She previously served on the Board of Directors of FamilyKind Ltd. She graduated from Fordham University in 1986, and earned her Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School.

Ms. Drohan is admitted to practice in New York State, Washington, DC, and Colorado. She is also admitted in the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second and Seventh Circuit.