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 Susan Harkins litigates business claims on behalf of major corporate clients. For over twenty years, her practice has concentrated on the defense of securities cases brought against large broker dealers and their employees.
Ms. Harkins graduated from the St. John's University School of Law in 1980, where she was a Publications Editor of the St. John's Law Review and a St. Thomas More Scholar. She received her undergraduate degree from the State University of New York College at Oneonta in 1976.
After graduating from law school, Ms. Harkins joined Shearman & Sterling, where she was employed as an associate in the litigation department of the firm. In 1982, Ms. Harkins began a clerkship with The Honorable Henry F. Werker, United States District Judge, Southern District of New York. Following the clerkship, she became an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, specializing in civil litigation on behalf of the United States Government.
In 1986, Ms. Harkins joined Cahill Gordon & Reindel and worked primarily on securities litigation and arbitration matters. She left Cahill in 1991 to join the in-house legal department of Smith Barney, Harris, Upham & Co. Inc. Ms. Harkins spent eleven years at Smith Barney, defending the firm in proceedings throughout the United States.
In 2002, Ms. Harkins moved to Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, & Smith, Inc. where she served as the Divisional Counsel for the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Divisions of the firm's retail branch network. In 2008, she was named the deputy manager of Merrill Lynch's Core Litigation Group, which handled issues relating to margin and other asset-based lending products, fraud, theft, and other significant disputes. Ms. Harkins joined Michaels, Ward & Rabinovitz in 2009 and is the Managing Partner of the firm's New York City office.
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