ALAN EFFRON focuses exclusively on litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution of commercial and other civil matters. He was associated for six years with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, in both its New York and Paris offices. Prior to that, he served as a law clerk for Judge Amalya Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He graduated from Columbia Law School, where he was Writing and Research Editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and cum laude from Yale College.