Jerome E. Hyman is senior counsel based in the New York office.
Mr. Hyman's practice focuses on corporate and securities matters.
Mr. Hyman joined the firm in 1948 and became partner in 1959. From late 1982 to early 1984, Mr. Hyman also served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Hyman was law clerk to the Honorable Judge John C. Mahoney, United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit. He also served as an investigator of German cartels in the Office of Military Government for Germany from 1945 to 1946.
Mr. Hyman received an LL.B. degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1947, where he was case editor of the
Law Review and received the Fay Diploma. He received his undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Hyman is a member of the Bar in New York and in the District of Columbia (inactive). He is also admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Mr. Hyman is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Bar Association, the American Law Institute, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the New York County Lawyers' Association. He was a Trustee, Chairman of the Executive Committee, President and Chairman of the Board of the Practising Law Institute, and is now Chairman Emeritus. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a former Chairman of the Committee on Corporation Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and a member of the TriBar Committee on Legal Opinions. He has held many leadership positions, including Chairman of the Major Gifts Committee of the Harvard Law School Fund, Trustee, Vice President and President of the Harvard Law School Association of New York City, member of the Executive Committee of the Council of the national Harvard Law School Association, President of the Lexington Democratic Club, and member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers' Committee to Visit the Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board to the Dean of the Harvard Law School, a Trustee Ameritus of the Endowment Association of the College of William and Mary, a Fellow of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and a Life Trustee of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and a Trustee Emeritus of the Citizens Budget Commission. He also was counsel to the New York Committee for Stevenson and has served as a Delegate to various Democratic state and judicial conventions.