Senior Lecturing Fellow
Mr. Lewis has been affiliated with Davis Polk & Wardwell (New York) since 1974. He was made a partner in 1980, and has served as senior counsel since July 2001. His regular client work has been
in three principal areas of trial and appellate practice: representation of financial institutions in numerous capacities (bank syndicates, creditors committees, indenture trustees, corporate trust
departments) in large Chapter 11 reorganizations; drug product liability and mass tort defense (including class action and multidistrict litigation); and general complex civil litigation. Prior to
employment with Davis Polk & Wardwell, he clerked for the Honorable J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York.
Mr. Lewis chaired Davis Polk’s pro bono committee and has been extensively involved in pro bono litigation, primarily death penalty, political asylum, employment discrimination, and landlord-tenant cases. Other civic activities include board chair of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, Citizens Union of the City of New York, and the Executive Committee of the New York Law Institute. He serves on the advisory board of Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A. Professional affiliations include the Section on Litigation of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Committees on Juvenile Justice and Legal Assistance to the Poor).
Mr. Lewis is a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College. As a Keasbey Foundation Scholar he received his B.Phil. from Oxford University, and received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School.