Kaplan Landau Attorneys - Mary Cecilia Sweeney, Associate

Mary Cecilia Sweeney has experience with a variety of matters and proceedings, including ERISA and federal securities law class actions, insurance coverage disputes, commercial landlord/tenant proceedings, state and city administrative hearings, arbitrations, and civil and criminal state court proceedings, and has argued before the Appellate Division and the Court of Appeals for the State of New York.

Ms. Sweeney's recent matters include representing a group of investment firms alleging a multi-million dollar fraud against an international investment bank and its affiliates; prosecution of claims for injunctive relief and breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the dissolution of a partnership; and representing a bank alleging a multi-million dollar claim for accounting fraud against an international accounting firm.

Prior to joining the firm Ms. Sweeney was associated with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and Sullivan & Worcester LLP.

Professional Activities:

• Member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics, 2006-2009)
• Member, American Bar Association

Bar and Court Admissions:

• New York Bar (2004)
• Admitted before the U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

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Education:

College of Mount Saint Vincent 1994
B.S. Mathematics

Fordham University School of Law 2003
J.D.
Notes and Articles Editor, Fordham Law Review

Publication:

Note, "An Argument Against the Arbitrary Acceptance of Guilty Pleas as Statements Against Interest," 71 Fordham Law Review 215, 2002