honors + affiliations
Trustee, George School
Trustee, Mercer Museum
Member, American Inns of Court
Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association
Member, Philadelphia Bar Association
Recipient, Lawyer on the Fast Track Award, American Lawyer Media (2005)
bar admissions
- Pennsylvania
Court Admissions
- U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuits
- U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
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1701 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2921
Phone: 215.963.4857
Fax: 215.963.5001
Timothy D. Katsiff is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. Mr. Katsiff's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on securities and class action litigation. He has represented numerous public companies and their directors and officers in the defense of securities class actions and derivative actions. He also has represented audit and special committees of boards of public companies in internal investigations of financial reporting and related conduct, as well as public companies, broker-dealers, and individuals in SEC and SRO proceedings.
Mr. Katsiff additionally represents clients in other complex litigation matters, including business torts, class action litigation, intellectual property (trade secrets and patents), environmental litigation, insurance coverage, and banking.
Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Mr. Katsiff was a partner at a full-service law firm. Before entering private practice, he served as a law clerk to Senior Judge John P. Fullam of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Katsiff received his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1994 and his B.A., with special honors, from the University of Chicago in 1991.
Mr. Katsiff is a trustee of the George School, a private boarding and day co-ed high school located in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He is also a trustee of the Mercer Museum and Bucks County Historical Society in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Katsiff is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fifth, and Eleventh Circuits and the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania.
Selected Representations
Note: This list includes engagements completed prior to joining Morgan Lewis.
- Represented a major bank that serviced a portfolio of securitized tax liens in a class action brought by property owners.
- Represented a major bank in an action involving mortgage pool insurance.
- Represented a defense contractor in a consolidated securities fraud class action and derivative actions.
- Represented a major bank in a consolidated securities fraud class action.
- Represented a major bank in derivative actions.
- Represented a major insurance carrier in a large insurance coverage dispute.
- Represented a major technology company in action for business torts in connection with an acquisition.
- Represented a railroad in several environmental site disputes.
- Served as counsel in numerous internal investigations of companies.
- Represented a registered representative in an SEC enforcement action.
- Represented a Fortune 500 telecommunications company as a defendant in litigation alleging infringement of 17 patents.
- Represented a major bank in a class action fraud suit.
- Represented the owner of a collection of rare eighteenth-century photographs in litigation relating to conservation and ownership of the photographs.
- Represented a major foreign bank in a lender liability, foreclosure, and bankruptcy suit concerning a major Philadelphia office building.
education
- Cornell Law School, 1994, J.D.
- University of Chicago, 1991, B.A., With Special Honors