“Everyone at Starfield & Smith has always been great to work with. Very knowledgeable, responsive, and professional.”
Norman E. Greenspan | Senior Counsel
Norman is a Senior Counsel at Starfield and Smith’s Pennsylvania office. He concentrates his practice in complex commercial and corporate litigation, and white collar criminal defense.
- Serves clients in areas including contracts, creditor’s rights, government investigations, internal corporate investigations, financial services, securities, corporate governance, intellectual property
- Adjunct professor of law at Temple University School of Law
- Chaired programs for the Practicing Law Institute, ALI-ABA, and professional trade associations
Norman has tried cases in more than fifteen different venues and has argued appeals to the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Circuit U.S. Courts of Appeal, and to the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Norman spends as much time as he can with his wife, children, grandchildren and pet Brussels Griffon. He plays at golf, like to plan trips, travel, read and drink wine.
Norman E. Greenspan | Senior Counsel
“Everyone at Starfield & Smith has always been great to work with. Very knowledgeable, responsive, and professional.”
Norman is a Senior Counsel at Starfield and Smith’s Pennsylvania office. He concentrates his practice in complex commercial and corporate litigation, and white collar criminal defense.
- Serves clients in areas including contracts, creditor’s rights, government investigations, internal corporate investigations, financial services, securities, corporate governance, intellectual property
- Adjunct professor of law at Temple University School of Law
- Chaired programs for the Practicing Law Institute, ALI-ABA, and professional trade associations
Norman has tried cases in more than fifteen different venues and has argued appeals to the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Circuit U.S. Courts of Appeal, and to the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Norman spends as much time as he can with his wife, children, grandchildren, and pet Brussels Griffon. He plays at golf, like to plan trips, travel, read and drink wine.
Representative Matters Highlights
Represented a national financial institution in defending a lender liability claim brought by two governmental entities seeking in excess of $25 Million in damages. In the same case, prosecuted a counterclaim against one of the governmental entities. After a two week trial, the claims of the governmental entities were denied, and client was awarded judgement in excess of $32 Million.
Represented a multi-state healthcare network in defending a claim of breach of contract seeking more than $23 Million in damages brought by the holder of a note and mortgage on an office building in which the network had a financial interest. The trial court awarded judgment to the healthcare network and against the note holder.
Prosecuted a claim by a national defense contractor claiming breach of representations and warranties in an agreement by which it purchased the assets of a competitor. After a jury trial, the defense contractor was awarded damages in excess of $9 Million.
Represented a software developer in prosecuting a claim for breach of a non-disclosure agreement entered into when the parties were negotiating the acquisition of the software developer. Judgment was awarded to the software developer after a three week arbitration proceeding. Damages were assessed in the several millions of dollars, and an injunction was entered against the respondent.
Successfully defended a national retail store chain against a claim by anchor store tenants and co-tenants seeking an injunction and damages for allegedly breaching covenants not to compete by selling allegedly competing merchandise.
Represented lessee of over 100,000 square feet of commercial real estate used as a call center in a dispute with the commercial office building owner regarding the building owner’s alleged failure to properly mitigate damages after the lessee breached the lease by improperly attempting to terminate the lease early. After three weeks of trial, judgment was awarded in favor of the lessee.
Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- Supreme Court of the United States
- U.S. District Court – Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court – Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court – Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Education
- Temple University Beasley School of Law, J.D.
- Temple University, B.A.
Memberships
- National Institute for Trial Advocacy
- American Bar Association
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Philadelphia Bar Association
- Temple University School of Law Alumni Association
- National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders
Honors & Awards
- AV® Preeminent™ Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers- Pennsylvania 2021 (Business Litigation, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Securities Litigation)