Stephen A. Radin

CONTACT

stephen@allerhand-odoner.com
(XXX) XXX-XXXX

EDUCATION

Yale University | B.A., 1980
Columbia Law School | J.D., 1983, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

Stephen A. Radin retired from Weil, Gotshal & Manges at the end of 2024 after serving more than 40 years in Weil’s Securities Litigation practice group. Steve has litigated, counseled, written, and lectured on corporate governance subjects, winning dozens of motions to dismiss and appeals of rulings granting motions to dismiss in stockholder derivative and class actions alleging breaches of fiduciary duty by directors and officers of some of the largest and most prominent corporations in the United States, in state and federal courts throughout the country.

As noted in The American Lawyer’s Litigator of the Week column on July 16, 2021, Steve’s then-most recent win for GE was “the 17th Radin has scored for GE in derivative litigation dating back to the 1980s.” Steve is the author of The Business Judgment Rule: Fiduciary Duties of Corporate Directors, a four-volume, 6,000-page treatise that has been cited in over 100 judicial decisions in federal and state courts around the country, including 16 decisions in the Delaware Supreme Court, and for which Steve received a Burton Award for Legal Achievement in 2011, given to lawyers who exhibit excellence in legal writing, in the category “Best Authoritative Book By A Partner In A Law Firm” at a ceremony in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress – one of three Burton Awards for Legal Achievement awarded to Steve during the course of his career.

In 2010, Steve was elected a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the Members Consultative Group for the Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance. In 2015, the National Association of Corporate Directors named Steve to the NACD Directorship 100 in its Governance Professionals and Institutions category, honoring the “most influential people in the boardroom community” who exemplify “knowledge, leadership, and excellence in corporate governance.” In 2023, Steve joined the Board of Advisors of Columbia Law School’s Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership. Steve has served as an adjunct professor teaching corporate governance at Cardozo Law School and Fordham Business School, as co- chair of the American Bar Association Section of Litigation Committee on Corporate Counsel Subcommittee on Corporate Governance, and as a member of the Law360 Securities editorial advisory board.

Steve holds a B.A. with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.