Alex Pisarevsky

Alex Pisarevsky practices primarily in the fields of complex commercial litigation and debtor-creditor litigation. Within these areas, he has successfully represented clients in individual, class, and collective actions in such diverse matters as consumer fraud, wage and hour, bankruptcy, and business transactions and litigation.

Mr. Pisarevsky has litigated matters that have been the subject of published opinions in both state and federal court. In addition, he has represented clients in commercial and wage and hour matters before the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Pisarevsky has successfully arbitrated more than 40 cases as lead counsel, including multiple contested hearings through verdict.

Mr. Pisarevsky is Second Vice Chair of the Securities Law Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association. He is also a member of the E-Discovery Committee and the Internet and Computer Law Committee of the Bergen County Bar Association. He has spoken on topics including net neutrality and e-discovery.

A Russian speaker, Mr. Pisarevsky started at Cohn Lifland as a law clerk in 2007 and joined the firm as an associate the following year. He is a graduate of the Justice Morris Pashman American Inn of Court.

Mr. Pisarevsky graduated from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he was the Managing Editor of the Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal and Co-President of the Russian Law Students' Association. While in law school, he spent a semester in the Prosecutor Practicum, a competitively-selected full-time internship with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. At the Manhattan DA's Office, he worked in a general trial bureau and successfully prosecuted a narcotics eviction case.

Mr. Pisarevsky was included in (201) Magazine's list of Bergen County's "Top Lawyers" in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, in Labor & Employment and Bankruptcy. Alex was named a “Rising Star” in 2019 by Super Lawyers in Employment & Labor.