Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler Llp

Clay Pierce is a partner in the firm's litigation department. His practice has included the litigation and arbitration of complex commercial and financial disputes, including fraudulent conveyance, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and business tort matters. He has also handled law firm defense matters, false advertising litigation, and securities and insurance litigation. Mr. Pierce has substantial trial experience representing U.S. and international clients in both federal and state courts around the country. He joined Patterson Belknap as a partner in 2005.

Dana Hiscock, Esq. is a Partner at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, a New York law firm where he specializes in estate planning, estate and trust administration, charitable gift and bequest planning, and tax- exempt organizations matters. He chaired the Board of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies from 2002-2005.

Gregory Diskant is a senior litigation partner at Patterson Belknap, where he served as chair from 1997-2007. As part of his active trial practice, Mr. Diskant regularly tries cases in federal and state courts and before arbitration panels, focusing on complex commercial, securities and intellectual property litigation. He has obtained verdicts totaling more than $2 billion, with five separate verdicts greater than $100 million. In jury trials around the country, Mr. Diskant has successfully represented both plaintiffs and defendants. Two of his jury victories for plaintiffs were cited as major plaintiff's verdicts of the year; two of his jury wins for defendants were cited as major defendant's verdicts of the year. Most recently, in September 2008, he obtained a final judgment of $1.2 billion in a pair of long-running patent infringement suits. Prior to joining Patterson Belknap Mr. Diskant served as Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1976-1980 and Chief Appellate Attorney in 1980. He also served as a Law Clerk to the Hon. Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court of the United States and the Hon. J. Skelly Wright, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.