Amer S Ahmed Attorney

About Amer S Ahmed Attorney

Amer S. Ahmed is a senior litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Litigation; Appellate and Constitutional Law; and Media, Entertainment and Technology Practice Groups. Mr. Ahmed’s practice focuses on representing institutional and individual clients in a variety of high-profile litigation matters at the investigatory, trial, and appellate levels, ranging from witness preparation to product-liability actions, white-collar criminal defense, and commercial disputes. He recently helped secure the reversal on appeal of a multi-million dollar punitive damages verdict in a failure-to-warn case, as well as the dismissals of a billion-dollar ERISA case in New York federal court and RICO allegations in California. Mr. Ahmed also has significant experience handling defamation lawsuits as counsel for both defendants and plaintiffs. In addition, he engages in substantial pro bono and volunteer efforts at Gibson Dunn, resolving satisfactorily a copyright-infringement suit brought on behalf of a Brooklyn-based artist and obtaining asylum in the United States for a Syrian refugee. Mr. Ahmed is a member of Gibson Dunn’s New York Diversity Committee. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the District of Columbia, as well as in the Supreme Court of the United States; the United States Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Second Circuit, and Fourth Circuit; the United States District Court for the District of Columbia; and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.