Get to Know Our Team of Litigation Experts
Andrew T. Solomon, Partner
Andrew T. Solomon has been a litigator and trial lawyer for more than 25 years. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from Washington University in St. Louis, Andrew attended Columbia University Law School.
He graduated in 1995, was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a member of the Columbia University Business Law Review. After graduating, Andrew worked for two years as a litigator with Graham & James LLP, where he was an associate with Jennifer Cramer.
After Graham & James, he served as the general counsel of a securitization servicing and investing firm. In 1999, he returned to Sullivan & Worcester LLP ("S&W"). In his 17 years at S&W, Andrew headed up the firm’s litigation practice group and served on important partner committees, including partner compensation, lateral partner hiring, and associate hiring.
Andrew is a general litigator but has had significant experience in the following areas: FINRA and SEC defense, securities litigation, real estate disputes (including complex foreclosures), legal and accounting and auditor malpractice, inter-partner disputes in small business and joint ventures, bank loan enforcement and defense, non-compete, and general employment contract litigation, distributor disputes, and select white collar criminal matters.
Andrew has a national practice, having litigated in courts and arbitration proceedings in numerous states, including New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Florida, California, Nebraska, and Texas. He has tried jury and nonjury cases to verdict.
He volunteers at Columbia University for moot court and trial practice matters. He has served as a volunteer arbitrator in the small claims part of the New York County District Court.
He has lectured numerous times, including having run several CLE programs for lawyers on contract law, successor liability, and antitrust. For fun, Andrew roots for the NY Giants, bikes, skis, coaches, reads history, travels, enjoys scuba diving, and spends as much time with his family as possible.
Education
- Columbia University Law School, J.D., 1995 Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, Columbia Business Law Review
- Washington University in St. Louis, B.S.B.A. – Accounting and Finance, Magna Cum Laude, 1992
Bar Admissions
- New York
- New Jersey
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States
Memberships
- NYC Bar Association
- NYC Bar Association, State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction Committee (2023-2026)
Publications, Papers, & Lectures
- United States: When Your “Client” Is Your Company’s Investor, How Is Attorney-Client Privilege Applied? (mondaq.com)
- Is Discovery of Private Facebook Postings on Equal Footing with General Discovery Principles? (Client Advisory Newsletter)
- The Need for Speed: The Delaware Rapid Arbitration Act (www.lexology.com)
- Caveat Employer Part Two: The Second Circuit Articulates a New Test in Intern v. Employee Debate: The “Primary Beneficiary Test.” (Client Advisory Newsletter)
- Attention In-House Attorneys: Don’t Throw Your Timesheets Away (Client Advisory Newsletter)
- Caveat Employers: Unpaid Interns Could Be Costly (Client Advisory Newsletter)
- Using Benchmarks to Manage Litigation (www.acc.com)
- CLE Lectures, Contract Law (ACC Israel, June 2016), Contract Law, ACC Annual Conference New Orleans (2015), Antitrust Basics, New York Law Concerning Joint Ventures and Agreement to Agree (ACC Israel, June 2010)
Honors & Civic Activities
- The Legal 500 U.S. (2015, 1016)
- Participant, Columbia University Law School Moot Court Program
Jennifer G. Cramer, Partner
Jennifer G. Cramer graduated from Cornell University (With Distinction in All Subjects, Phi Beta Kappa), and attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she was a Legal Writing Instructor.
Upon graduation in 1992, she worked as a litigator for a national law firm in Philadelphia before moving to New York City where she worked for Graham & James LLP with Andrew Solomon on complex commercial litigation matters.
Jennifer then moved her practice to Boston and worked at a boutique intellectual property law firm, where she litigated patent, copyright, and trademark disputes and prosecuted trademark and copyright claims before the Patent and Trademark Office in Washington, D.C.
Before forming Solomon & Cramer LLP in 2017 (now Solomon Cramer & Summit LLP), Jennifer was the founder and owner of LegalWrite101, a legal writing consulting business. She also served as an Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing at Loyola University Law School in Chicago and has taught legal writing as an accredited New York CLE provider.
Jennifer is admitted to practice in New York and Illinois and has substantial experience litigating in state and federal courts throughout the United States and in arbitration proceedings.
She has represented clients in general business and employment disputes, including shareholder and business partner disputes, securities fraud, breach of contract, real estate, and business tort actions.
Jennifer also volunteers her time on behalf of Cornell University as an Alumni Ambassador and has served on numerous non-profit boards in various executive roles in her community. In her free time, Jennifer plays paddle tennis, studies conversational Hebrew, enjoys the theater, and is an avid travel soccer fan.
Education
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., 1992, Legal Writing Instructor
- Cornell University, B.A., with Distinction in All Subjects, Phi Beta Kappa, 1989
Bar Admissions
- New York
- Illinois
- Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C. (inactive)
Court Admissions
- US. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Memberships
- Chicago Bar Association
Paul E. Summit, Partner
Paul E. Summit has been a litigator for over 40 years. He has a national practice that includes complex civil litigation and white-collar criminal defense.
Paul grew up in Merrick, Long Island, and went to Harvard as an undergraduate, and then Columbia Law School. In between, he was a young staffer on the Senate Watergate Committee.
After law school, he clerked for the Hon. Joseph L. Tauro, a federal district judge in Boston (D. Mass.); and then joined a boutique litigation firm in NYC.
After four years, he became an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (criminal side), prosecuting cases of business fraud, terrorism and political corruption.
After five years as a federal prosecutor, he joined a large law firm, Graham & James LLP, as a partner in NYC. There, he worked closely with two younger lawyers, Andrew Solomon and Jennifer Cramer (professional and personal bonds that have brought him now into Solomon Cramer & Summit LLP).
After about a decade with Graham & James LLP, Paul joined Sullivan & Worcester LLP in its Boston office, serving for a number of years on its Management Committee and as head of litigation. Andrew Solomon also joined Sullivan & Worcester LLP, becoming a partner in the NY office and eventually head of litigation.
Paul has a national practice, having appeared in complex, high stakes cases in numerous states. He has tried dozens of cases to verdict, both jury and non-jury; federal and state; courtroom and arbitration. (He has also served as an arbitrator himself). He has lectured on numerous aspects of civil and criminal practice; and participated in Continuing Legal Education panels.
He has served on Committees of the NYC Bar Association. Also, from 2012 to 2015, he was a member of the ABA’s Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary, evaluating the credentials of potential nominees to the United States Supreme Court, the federal Courts of Appeal, and the federal District Courts, providing confidential reports to the White House. He recently resumed his work with the Standing Committee when they were overwhelmed with nominees.
He also devotes substantial time to pro bono work with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (in particular, with the Marshall Motley Scholars Program), and the New England Innocence Project.
He has residences in Boston and NYC, and splits his time between those cities.
For fun, he hangs out with his family, reads history, plays with his puppy, skis very poorly, and volunteers with political and civic campaigns.
Education
- Columbia University Law School, J.D., Kent Scholar, Law Review
- Harvard University, B.A.
Bar Admissions
- New York
- New Jersey
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Clark A. Freeman, Partner
Clark A. Freeman started his legal career at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York where he represented clients in a wide range of civil litigation matters, including numerous high-profile cases relating to mortgage-backed securities and the fallout from the 2008 financial crisis.
Clark left Paul, Weiss to clerk, first for the Honorable Lewis A. Kaplan, District Judge for the Southern District of New York, and then for the Honorable Jonathan Lippman, Chief Judge for New York’s highest court, the New York Court of Appeals.
Clark then moved to Boston and joined the firm of Sullivan & Worcester LLP where he worked on an exceptionally broad array of matters, from defending against shareholder derivative suits to representing reorganized debtors in claims litigation in bankruptcy court, to prosecuting copyright and trademark infringement claims, to representing defendants charged with felony drug charges in federal district court. After three years in Boston, Clark moved back to New York and joined Solomon & Cramer LLP (now Solomon Cramer & Summit LLP) in 2022.
Prior to law school, Clark served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Niger as a Youth and Education Volunteer.
Education
- Cornell Law School, J.D., Magna Cum Laude, 2011 Cornell Law Review, Order of the Coif, Dean’s List
- Yale University, B.A., Political Science, 2006
Bar Admissions
- New York
- Massachusetts
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit