Muhammad U. Faridi

Muhammad Faridi is a Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations partner at Linklaters LLP. Muhammad serves as President of the New York City Bar Association, one of the most powerful and prestigious bar associations in the U.S.  He is the youngest person and the first ever Muslim-American to serve in the role. As President of the City Bar, Muhammad established a Presidential Task Force on Digital Technologies and Artificial Intelligence, bringing together over 150 members from law, academia, business and government.

Mr. Faridi has been recognized by several professional associations and organizations. He was named a “2018 Rising Star” by the New York Law Journal, which “recognizes the region’s most promising lawyers who are no older than 40.” He was also named to Benchmark Litigation’s 2017 “Under 40 Hotlist” of practitioners who “have been deemed most promising emerging talent in their respective litigation communities in the US and Canadian litigation community by peers and clients.”

Mr. Faridi has also written extensively on commercial litigation in New York. He is the co-editor of Commercial Division Practice Guide (Bloomberg), a treatise that seeks to provide guidance on the process of litigation in the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court, a court established to enhance the quality of judicial adjudication and to improve efficiency in the case management of commercial disputes in New York. Mr. Faridi is also a contributor to the American Bar Association Section of Business Law's annual review of business courts in the United States.

Mr. Faridi is a founding contributor to Patterson Belknap’s blog, www.NYCommercialDivisionBlog.com, covering developments related to practice and case law in the Commercial Division and commercial cases in New York appellate courts. Prior to joining Patterson Belknap, Mr. Faridi served as a law clerk to Judge Jack B. Weinstein, Senior U.S. District Judge in the Eastern District of New York.

Education

City University of New York School of Law (J.D., 2007)
John Jay College of Criminal Justice (B.A., summa cum laude, 2004)