McLaughlin & Stern, LLP

Biography

Aimee Saginaw is a Partner in the Litigation, Employment, and Alternative Dispute Resolution Departments at McLaughlin & Stern. Her practice focuses on federal and state trial and appellate litigation in the commercial, employment, constitutional, civil rights, and First Amendment/media law contexts.

Within the last few years, Ms. Saginaw has taken to trial or settled several significant commercial and employment matters, initiated a successful First Amendment challenge to art censorship, quashed a subpoena seeking to expose an award-winning journalist's confidential sources, and litigated numerous constitutional actions, among them a due process action on behalf of September 11th family members and a challenge to the government's use of eminent domain, both of which resulted in Ms. Saginaw's authorship of petitions for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. Saginaw has a particular specialty in appellate matters, and, between September 2010 and January 2011, was one of only 14 women, out of 207 attorneys in total, to argue a commercial appeal before New York's Appellate Division, First Department. She was also recently named one of the Best 40 U.S. Lawyers Under 40 by the National LGBT Bar.

Ms. Saginaw is also experienced in alternative dispute resolution and has represented clients in numerous arbitration and mediation proceedings. A certified mediator herself, Ms. Saginaw serves on mediation panels for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, the New York State Unified Court System, the New York Peace Institute, and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. She is also a member of the American Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section and Mediators Beyond Borders.

Prior to entering law school, Ms. Saginaw enjoyed a successful journalism career at the Wall Street Journal. As an attorney, she has advocated for press freedom and co-authored an amicus brief to the New York Court of Appeals in support of allowing cameras in courtrooms. Ms. Saginaw also served as a Reporter for the World Press Freedom Committee's Conference on Internet Press Freedom, belongs to the American Bar Association's Forum on Communications Law, and co-Chairs the ABA's Women in Communications Law New York chapter.

Ms. Saginaw is a magna cum laude graduate of Barnard College, where she was a Truman Scholar Finalist, and a Dean's List graduate of Fordham University Law School, where she was a Stein Scholar and captained the Constitutional Law Moot Court team to the national finals. Upon graduating from law school, she served as a law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit before entering private practice.

Ms. Saginaw is admitted in New York, Massachusetts, and Washington, DC, and before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. A native New Yorker, Ms. Saginaw continues to reside in Manhattan and is involved with a number of charitable and cultural institutions.