Liam A. Fine is a litigation associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn. His practice focuses on complex and high-stakes commercial litigation for clients across a range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, and technology.
Liam also maintains an active pro bono practice focused largely on constitutional claims and gun safety. In 2024, Liam helped represent the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence in a successful administrative law challenge seeking to compel the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to sufficiently regulate AR-style “ghost guns.”
Liam served as a law clerk to the Honorable Naomi Reice Buchwald of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 2024 to 2025.
Liam received his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School in 2023, where he was recognized as both a James Kent and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Liam also served as the Media Editor of the Columbia Law Review, which published his Note on climate resilience in the electric utility industry.
Prior to law school, Liam worked as an investment banking analyst at Lazard, where he focused on Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Restructurings in the Power, Energy, and Infrastructure sectors. Liam received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College in 2017, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and double majored in Economics and Political Science.
Liam is a member of the New York Bar and is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Capabilities
- Litigation
- Appellate and Constitutional Law
- Crisis Management
- Energy Regulation and Litigation
- Energy and Infrastructure
- Environmental Litigation and Mass Tort
- Geopolitical Strategy and International Law
- Securities Enforcement
- Securities Litigation
- White Collar Defense and Investigations
Credentials
Education:
- Columbia University - 2023 Juris Doctor
- Amherst College - 2017 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- New York Bar
Clerkships:
- USDC, Southern District of New York, Hon. Naomi R. Buchwald, 2024 - 2025