John C. Leddy

Overview

John C. Leddy is a senior associate in Nutter’s Litigation Department. He advises clients on a wide range of global complex commercial litigation with a particular focus on the real estate, banking and insurance industries.

John represents clients from the boardroom to the courtroom, providing strategic advice on important business decisions and representing clients through trial. Clients often engage John for actions stemming from complex real estate-related matters, joint venture and partnership disputes, as well as land use and construction related litigation. John’s practice takes him nationwide, with recent actions in Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota, among others. John also litigates in international arbitrations and has overseen international disputes for various clients.

In addition, John has extensive experience representing clients in insurance and reinsurance coverage disputes, regulatory compliance actions, and multinational reinsurance transactions. This includes representing traditional insurance carriers, businesses with significant self-insured retentions, owners of single parent-captive insurance companies, and members of group captives, risk purchasing groups, and risk retention groups.

Notable Recent Experience and Client Impact

Obtained eight figure judgment on behalf of not-for-profit client against former officers and directors for breaches of not-for-profit law and fiduciary duties.
Obtained dismissal of claims against New York chartered bank in warehouse mortgage lending matter.
Obtained favorable arbitration result on behalf of biotech client in dispute over intellectual property rights and accounting practices in pharmaceutical development matter.
Conducted internal investigation into potential insider trading relative to large public merger.
Obtained summary judgment in New York labor law matter stemming from large construction project in Manhattan.
Assisted in settlement of various shareholder disclosure claims related to recent merger.

Prior to joining Nutter, John was a litigation associate in the New York office of a national law firm. Before that, he was an associate at a boutique litigation firm in Boston.

During law school, John clerked for a Fortune 100 multinational insurance carrier in the litigation and coverage practice groups. In addition, he interned at the Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor and the National Mediation Board. John also helped low-income families by serving as a student attorney at the Boston College Civil Litigation Clinic.

Education & Admissions

Education

Boston College Law School, J.D.
Trinity College, B.A.

Admissions

Massachusetts
New Jersey
New York
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

Practices

Industries

In the Community

John is a member of the New York City Bar Association and the Irish American Bar Association of New York. John is also a class agent, and proud alumnus, of Belmont Hill School.