Julien is a successful, experienced civil litigator and trial attorney who manages clients’ potential exposure in the most effective and efficient manner from before a matter’s inception until even after a trial verdict. As a Senior Counsel for the New York City Law Department for nine years, Julien managed a diverse and extensive municipal caseload in the Manhattan and Brooklyn Tort Units before serving as a senior full-time lead trial attorney for six years in the Bronx Tort Unit. Defending the City and its agents in a variety of high-exposure negligence, labor law, intentional tort, and civil rights cases, Julien achieved an excellent record of resolving cases through defense verdicts and dismissals at trial, summary judgment victories, and negotiations of consistently favorable settlements when appropriate. Julien was recognized with a New York City Law Department Division Chief Award for outstanding trial results, and he was selected to teach legal training to fellow Law Department attorneys.
With Harris Beach’s Business and Commercial Litigation Group, Julien applies this experience to counseling corporate and municipal clients and representing them soundly and aggressively in the wide variety of their litigation needs. Julien brings invaluable prior experience as the vice president of a small closely-held corporation where he developed a personal appreciation of the concerns and needs of potential business and commercial clients. It is through this lens that Julien will apply his thorough and effective trial-based deposition, witness preparation, case development, oration, and motion practice skills that allow him to handle each litigation task with the precision necessary to advance continually each client’s position throughout the life of each dispute. Ultimately, Julien’s trial abilities help clients resolve disputes at the most favorable time and in the most successful manner, as he is confident and prepared to excel at trial if necessary.
During law school, Julien supplemented his excellent academic work with a variety of practical experiences that demonstrate his drive to learn and his commitment to the practice of law. Julien served as a judicial intern for the Hon. Michael M. Baylson of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and as an intern with the Antitrust Bureau and Executive Office of the New York State Attorney General’s Office under Andrew Cuomo. Julien also assisted the former Attorney General of New Jersey in counseling the 11th member of the 2011 New Jersey Voting Apportionment Commission; practiced as a student attorney at Rutgers-Newark Law School’s Constitutional Litigation Clinic; and served as an extern in the appellate litigation section of the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS + SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- “Constitutional examination of hate speech web sites: Internet Hate Speech & The First Amendment Revisited,” 37 RUTGERS COMP. TECH. L.J. 223
