Warren Stern has been a member of the litigation department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz since 1979, a partner from 1985 to 2009 and now is Of Counsel. At Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Mr. Stern concentrates on corporate and securities litigation, and has been particularly active in cross-border matters and the financial services area.

Mr. Stern is admitted to practice in a number of federal courts around the country, including the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Mr. Stern received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Columbia in 1974 and received his law degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard in 1978, where he served on the Harvard Law Review. Prior to joining Wachtell Lipton, Mr. Stern clerked for the Hon. Henry J. Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Stern was a Covington & Burling Distinguished Visitor and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School in 2008, and will continue to teach securities litigation at Harvard in 2009.  He also has taught securities law at New York Law School and has made a number of presentations on securities law topics before professional organizations. He was named in 2008 as one of Lawdragon's "100 Lawyers You Need to Know in Securities Litigation" and was selected by SuperLawyers in 2009 as a leading New York lawyer in Securities and Business Litigation. 

Mr. Stern is a member of the American Law Institute, the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the New York City Bar Association. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Securities Litigation Report. Mr. Stern's pro bono activities have included human rights work with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and the New York City Bar Association.