Attorneys

delman@garwingerstein.com

Deborah Elman has been a partner at Garwin Gerstein & Fisher LLP since 2022. With more than two decades of litigation experience, Ms. Elman focuses on representing businesses in high-profile, high-stakes antitrust class actions. She represents institutional clients and individuals in complex civil litigation, including class actions, opt-outs, derivative actions, and arbitrations.

Ms. Elman was selected as a Super Lawyer in 2022, 2023, and 2024, named to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers every year from 2019-2023, and the 2025 inaugural edition of the Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers, and named a “Leading Lawyer” by The Legal 500, with sources describing her as having “expansive knowledge along with [a] calm, professional demeanor [that] instills great confidence.” She is a member of the American Antitrust Institute Advisory Board; Vice President and Founder of the Amicus Committee for the Committee to Support Antitrust Laws (COSAL); a member of the Public Justice Foundation Board of Directors; an Antitrust Section Member of the American Bar Association; and a member of the New York State Bar Association Antitrust Section. She is a frequent speaker on topics involving class actions and expert witnesses and has contributed to such publications as the Fordham Urban Law Journal, the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Journal of Public Health. Prior to joining Garwin Gerstein & Fisher, LLP, Ms. Elman was an associate at two leading New York law firms and served as a law clerk for the Honorable William L. Standish in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Education

University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D., 2001, cum laude, Lead Executive Editor, Journal of Law and Commerce

Columbia University, M.P.H., 1997

Columbia University, B.A., 1995, cum laude

Bar Admissions

New York

Pennsylvania

Court Admissions

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit

Affiliations

Public Justice Foundation: Board of Directors

Committee to Support Antitrust Laws (COSAL): Vice President

American Bar Association: Antitrust Section

New York State Bar Association