Sidney Dickstein, founding partner of Dickstein Shapiro LLP, currently serves as senior counsel for the firm. He began practicing law in 1949, and, with David Shapiro, established the partnership in New York City in 1953. The firm opened a Washington, DC office in 1956, which later became its principal office. For more than fifty years, Mr. Dickstein has helped direct the firm. With his guidance, it has grown from two attorneys into a multiservice law firm with a national and international reach. His practice is extremely diverse, as he has been lead counsel in many major litigation matters in a variety of fields, including antitrust, federal securities, labor, and First Amendment matters, and he argued three of these cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Community Activities

Since 1981, Mr. Dickstein has served on the Board of Trustees of Franklin and Marshall College, of which he is an alumnus. He also is heavily involved in the firm’s longstanding partnership with the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC. He is a member of the board of governors of the American Jewish Committee and served as president of the organization’s Washington, DC chapter.

Bar Admissions

District of Columbia
New York
U.S. Supreme Court

Education

Franklin & Marshall College, A.B., 1947
Columbia Law School, J.D., 1949
Franklin & Marshall College, Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree, 2003