Elihu Inselbuch is a member resident in Caplin & Drysdale's New York office, and has been at the firm since 1986.
Mr. Inselbuch's practice consists largely of representing plaintiffs and defendants in a whole range of commercial and tort litigation in federal and state courts. His commercial litigation work has included representation of mass tort victim constituencies in substantial corporate reorganizations, plaintiffs and defendants in securities fraud litigation, and defending product liability claims involving both consumer goods and high technology products. He also has represented a number of prominent figures in connection with congressional hearings and the criminal investigations which flowed from them, including proceedings involving the Watergate Special Prosecutor.
Since 1985, when he was first retained to act for the Asbestos Claimants' Committee in the Manville reorganization, Mr. Inselbuch has gained prominence as one of the nation's leading attorneys in asbestos creditors' rights litigation. Working with the asbestos plaintiffs bar, Mr. Inselbuch has represented their constituency in a number of large bankruptcies and class actions, including Johns Manville, Jim Walter Corp., Raytech Corporation, Babcock & Wilcox, Pittsburgh Corning, Armstrong World Industries, G-I Holdings, W.R. Grace, United States Gypsum, Federal Mogul, Owens Corning, Ortiz v. Fibreboard, North American Refractories Company, Kaiser Aluminum, Global Industrial Technlogies, Combustion Engineering, Dresser (Halliburton), ACandS, Congoleum, Flintkote and Quigley.
Mr. Inselbuch is the Past President of the Princeton University Alumni Association (1993-1995). He also has served numerous times as a panelist for both the American Bar Association and American Arbitration Association, and is called upon regularly as a speaker and panelist at professional gatherings.
Prior to joining Caplin & Drysdale, Mr. Inselbuch was an attorney with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (1963-1966), and was first an associate, then partner, with Gilbert, Segall and Young (1966-1986).