Pierre Ciric, Esq.
Member of the Firm, The Ciric Law Firm, PLLC

Pierre Ciric is a founding partner of the Ciric Law Firm, PLLC. Pierre represents French, American and European businesses, non-profits, and individuals in the United States before American jurisdictions. He specializes in commercial litigation, cultural heritage law, non-profit law, as well as trust and estate law. 

A Parisian with an M.B.A. from one of France’s most prestigious business schools, “École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris,” Pierre not only has a nuanced understanding of how businesses grow through strategic foresight but also a keen sense of how best to bring business cultures together successfully.

Prior to founding the Ciric Law Firm, PLLC, he held senior marketing and financial control positions in the United States at Pfizer, Inc., Sterling Winthrop, and Sanofi-Aventis. Pierre also gained significant litigation experience at Proskauer Rose, where he represented health-care clients against New York regulatory authorities. Pierre also acquired significant class action litigation experience at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, representing low-income families, individuals, and communities in litigating their rights to certain federal benefit programs, such as Medicaid or food stamps. 

Pierre is currently the Vice President of the French American Bar Association, a non-profit bar association based in New York gathering a large number of Franco-American lawyers and jurists across all United States. Pierre is also a member of the Professional Ethics Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association and a board member of the New York Law School Alumni Association.

Pierre received his juris doctorate summa cum laude from New York Law School where he was an Executive Board Member and Notes Editor of the New York Law School Review.

Due to his vast knowledge and expertise in cultural heritage law, Pierre has been interviewed by a number of daily and weekly news outlets over the years, such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, the BBC, and others.

Recent Publications & Speaking Engagements

• Pierre Ciric, Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Are Public Accounting Firms Subject to Diverging Standards of Conduct between Federal Courts and the PCAOB in Securities Fraud Claims?, 9 J. Bus. & Tech. L. 229 (2014), available at: http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/jbtl/vol9/iss2/5.

• Pierre Ciric, How I Convinced the French Supreme Court to Cancel the First French Legislative Elections in the United States, 10 S.C. Int’l L. & Bus. 272 (2014).

• Pierre Ciric. How the French Supreme Court Annulled the First French Legislative Elections in the United States, Bocconi Legal Papers - A Student-Edited Journal No. 2013-01-IT (2013), available at: http://works.bepress.com/bocconi_legal_papers/45.

• Pierre Ciric, Why Ronald Lauder is Right About Nazi-Looted Art in Museums, artnet News, Jul. 16, 2014, available at http://news.artnet.com/art-world/why-ronald-lauder-is-right-about-nazi-looted-art-in-museums-62452.

• Pierre Ciric, Opinion: Hopi and Navajo Masks Auction Precedent in France Is Dangerous, artnet News, Jul. 25, 2014, available at http://news.artnet.com/art-world/opinion-hopi-and-navajo-masks-auction-precedent-in-france-is-dangerous-66975.

• CLE Program, Due Diligence In Cultural Heritage Litigation: Is There a Minimum Legal Threshold? October 11, 2013, The Leo Baeck Institute, 4 CLE Credits.

•  CLE Program, Latest Developments in The Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in the United States, October 16, 2014, The Center for International Law at New York Law School and the French-American Bar Association, Seminar, How to Launch and Grow an International Law Practice, 4 CLE Credits.

• CLE Program, US tribal art Claims versus the French Auction Houses & French Courts: the Hopi Case, June 5, 2015, New York University School of Professional Studies, Conference, Art Crime and Cultural Heritage: Fakes, Forgeries, and Looted and Stolen Art, 2.5 CLE Credits.