About
MS. ORLIN RELOCATED HER PRIMARY LEGAL RESIDENCE FROM SOUTH FLORIDA TO NORTHERN NEW JERSEY IN MARCH 2019, CONTINUES TO MAINTAIN HER LAW FIRM'S VIRTUAL OFFICE IN SOUTH FLORIDA, AND IS ADMITTED TO PRACTICE LAW IN NEW YORK AND FLORIDA.
Ms. Orlin provides forensic consulting, litigation support, and expert witness services to attorneys and law firms in entity governance and fiduciary duty, and attorneys' ethical and fiduciary duties, standard of care, and unlicensed practice of law, not securities law or handwriting analysis.
Denying defendant's motion for summary judgment in a legal malpractice case pending in the Circuit Court in the State of South Dakota, the judge said, "[Plaintiff's] expert, Miss Orlin, says. . . that the rules of ethics talk about clients and former clients and if you know that you've committed malpractice that injured a former client. . . it's a continuing tort if you don't inform the former client."
U.S News & World Report quoted and relied upon Ms. Orlin in its article entitled, "What Does 'Of Counsel' Mean?" published on November 6, 2023:
https://law.usnews.com/law-firms/advice/articles/what-does-of-counsel-mean
Ms. Orlin, licensed in New York and Florida, is member of the Professional Responsibility Committee (also served on that committee 2015-2018) and Professional Discipline Committee, former affiliate member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, former member of the Task Force on the Rule of Law, Task Force for the Independence of Lawyers and Judges, Professional Ethics Committee, Small Law Firm Committee, Senior Lawyers Committee, and Securities Regulation Committee, and former Co-Chair of the Corporate Mentoring Circle, of the New York City Bar Association; member and former Chair, Vice Chair, and Co-Vice Chair of the Corporations, Securities, and Financial Services Committee, member of its opinion report and business entity and securities statutory revision subcommittees, former member of the Executive Council of the Business Law Section, former member of the Professional Ethics Committee, and former member and Vice Chair of the Committee on Relations with CPAs and FICPA, of The Florida Bar; member of the Business Law Section, its Dispute Resolution Committee, its Professional Responsibility Committee, and its Rule of Law Working Group Committee, the Section of Dispute Resolution, its Advisory Committee, its Arbitration Committee, its Ethics Committee, its Ombuds Committee, and its Technology Committee, and the Senior Lawyers Division, Chair of its Ethics and Professionalism Committee, and former Chair and Co-Vice Chair of its Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, of the American Bar Association; former member, New York State Bar Association and its Not-For-Profit Corporations Law Committee; and former member, Broward County Bar Association in Florida.
She also is a member of the New York Regional Expert Witness Association.
She is a member of her solo practice law firm. Before June 2008, she was partner, senior attorney, or of counsel of law firms, and organized and was General Legal Counsel and Associate Counsel to financial institutions.
She was instructor of “Corporations,” St. Thomas University School of Law, Miami, FL, legal ethics and paralegal studies, The Law Center, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL, and BramsonORT College, New York, NY, and presented “Opinion Letters after 2001 ABA Guidelines” and seminars and webinars regarding entity governance, fiduciary duty and legal ethics in llcs and not-for-profit entities, mergers, acquisitions and securities law, and arbitration. A comprehensive list of her publications is included in her resume posted in this profile.
She is licensed to practice law in Florida and New York, in U.S. District Courts for Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and, before 2014, in U.S. Court of Appeals for Second Circuit although she has not practiced in any court since 1980.
A.B. summa cum laude in mathematics U. Pennsylvania, J.D. Harvard Law School.
Ms. Orlin is a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Dispute Resolution Public Arbitrator (Northeast Region), Chair Status: Qualified, and a Panelist--American Arbitration Association National Roster of Arbitrators (Commercial and Consumer cases).
References in this listing to "expertise" mean and refer to areas in which Ms. Orlin concentrates her forensic consulting and litigation support services, and do not represent Ms. Orlin as an "expert" as that term is used in the Rules of Professional Conduct applicable to attorneys licensed to practice law in the State of Florida or the State of New York.
To date, to the best of her knowledge, all cases in which Ms. Orlin served as expert witness settled, some of them after delivery to her attorney clients of her expert opinions documents in the respective cases, on terms favorable to the clients of those attorney clients.
Ms. Orlin shall have no obligation or responsibility to, and her law firm shall have no obligation or responsibility to cause her to, appear at in-person depositions, hearings, or other meetings or gatherings. If she decides to appear in person at any deposition, hearing, or other meeting or gathering, she may, in her sole, absolute, and unreviewable judgment and discretion, wear one or more masks, which may include an N95 mask and a surgical mask.