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Nancy F. Wechsler is a 1940 graduate of Columbia University Law School, where she was a Kent Scholar, Decisions Editor of the Columbia Law Review and recipient of the 1940 Ordronaux Prize. She is a member of the bar in New York State, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the Southern District and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Following private practice in New York City Ms. Wechsler practiced at a number of government agencies in Washington, DC, from 1942 through 1948, including the Board of Economic Warfare, the Office of Price Administration, the Office of Economic Stabilization and the Department of Labor. In 1946-7 Ms. Wechsler was counsel to President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights and participated in drafting the Committee’s report, "To Secure These Rights."
After returning to New York Ms. Wechsler practiced at Greenbaum Wolf & Ernst until 1982 and until 2001 at Deutsch Klagsbrun & Blasband (formerly Linden & Deutsch). Greenbaum Wolf & Ernst had an extensive intellectual property practice and, as a result of representation of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was the country’s leading firm in the areas of birth control, abortion and related subjects. Ms. Wechsler concentrated on these subjects, counseling clients and participating in litigation involving libel, privacy, copyright, right of publicity, obscenity and other First Amendment areas, as well as constitutional and statutory issues relating to birth control and abortion. Ms. Wechsler was on briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court in New York Times v. Sullivan, Buxton v. Connecticut, Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade.
Ms. Wechsler continued her practice in intellectual property at Deutsch Klagsbrun & Blasband and also expanded work in trademarks, representing publishers, authors, literary estates and agents, and educational organizations in these fields, as well as participating in the firm's enforcement and litigation activities for such clients. Ms. Wechsler and other partners at Deutsch Klagsbrun & Blasband joined McLaughlin & Stern in April of 2001.
She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Copyright Society of the U.S., the International Trademark Association and the American Law Institute. She has been a member of the boards of directors of the New York Civil Liberties Union and the American Civil Liberties Union, was a founding member of the Governing Committee of the ABA Forum Committee on Entertainment and Sports Law and has served on the Communications Committee and the Copyright and Literary Property Committee of the Association of the Bar of City of New York.
Ms. Wechsler lives in New York City and maintains a weekend residence in Westport, Connecticut. | 