Partner

Caren Decter is a partner in the Litigation Group, with nearly 20 years of experience representing clients in the advertising, art, consumer goods, and media and entertainment industries on intellectual property and complex contractual disputes, as well as consumer class actions and white collar criminal matters. She is recognized by Best Lawyers in America (2024) and Super Lawyers (2021-2023) as a leading lawyer in her field.

Clients benefit from her skill in managing complex litigation aggressively and efficiently, as well as her responsiveness and ability to forge creative solutions to complicated problems before they grow into drawn-out litigation.

Her recent work includes:

Obtaining dismissal of copyright claims against the world’s largest online clearinghouse of stock 3D models; Obtaining dismissal on summary judgement of a $30 million art fraud complaint; Representing leading educational publisher in trademark infringement and breach-of-contract litigation against Vanderbilt University; Representing museum in World War II restitution case; Defending numerous clients in consumer class actions and mass arbitrations arising under state and federal law, including the California wiretapping statute (CIPA) the Lanham Act, and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA); Representing advertising agency in connection with a criminal antitrust investgation; and Drafting U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith discussing the impact of the fair use ruling on documentary filmmakers.

Ms. Decter takes on significant pro bono matters. The Anti-Defamation League awarded Ms. Decter and several of her colleagues the Edward Brodsky Founders Award in recognition of their work on an amicus brief arguing against President Trump’s travel ban.

Ms. Decter is on the Board of Directors for the New York County Lawyers Association Foundation and a member of the Federal Courts Committee of the NYC Bar Association. Prior to joining Frankfurt Kurnit, Ms. Decter was an attorney with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, where she represented clients in complex commercial litigations. She also clerked for the Honorable Colleen McMahon, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

She is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, and the federal courts in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the District of New Jersey, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

University of California, Berkeley School of Law (J.D.)

Washington University in St. Louis (B.A., summa cum laude)