Biography

Mr. Sussman is a Partner of the Firm and the Chair of the Firm’s litigation practice group. He joined the Firm in 2021 and represents clients in complex commercial and real estate litigation in New York and New Jersey state and federal courts as well as in arbitration. He works with clients to understand their needs and resolve their disputes practically and efficiently, both inside and outside the courtroom.

Joshua represents a diverse client base in an array of disputes, including closely-held and family-owned companies and small businesses, healthcare providers and physicians, and real estate holding companies. His litigation practice focuses on ownership and management disputes and breakups, including dissolution, valuation, corporate books and records requests, shareholder derivative suits, and receivership, restrictive covenant litigation, commercial real estate disputes, including commercial foreclosure, commercial summary proceedings, and Yellowstone litigation, bankruptcy, unfair competition and trade secret misappropriation, and prosecuting and defending breach of contract claims.
Joshua is admitted to practice in the States of New York and New Jersey and the United States District Courts and Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey.

Prominent Matters

• Won jury trial verdict on behalf of laboratory defeating $20M claim for breach of a nondisclosure agreement and tortious interference with business relationships
• Won money judgment after bench trial on claim for breach of professional services agreement and account stated
• Won money judgment after bench trial on behalf of landlord on claim for nonpayment of rent and additional rent, and defeated counterclaim for breach of a joint venture agreement and constructive eviction
• Enforced nationwide restrictive covenant against salespersons on behalf of company under criminal indictment
• Won judgment dismissing Real Estate Investment Trust’s claim for renewal of commercial ground lease, resulting in a multi-million dollar recovery for fee owner/ground lessor
• Won award dismissing claim against sponsor and general partners of private invest fund for breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and breach of contract
• Won money judgment in favor of seller enforcing asset sale agreement’s reconciliation provisions
• Won judgment dismissing $20M fraud claims related to foreign real estate investment on collateral estoppel grounds
• Won judgment dismissing claim for aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty after successfully evicting commercial tenant from leased premises
• Won money judgment on behalf of commercial landlord seeking unpaid rent and additional rent
• Won judgment ejecting commercial tenant from leased premises
• Defeated claim for trademark infringement against prior business owner
• Successfully dismissed claim for breach of oral partnership agreement on statute of frauds grounds
• Reversed trial court’s decision affirming and adopting referee’s report and recommendation on grounds that the report was unsupported by the hearing record

Published Works

• WEISS ZARETT ADDS JOSHUA SUSSMAN AS SHAREHOLDER
• JOSHUA SUSSMAN ELEVATED TO PARTNER
• GOOGLE WINS-CLIENT PRIVILEGE DISPUTE, COURT FINDS ATTORNEY SILENT COMMUNICATIONS ARE PRIVILEGED
• COMMERCIAL LITIGATION: ENFORCING EMPLOYEE NON-COMPETE CLAUSES
• NEW YORK STATE’S NEWLY-ANNOUNCED VACCIENT MANDATE POLICY FOR HEALTHCARE ENTITIES
• WEISS ZARETT WELCOMES JOSHUA SUSSMAN, ESQ.
• COMMERCIAL LANDLORD-TENANT LAW UPDATE
• NO FAULT FRAUD AND CIVIL RICO LAWSUITS
• FTC NON-COMPETE BAN SET ASIDE