The Honorable Faith Hochberg is a nationally recognized former Federal Judge, United States Attorney, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, known for her broad expertise in complex corporate, patent, securities, antitrust, insurance, banking and employment litigation, as well as her substantial experience in handling multi-district [“MDL”] and mass tort litigation and arbitration. She is also highly knowledgeable about the processes of federal and state regulatory agencies and Cabinet Departments.

In 2015, after 15 years of judicial service, Judge Hochberg left the bench to found Hochberg ADR, LLC, which provides mediation, arbitration, and mock court exercises in high profile, complex matters in national and international litigation. Judge Hochberg has served as a court-appointed Monitor in international cybersecurity cases, and regularly serves as a court-appointed Special Master in both federal and state court cases, including complex consolidated cases as well as MDL cases. She has been jointly selected by parties to serve as a neutral Mediator in more than 300 cases and been selected as a neutral Arbitrator—- serving as Chair, Wing, or Sole Arbitrator—- in more than 100 cases. The cases in which Judge Hochberg serves as a Neutral span the breadth of her legal expertise.

Judge Hochberg is a distinguished neutral admitted to the rosters of the AAA, ICDR, ICC, WIPO [World Intellectual Property Organization], SIAC, CPR; and Hochberg ADR also administers ad hoc arbitrations when requested. She was elected as a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators in 2018, and as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 2019. Her expertise broadly spans many areas of law: class actions, mass actions, corporate contract, insurance, banking & financial institutions, securities, antitrust, trade secrets, pharmaceutical development and licensing, patent and other intellectual property litigation and licensing, merger and acquisition transactions, partnership disputes, corporate governance, and many more.

Judge Hochberg was twice nominated by the President, and confirmed by the Senate, first as United States Attorney and then as a United States District Judge. She was also a top U.S. Treasury Department official, selected to be the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

During her tenure on the federal bench, Judge Hochberg presided over thousands of federal cases, including large class actions, securities, banking, patent and intellectual property, pharmaceutical intellectual property and licensing, antitrust, insurance, ERISA, corporate contract, construction related disputes, employment and partnership disputes, and many more. The Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation appointed her 6 times to preside over large national multi-district cases filed across the country and consolidated to be managed by Judge Hochberg as a Transferee Judge. She has presided over more than one hundred patent cases.

Judge Hochberg has been invited to speak nationwide and abroad numerous times, where the subject matter covered a broad range of subjects, reflecting the breadth of her acknowledged experience: intellectual property, licensing, mass torts, antitrust, and many more subject matter areas of U.S. litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution [ADR]. While her speaking engagements are too numerous to list, they include by way of example, the MDL Transferee Judges’ Conference in 2014 and again in 2024; Harris Martin Mass Torts Conference in 2014; a major U.K. Conference on Competition [Antitrust] law in 2013; Intellectual Property Owners’ national conference in 2014; , conference addressing AI and Trade Secrets in 2024; Panels on financial and banking regulation; speaking about Department of Justice priorities during her tenure as U.S. Attorney; and more. A representative listing of just a few of Judge Hochberg’s many public speaking engagements, as well as a short list of representative matters can be found in the links on this website.

Judge Hochberg was invited to sit by designation on the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and she served as a Patent Pilot Judge with special expertise in this complex area of law. She has served as a co‐chair of the Judges Committee of the Federal Circuit Bar Association. In 2015, she was honored as the first Fellow of the Innovation Center for Law and Technology at New York Law School. She also serves on the Center’s Advisory Board. Judge Hochberg previously served two terms on the Board of Trustees of the Lasker Foundation, acclaimed for its prominence in promoting pathbreaking research in science and medicine. She has received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws and has been honored by the International Women’s Forum; the Harvard Law School Women’s Alliance; Seton Hall Law School; and numerous federal agencies. Judge Hochberg is a member of the American Law Institute [ALI].

Prior to ascending to the bench, Judge Hochberg was nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, managing prosecution and civil enforcement strategy and operations of that large public office, managing nearly 200 Assistant U.S. Attorneys and staff. She was selected by the Attorney General to serve on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, which advises the Justice Department on its initiatives and policy matters.

As Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury Department, Judge Hochberg spearheaded the U.S. Government’s multinational tactics to combat money laundering and was responsible for oversight of the Treasury Department’s enforcement agencies, including the Office of Foreign Assets Control [OFAC], the Bank Secrecy Office, FINCEN, as well as Secret Service, U.S. Customs Service and other law enforcement agencies. She was the representative of the United States to the O.E.C.D. in Paris.

Judge Hochberg has developed risk management and civil regulatory enforcement criteria for financial institutions during her service as Senior Deputy Chief Counsel of the OTS, [now within the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency] to handle the policy and enforcement actions of that Office during the clean up of the Savings & Loan banking crisis in the early1990’s.

Judge Hochberg received her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude and was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. She graduated, summa cum laude, from Tufts University, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She also attended the London School of Economics.