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Gideon Sinasohn

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Gideon Sinasohn is a part of a multi-attorney team that focuses on general liability insurance.

Gideon recently concluded an 18-year tenure with the Federal Trade Commission, where he served as a Senior Attorney leading complex investigations and litigation teams targeting deceptive and unfair business practices. During his time at the FTC, Gideon secured more than $60 million in judgments for American consumers. Before entering government service, Gideon represented clients in employment law, personal injury, medical malpractice, and business disputes successfully securing millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for his clients in numerous cases. Gideon’s private law firm successes include significant jury verdicts and settlements against public against public and private entities in employment law and personal injury cases.

Gideon obtained his J.D. from Yeshiva University. Prior to law school, Mr. Sinasohn was a tank platoon leader in Cold-War West-Germany. He earned his B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was named to the Dean’s list for superior academic achievement.

  • Speaker, Military Consumer Protection: Protecting Yourself From Identity Theft & Fraud, September 2025
  • Panelist, Alabama Consumer Protection conversation, January 2024
  • Speaker, La FTC y el IRS-Trabajando Junto Para la Protección del Consumidor Contra el Fraude, December 2020
  • Speaker, Identity Theft-Victim Assistance and Remediation, November 2020
  • Speaker, The FTC’s Used Car Rule, Mississippi Independent Automobile Dealers Association Convention, September 2019
  • Speaker, Senior Protection Panel, August 2019
  • Speaker, Examples of Scams and Resources for Combatting Fraud, August 2019
  • Speaker, The Federal Trade Commission’s Debt Collection Program – Recent Initiatives and Priorities, 14th Annual Credit & Collection News Conference, March 2019
  • Speaker, Recognizing and Combatting Scams, August 2018
  • Speaker, The FTC’s Used Car Rule, 49th Annual Alabama Independent Automobile Dealers Association Convention, July 2018
  • Speaker, Battling Scams and Identity Theft, March 2018
  • Speaker, Data Security from the FTC’s Perspective, 32nd Annual Privacy and Technology Law Institute, October 2017
  • Speaker, Vacaciones de pesadilla – Nightmare vacations , Univision 41 Nueva York – Univision Television, August 2017
  • Speaker, FTC Efforts in Combatting Immigration Scams, August 2016
  • Speaker, FTC Initiatives Relating to Automobile Financing and Advertising,47th Annual Convention of the Alabama Independent Automobile Dealers Association, July 2016
  • Speaker, FTC Efforts in Combatting Immigration Scams, May 2016
  • Speaker, FTC Efforts in Combatting Immigration Scams, April 2016
  • Speaker, FTC Efforts in Combatting Immigration Scams, USCIS Stakeholder Meeting, March 2016
  • Speaker, Economic Empowerment and Identity Theft, August 2015
  • Speaker, Consumer Protection in the Auto Industry, Alabama Independent Automobile Dealers Association 46th Annual Convention, July 2015
  • Speaker, When Scammers Target Students, June 2015
  • Speaker, Identity Theft, May 2015

Admissions

  • California
  • New York
  • Texas
  • District of Columbia

Education

  • J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1990
    • International Law Journal
    • Bet Tzedek Legal Clinic
  • M.P.P., (Anticipated), Georgia State University
  • B.A., Engineering, German, Spanish, and Russian, United States Military Academy at West Point, 1982
    • Dean’s List

Languages

  • German
  • Russian
  • Spanish