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Edward Y. Kroub
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Edward Kroub Brings a Billion-Dollar Litigation Résumé to the Fight for Individual Rights
When you’re taking on a large employer or a powerful corporation, it can feel like the odds are stacked against you before the case even begins. Companies have teams of lawyers, deep financial resources, and carefully crafted legal strategies designed to protect their interests. Edward Y. Kroub has spent his career proving that individuals can successfully challenge even the largest institutions when they have the right advocate standing beside them.
Before co-founding Mizrahi Kroub LLP, Kroub built his reputation handling some of the nation’s most sophisticated class action litigation. As Partner and Vice Chairman of the Securities Litigation Department at Lovell Stewart Halebian Jacobson LLP, he helped lead landmark cases involving global financial benchmark manipulation that recovered more than $600 million for injured parties. Over the course of his career, the matters he has helped lead have produced more than $1 billion in settlements. He has even argued before the United States Supreme Court, a distinction achieved by very few attorneys. For consumers, that level of experience means their employment or civil rights case is being handled by a lawyer who has already stood toe-to-toe with some of the most powerful corporations and financial institutions in the world.
Today, Kroub brings that same courtroom experience to representing employees facing wrongful termination, workplace discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage theft, and hostile work environments. He has also become a recognized leader in litigation involving the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), successfully holding major corporations accountable when their digital platforms fail to provide equal access for people with disabilities. Whether preparing a case for trial or negotiating a resolution, he approaches every matter with the same strategic discipline that defined his years handling high-stakes commercial litigation.
His work has earned consistent recognition throughout the legal profession, including consecutive selections to the New York Super Lawyers list from 2023 through 2026. He is also regularly sought out by national media to discuss developments in employment law, digital privacy, and consumer rights, reflecting the respect he has earned both inside and outside the courtroom.
For consumers, however, the strongest endorsement comes from the people who have trusted him during some of the most difficult moments of their careers. His firm maintains an impressive 4.7-star Google rating across more than 160 reviews, with clients consistently praising the firm’s responsiveness, professionalism, and unwavering commitment to their cases. Rather than overwhelming clients with legal jargon, Kroub is frequently recognized for explaining complex legal issues in a way that gives people confidence during uncertain times.
That combination of experience, reputation, verified professional standing, and public credibility is why Edward Y. Kroub was included on FreddieFender.com.
Credentials
- Juris Doctor, New York Law School, 2004
- Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Brooklyn College, 2001, with national honors
- Admitted in New Jersey in 2019
- Admitted to practice in Georgia
- Admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Admitted to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- Admitted to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
- Admitted to the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
- Admitted to the United States District Court for the Western District of New York
- Admitted to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- Admitted to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
- Admitted to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
- Admitted to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri
- Admitted to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Career Highlights / Proven Experience
Career Highlights
- Firm Co-Founder: Co-founded Mizrahi Kroub LLP with Joseph H. Mizrahi in 2021, establishing a plaintiff-side practice that represents employees, consumers, and people with disabilities against corporate defendants.
- More Than $1 Billion Recovered: Entered the current partnership with a documented career record exceeding $1 billion in settlements for clients through plaintiff-side class actions and complex litigation.
- Former Securities-Litigation Department Vice Chairman: Served as a partner, vice chairman of the securities-litigation department, and co-lead counsel at Lovell Stewart Halebian Jacobson LLP, concentrating on antitrust, commodities, securities, and financial-market litigation.
- Nearly Two Decades of Plaintiff-Side Class-Action Experience: Spent close to 20 years representing consumers, investors, pension funds, and people with disabilities in large cases against major corporations before directing that experience toward the firm’s employment practice.
- Supreme Court-Level Litigation Experience: Worked on the plaintiffs’ team in initial-public-offering antitrust litigation that reached the United States Supreme Court as Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC v. Billing, involving claims against major Wall Street underwriters.
- Large-Scale Employment and Civil-Rights Practice: Under Kroub’s co-leadership, Mizrahi Kroub has resolved more than 5,000 matters across employment and disability law, including individual claims and large class actions.
- Employee-Only Employment Practice: Represents workers rather than employers in matters involving discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, unpaid compensation, family and medical leave, whistleblower protection, and workplace accommodations.
- Sustained Super Lawyers Recognition: Selected to New York Super Lawyers from 2023 through 2026 after five consecutive Rising Stars selections from 2014 through 2018.
- Academic Distinction: Received the Bert and Blanche Vann Memorial Scholarship while attending New York Law School.
Proven Experience
- More Than $1 Billion in Career Recoveries: Before co-founding Mizrahi Kroub, helped obtain aggregate settlements exceeding this amount for clients through complex commodities-manipulation, antitrust, securities, and other class-action litigation.
- More Than $600 Million in Financial-Benchmark Recoveries: As a partner, securities-litigation department vice chairman, and co-lead counsel at Lovell Stewart Halebian Jacobson LLP, helped secure substantial recoveries through antitrust litigation challenging the alleged manipulation of financial benchmarks including the London Interbank Offered Rate and Australian Bank Bill Reference Rate.
- $1.08 Billion LCD Price-Fixing Recovery: Served on the plaintiffs’ litigation team in In re TFT-LCD (Flat Panel) Antitrust Litigation, which challenged an alleged international conspiracy to inflate the prices of LCD panels used in televisions, computers, and other electronic products.
- $118 Million Commodities-Manipulation Settlement: Worked on Kohen v. Pacific Investment Management Company, litigation brought on behalf of investors affected by alleged manipulation of the Treasury-note futures market.
- $101 Million Natural-Gas Market Recovery: Participated in nationwide litigation pursuing compensation for traders and other market participants harmed by alleged manipulation of natural-gas prices.
- Disability-Access Claims Preserved Against Dismissal: In Cruz v. Jomashop, Inc., Kroub and his firm represented a legally blind consumer who encountered barriers while attempting to shop online with screen-reading software. The federal judge rejected Jomashop’s argument that subsequent website changes made the lawsuit moot, allowing the disability-access claims to proceed into discovery.
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