Rob Pfister and Paul Saso met as first-year law students at NYU. Rob’s first visit to New York City was his arrival the weekend before classes began; his father was a farmer and his mother a homemaker. Paul grew up in New Jersey, the son of an auto mechanic and a stay-at-home mom. Both were the first in their families to attend college and earn bachelor’s degrees – Rob from Indiana University, Paul from Drew University.
After law school, Rob clerked in Connecticut, returned briefly to New York, and settled in Los Angeles. Paul, by contrast, has been a committed New Yorker ever since.
Rob and Paul first practiced together at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, where they represented companies including JPMorgan Chase and Travelers in a variety of high-stakes securities, insurance, and bankruptcy litigation. Together Rob and Paul prepared appellate briefs to the highest courts in New York and New Jersey advocating full marriage equality for same-sex couples, years before the issue was finally resolved by the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015).
Building on their decades of experience in courts and tribunals across the nation, Rob and Paul created a boutique law firm with offices on both coasts and in the heartland.