As the founder and managing member of Marks & Sokolov, LLC, Bruce Marks has earned an international reputation as an expert on commercial legal matters between the West and the former Soviet Union. He is known for his skilled trial advocacy work in both U.S. and foreign jurisdictions and for his seasoned negotiating skills in transactional matters.

Bruce has successfully represented Western, Russian, and Ukrainian clients in commercial, professional malpractice, lender liability, securities fraud, maritime, and RICO litigation matters-some involving billions of dollars in claims. Bruce also advises clients on cross-border corporate work between the West, Russia, and Ukraine.

Prior to founding Marks & Sokolov, Bruce served from 1998 to 2001 as a name managing director of the U.S. office and name member of an international law firm with offices in Philadelphia, Moscow, and St. Petersburg, Russia. A former Pennsylvania State Senator, Bruce also served as counsel to U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) from 1985 to 1989.

From 1991 through 1998, Bruce practiced law at Spector Gadon & Rosen, P.C., where he was a partner in the Litigation Department, and at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, where he was an attorney in the Business & Finance and Government Regulations sections. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, U.S. Federal District Courts in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C., U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 1984, Bruce earned a J.D. from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated cum laude, and an L.L.M. from the University of Cambridge, England. In 1980, he received a certificate from the Pushkin Institute in Moscow, USSR, where he participated in an intensive Russian language program. Bruce received two undergraduate degrees, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979; the first a B.S. in Economics (Wharton School) and the second, a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature. He is comfortable in Russian.