Judge Lewis Liman & Doug Liman

Lewis J Liman is a United States District Judge in the Southern District of New York. Prior to assuming the bench on January 1, 2020, Judge Liman was a litigation partner at Cleary Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, LLP, and Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering.  He also served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York and held the position of Deputy Chief of Appeals in that office.  He is a 1983 graduate of Harvard College and a 1987 graduate of Yale Law School and received an M.Sc. degree with distinction in International Relations from the London School of Economics.

Doug Liman is a film and television director and producer.  His film credits range from creating the Bourne Identity franchise to small Indie films like “Swingers” and “Locked Down”.  He has worked with Tom Cruise twice – “Live Die Repeat” and “American Made” (The first of three films where Cruise has actually piloted an aircraft on screen).  In Ukraine, he discovered he is apparently best known for “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”.  In television, his producing credits include nine seasons of “Suits”, “The O.C.”, “Covert Affairs”, and “The Recruit”.  On Martha’s Vineyard, he is known as the farmer who cannot keep his animals contained.