About Barry Temkin

Barry Temkin is a partner at Mound Cotton. He is a litigator with extensive trial experience, having tried over fifty jury trials to verdict. He has also litigated numerous arbitrations, including securities, commercial and employment disputes. As an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, he tried dozens of jury cases and served as a Senior Trial Attorney in the Homicide Bureau. He represents broker dealers, financial advisors, insurance brokers, financial firms and investment advisers in litigation, arbitration and regulatory investigations. Barry also represents lawyers and law firms in professional responsibility matters, including conflicts, sanction proceedings, fee disputes, legal malpractice cases and proceedings before the attorney grievance committee. He also litigates and tries commercial, construction and professional liability cases.

Barry is an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law, where he teaches courses on securities regulation and professional responsibility. He has published articles on securities law and attorney professionalism in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Law360, the Securities Regulation Law Journal, Seattle University Law Review, Securities Arbitration Commentator, and the New York Law Journal. Barry has been a member of the FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Board of Arbitrators since 1999, and served for ten years as co-chair of the New York Country Lawyers’ Association Professional Ethics Committee. He has lectured on securities law, professional liability and legal ethics at the New York State Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers’ Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Practicing Law Institute, the Futures Industry Association and numerous corporations and insurance companies. He has been quoted in the ABA Journal, Investment News, the New York Law Journal, The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, Law360, the National Law Journal, American Banker, Lawyers U.S.A. and other publications. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the University of Rochester.