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Barry Temkin is a partner at Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass. His practice includes securities arbitration and litigation, commodities and securities regulation, legal ethics, directors and officers defense, construction and commercial litigation. Mr. Temkin represents broker dealers, futures commission merchants and registered representatives in litigation, arbitration and regulatory investigations. He also represents lawyers and law firms in disciplinary investigations and conflict disputes.

Mr. Temkin is an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law, where he teaches Professional Responsibility. As an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, he tried dozens of jury cases and served as a Senior Trial Attorney in the Homicide Bureau. Mr. Temkin has published articles on securities law and attorney professionalism in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, The Securities Regulation Law Journal, Seattle University Law Review, Securities Arbitration Commentator, and the New York Law Journal. Mr. Temkin has been a member of the FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) Board of Arbitrators since 1999, and is chair of the New York Country Lawyers' Association Professional Ethics Committee. Mr. Temkin has participated in panels on securities, commodities 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, New York Law School, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York State Trial Lawyers Association and The Defense Association of New York, along with numerous corporations and insurance companies. He has been quoted in the ABA Journal, the New York Law Journal, Lawyers U.S.A. and other publications.

MEMBERSHIPS/HONORS

• Chair, New York County Lawyers’ Association Committee on Professional Ethics, 2006 - present; Member, 2001- present
• Member, Editorial Board of Oxford University Press New York Rules of Professional Conduct, 2010-present
• Member, NASD Regulation, Inc./Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)  Board of Arbitrators, 1999-present
• New York County Lawyers' Association, Committee on Futures and Derivatives
• Volunteer Attorney, Trial Lawyers Care, 2001-2004
• Otto L. Walter Distinguished Writing Award, New York Law School, 2008
• Member, Editorial Board of The Legal Malpractice Law Review

PUBLICATIONS

• Arbitration: Handling FINRA's New Discovery Guide, Compliance Reporter (July 18, 2011) (with Kate Digeronimo).
• Ethical Issues for Lawyers Under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act: Lawyer Representations Under the End-User Swap Exemption, BNA Securities Regulation & Law Report (June 6, 2011) (with Michael Sackheim).
• CFTC Targets Forex Industry Compliance, Compliance Reporter (April 18, 2011) (with Felix Shipkevich).
• How to Staff an Ethics Hotline, Bar Leader Magazine, Vol. 35, No. 3 (April 2011) (with Gordon Eng).
• Twittering Jurors and the Rules of Professional Conduct: Should Lawyers Avert Their Eyes from Juror Social Network Postings?, ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct (March 30, 2011).
• New Suitability and Fiduciary Standards for Financial Advisers Under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and FINRA Rules, Securities Arbitration Commentator (March 2011) (with Michael R. Koblenz).
• The Ethical Issues of Lateral Moves: Whether, When and How to Notify Clients of a Lawyer's Resignation, New York State Bar Journal, Vol. 83, No. 3 (March/April 2011).
• Labor and Employment in the Securities Industry: Are Registered Securities Representatives Subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act?, 38 Securities Regulation Law Journal 371 (Winter 2010) (with Robert Goodman).
• New York Rules of Professional Conduct, Oxford University Press, Rule Editor and contributor (2010).
• Is Law Firm Discrimination Unethical?, New York Law Journal (August 26, 2010).
• State Regulation of Unauthorized Practice of Law in Arbitration and Mediation: The Trend Toward Permitting Multijurisdictional Practice in ADR, BNA Securities Regulation & Law Report, 42 SRLR 1561 (August 16, 2010).
• Supervision Duties Under the Commodity Exchange Act, New York Law Journal (May 27, 2010).
• Settling Away: Unreported Private Settlement of Customer Complaints in the Securities Industry, Securities Arbitration Commentator, Vol. 2009, No. 4 (May 2010).
• Open Questions on the Duty to Advise of the Right to Select Independent Counsel, The Defendant (Spring 2010).
• Intrafamily Conflicts of Interest Under the Rules of Professional Conduct, New York Law Journal (December 31, 2009).
• Lying by Proxy: Permissible Trickery and Deception by Undercover Investigators, New York Law Journal (October 13, 2009).
• Coverage Conflicts for Retained Insurance Defense Counsel, New York Law Journal (July 8, 2009).
• Client Perjury Under the New Rules of Professional Conduct, New York Law Journal (February 24, 2009).
• Deception in Undercover Investigations: Conduct Based vs. Status Based Ethical Analysis, 32 Seattle University Law Review 123 (Fall 2008). (Winner of 2008 Otto L. Walter Distinguished Writing Award from New York Law School)
• Arbitration of Customer Claims Before the New Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, (with James Yellen),  New York Law Journal (June 2008).
• Are Insurance Brokers Professionals? New York Law Journal (August 8, 2006).
• Statutes of Limitation in Securities Arbitrations, New York Law Journal (June 16, 2005).
• Ethical Issues in Settlement Negotiations, New York Law Journal (March 14, 2005).
• Misrepresentation By Omission in Settlement Negotiations:  Should There Be A Silent Safe Harbor?, 18 Georgetown J. L. Ethics 179 (Fall/Winter 2004).
• Pleading Standards in Securities Arbitrations, New York Law Journal (Sept. 20, 2004).
• Errant E-Mail: Inadvertent Disclosure of Confidential Material Poses Dilemma, New York Law Journal, (October 14, 2003).
• Ethical, Legal and Practical Implications of Attorney Referral Fees, New York Law Journal (August 7, 2002).
• Reviewing Legal Implications of Variable Annuities,  New York Law Journal (February 26, 2002).
• Can Negligent Referral to Another Attorney Constitute Legal Malpractice?  17 Touro L.  Rev. 639 (Spring 2001).
• Guidance Given on Discovery in NASD Arbitrations, New York Law Journal (Nov. 13, 2001).
• New York's Labor Law Section 240:  Has it Been Narrowed or Expanded By The Courts Beyond The Legislative Intent?, 44 New York Law School Law Review 45 (2000), 44 NYLSLR 45 (cited with approval in Narducci v. Manhasset Bay Associates, 96 N.Y.2d 259, 727 N.Y.S.2d 37 (2001), and Almanzar v. Goval Realty Corp., 286 A.D.2d 278, 729 N.Y.S.2d 133 (1st Dep’t 2001).

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Futures Industry Association, Law and Compliance Division Conference on the Regulation of Futures, Derivatives and OTC Products
• Futures and Derivatives Committee, New York County Lawyers' Association, The Remaking of Wall Street
• New York City Bar, Starting and Maintaining Your Own Firm In a Recession
• American Conference Institute, 2nd Annual Forum on LPL/Legal Malpractice, Departing Attorneys, Lateral Hires, and Their Impact on LPL: Risk Management and Policy Considerations for Carriers and Law Firms
• Futures and Derivatives Committee, New York County Lawyers' Association, Supervisory Liability Under the Commodity Exchange Act
• New York City Bar, Everyday Ethical Challenges in the Practice of Law
• New York State Trial Lawyers Institute: Ethical Issues for Solo and Small Firm Practitioners
• Defense Association of New York: Conflicts For Retained Defense Lawyers
• New York State Bar Association: Ethical Conflicts for Directors of Not-for-Profit-Corporations
• New York City Bar, Judicial Elections: The Ethical and Practical Dilemmas They Pose for Practicing Lawyers
• New York State Bar Association, Ethics for Litigators and Trial Lawyers
• New  York County Lawyers' Association, Ethical Issues in Internal Investigations
• New York County Lawyers' Association, Civil Trial Practice Institute

ADMISSIONS
New York
New Jersey
United States District Court Eastern District of New York
United States District Court Southern District of New York

EDUCATION
B.A., magna cum laude, University of Rochester, 1979
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1982

Robert S. Goodman is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School.  Mr. Goodman has over thirty years of experience in litigation including general commercial, corporate and partnership disputes, securities, employment discrimination, real estate, trademark infringement and unfair competition at both the trial and appellate levels and in arbitration.

Mr. Goodman is admitted to practice in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third and Federal Circuits; U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; and the New York State Courts.  Mr. Goodman is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Mr. Goodman’s representative clients have included:  Target Corporation, First Union National Bank, First New York Bank for Business, Concord Transportation, Inc., Webcraft, Scientiae LLC, and Lux Cashmere.

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Mr. Goodman’s reported decisions have included:  Healthworld Corp. v. Gottlieb, Scientiae LLC, et al., 12 A.D.3d 278, 786 N.Y.S.2d 8 (1st Dep’t 2004); A. Brod, et al. v. Worldwide Dreams LLC, 2004 WL 2535087 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co. 2004); A. Brod, et al. v. Worldwide Dreams LLC, 2004 WL 1563352 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Co. 2004); Security Ins. Co. of Hartford v. Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. and Concord Trans. Inc., 314 F. Supp. 2d 201 (S.D.N.Y. 2003); Security Ins. Co. of Hartford v. Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. and Concord Trans. Inc., 2003 WL 22004895 (S.D.N.Y. 2003), judgment vacated, 391 F.3d 77 (2d Cir. 2004); First Union Nat’l Bank v. A.G. Edwards, 262 A.D.2d 106, 691 N.Y.S.2d 491 (1st Dep’t 1999); Sirota v. Welbilt Appliance, Inc. 840 F. Supp. 11 (E.D.N.Y. 1994).
 

Eric J. Voigt's practice includes all aspects of litigation and arbitration of complex insurance and reinsurance disputes involving commercial property/casualty insurance; life, accident and health insurance and reinsurance; long term care reinsurance; workers' compensation carve out business; and professional liability insurance.  He also advises clients on a wide variety of coverage issues pertaining to commercial liability insurance including coverage for product liability and pollution claims as well as professional and contractual liability matters. He is a member of the New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts bars.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Voigt spent several years in the insurance industry as counsel in the environmental and mass tort divisions of two international insurance companies.  He also worked for a New Jersey law firm where he concentrated in insurance-related coverage disputes involving environmental, toxic tort, and products liability issues.

Mr. Voigt is a graduate of Cook College at Rutgers University (cum laude) and Vermont Law School, where he received a Master of Studies in Environmental Law (cum laude) in addition to his law degree.

ADMISSIONS
New York
New Jersey
Massachusetts

EDUCATION
B.S., cum laude, Rutgers University, Cook College, 1991
J.D., Vermont Law School, 1994
M.S.E.L. (Master of Studies in Environmental Law), cum laude, Vermont Law School, 1994

Bernadette Kelly Kirwin is a partner with primary responsibility for litigating complex insurance coverage disputes.  Bernadette has extensive experience litigating first-party property coverage actions involving catastrophic losses such as those stemming from Hurricane Katrina and large-scale construction accidents.  Ms. Kirwin's experience also includes litigation of issues specific to builder's risk and business interruption coverages.  Bernadette also has litigated complex third-party liability coverage matters involving hazardous products. 

Bernadette was instrumental in establishing Mound Cotton's annual women's networking event known as "An Evening Dedicated to Networking For Women." This invitation-only event provides an interactive forum for insurance and reinsurance professional women.  If you are interested in attending, please contact Bernadette at bkirwin@moundcotton.com.

Bernadette is also an active member of the National Association of Insurance Women ("NAIW"), the Association for Professional Insurance Women ("APIW"), and the New York County Lawyers' Association.

Bernadette earned her undergraduate degree from Hunter College while employed as a paralegal for the General Counsel's Office of R. H. Macy & Co., Inc., and her law degree from New York Law School while employed as a Manager for Legal Services for Saks Fifth Avenue.

Bernadette is admitted to the New York bar and to the United States Districts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. She has also appeared pro hac vice in several other states, including Louisiana, New Jersey (DNJ), Washington, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Arizona.
 

MEMBERSHIPS/HONORS

• International Association of Insurance Professionals ("IAOIP")
• Association of Professional Insurance Women ("APIW")
• New York County Lawyers' Association

ADMISSIONS
New York
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
United States District Court, Southern District of New York

EDUCATION
B.A., Hunter College, 1995
J.D., New York Law School, 2000

Amy J. Kallal is a graduate of Syracuse University College of Law (cum laude) and Michigan State University (cum laude). At Syracuse, she was an editor of the Journal of Legislation and Policy; she also attended the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and received a Masters Degree in Public Administration. Her practice focuses on all aspects of reinsurance arbitration and litigation and includes disputes relating to asbestos, environmental, and clergy sexual misconduct claims, as well as other complex reinsurance coverage issues. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Kallal worked as an attorney at the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department. She is a member of the American Bar Association and is admitted to the New York bar.

ADMISSIONS
New York

EDUCATION
B.A., Michigan State University (cum laude), 1992
M.A., Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 1997
J.D., Syracuse University College of Law (cum laude), 1997
 

Paul S. Danner practices in the areas of products liability and toxic torts, including exposure to chemicals, lead, mold and asbestos. He also handles construction claims involving property damage, personal injury and associated contractual disputes, as well as other personal injury matters. In addition, Mr. Danner handles general commercial and contractual disputes, and counsels clients on first- and third-party coverage matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Danner was a judicial law clerk for Judge Kenneth R. Stein and Presiding Chancery Judge R. Benjamin Cohen of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex County, New Jersey. Mr. Danner, who litigates cases in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels, is admitted to the New York and New Jersey bars, as well as the Federal District Courts of New Jersey, the Eastern District of New York and the Southern District of New York.

Mr. Danner received his J.D. in 1999 from Rutgers-Newark School of Law and graduated from Rutgers College in 1996.

PUBLICATIONS

• Co-Author, "Supreme Court Holds Federal Law Pre-Empts State Failure to Warn Claims,"  New York Law Journal (Aug. 30, 2011).
• Author, "Confusion Persists Over Application Of the 'Noseworthy' Doctrine, New York Law Journal, May 6, 2011.
• Author, Excess Insurer's Right To Challenge Exhaustion Of Underlying Policies For Asbestos Claims Is Limited, Mealey's Litigation Report: Asbestos, June 15, 2005

ADMISSIONS
New York, 2000
New Jersey, 1999
Federal District Courts of New Jersey, 1999
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, 2000
United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 2000

EDUCATION
B.A., Rutgers College, 1996
J.D., Rutgers-Newark School of Law, 1999
 

William D. Wilson has over nineteen years of experience in all aspects of commercial litigation. He is the resident partner in the firm's New Jersey office. His practice includes insurance defense, insurance coverage disputes, subrogation, contract disputes, products liability, employer liability, premises liability, and general negligence. Mr. Wilson has litigated cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States. He has co-authored articles in National Underwriter, The John Liner Review, and The Federation of Regulatory Counsel Newsletter. Mr. Wilson is admitted to the New Jersey, New York and Florida bars, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, and Federal Circuits, the United States Court of Claims, and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Western Districts of New York.  He is also a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Mr. Wilson is a graduate of New Jersey Institute of Technology (magna cum laude) and St. John's University School of Law, where he served as an editor of the St. John's Law Review. Mr. Wilson has an undergraduate degree in computer science and worked as a tool and die maker for several years before college.

MEMBERSHIPS/HONORS

• New Jersey State Bar Association

PUBLICATIONS

• Co-Author, “The Tab For Litigating Results: The enforceability of contractual indemnity
  clauses,” New Jersey Law Journal, June 8, 2009.
• Co-author of articles that have appeared in The John Liner Review, and The Federation of Regulatory Counsel Newsletter.
• Author, "Off-Premises Defense Washed Up?," National Underwriter, May 30, 2005.
• Editor, St. John's Law Review.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Speaker, "Catastrophic Hurricane Claims," Manhattan Chapter of the CPCU Society, April 2006.
• Speaker, "Complexities of Business Interruption Losses," PCS Catastrophe Conference, April 2006.
• Speaker, "Expert Class On Business Interruption and Contingent Business Interruption Claims," American Conference Institute Catastrophic Event Insurance Claims Conference, March 2006.
• Speaker, "Establishing Coverage Limitations and Determining Loss on Business Interruption and Contingent Business Interruption Claims," American Conference Institute Catastrophic Event Insurance Claims Conference, March 2006.
• Co-Chairman and Speaker, Mealey's Fundamentals of Insurance Conference, February 2006.

ADMISSIONS
New Jersey, 1991
New York, 1992
Florida, 2009
United States Supreme Court, 2004
United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1997
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1996
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 2006
United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit, 2004
United States Court of Appeals, Armed Forces, 2004
United States Court of Federal Claims, 2005
United States District Court, District of New Jersey, 1991
United States District Court, Northern District of New York, 1993
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1992
United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 1992
United States District Court, Western District of New York, 1993  

EDUCATION
B.S., magna cum laude, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1988
J.D., St. John's University School of Law, 1991

Robert E. Wilder has thirty years of experience litigating and arbitrating complex reinsurance, insurance, and general commercial matters. His practice focuses on domestic and international reinsurance disputes involving traditional reinsurance,finite reinsurance, captive arrangements, insurer insolvencies, pools and managing general agencies. Mr. Wilder has litigated and arbitrated reinsurance coverage issues arising from a variety of underlying claims, including asbestos, environmental pollution, clergy sex abuse, silica, worker's compensation, personal accident, permanent disability and bail bonds. These proceedings have involved issues such as allocation, aggregation, negligent supervision, deficient underwriting, follow the settlements, annualization of limits, setoff, late notice, misrepresentation and spirals. Mr. Wilder regularly appears before arbitration panels and courts throughout the United States. He also counsels clients on a wide variety of reinsurance issues.  He lectures frequently and has published articles on reinsurance and related topics. Mr. Wilder is a Board Member of HarrisMartin's Reinsurance Report and co-editor of the firm's newsletter Reinsurance Law Update.

Mr. Wilder is a graduate of Binghamton University and New York Law School (magna cum laude). Prior to joining the firm, he practiced law at Healy & Baillie, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, and Lord Day & Lord, Barrett Smith. Mr. Wilder is admitted to the New York bar and is a member of the American Bar Association.

PUBLICATIONS

• Wasa v. Lexington: The War Between England and the American Colonies Has Officially Ended, Premier Vol. 1. No.1, Harris Martin's Reinsurance Report 6 (2008) (co-authored with Sarah E. Rouse)
• Follow the Settlements: Under What Circumstances is it Applicable to Allocation and Aggregation Determinations?, 18-3 Mealey's Litig. Rep. Reinsurance 14 (June 1, 2007)
• Tripartite Reinsurance Arbitration: The Case for a Neutral Panel, 16 ALTERNATIVES 137 (CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution) (1998) (reprinted in Spring 1999 Newsletter of the ABA Excess, Surplus Lines & Reinsurance Committee)
• Aggregation and Allocation of Losses Under Casualty Excess of Loss Reinsurance Agreements: Must a Reinsurer “Follow the Fortunes", JOURNAL OF REINSURANCE, Fall 1997
• Reinsurance – Third Circuit Limits Duty of Good Faith, 145 N.J.L.J. 584 (1996)
• The "Event" Debate in Asbestos-Related Excess of Loss Reinsurance Disputes, 31 TORT & INS. L.J. 687 (1996) (co-authored with Michael J. Murphy)

MEMBERSHIPS
American Bar Association

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
New York, 1981
United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 1981
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 2010

EDUCATION
B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1975
J.D., magna cum laude, New York Law School, 1980

Jeffrey S. Weinstein has over twenty-five years of experience in insurance, reinsurance, commercial, tort, contract, corporate, and multi-district litigations and arbitrations. His practice is concentrated in domestic and international insurance coverage disputes involving first-party property, energy, pollution, and employers' liability coverages, and coverage issues arising from mass disasters (e.g., 9/11, 2005 hurricanes; 2011 Japan earthquake).  Mr. Weinstein also assists clients in policy drafting, claims handling, and litigation in connection with worldwide property and specialty coverages, such as "Kidnap, Ransom, Extortion," "Confiscation, Expropriation, Nationalization," "Malicious Product Tampering," "Product Recall," "Contaminated Products," "Property, Terrorism, Sabotage," and various "War Risks". He has litigated and handled appeals in state and federal courts throughout the United States and Puerto Rico and has participated in litigations involving several European countries.

Mr. Weinstein has lectured throughout the United States and in the U.K. on first-party coverage issues involving environmental damages, product recall/contamination insurance, mold, and hurricane claims, and he has written for Best's Review, Mealey's Litigation Reports (Insurance), Mealey's Emerging Insurance Disputes, The National Law Journal, and the Risk Management Newsletter. In 2006, Mr. Weinstein was a panelist at the Matson, Driscoll & Damico Annual Business Interruption Roundtable Panel Discussion in London. 

Mr. Weinstein and Eugene Wollan prepared the 2010 revisions to the chapter on Property Insurance in Appleman's New York Insurance Law.

He is admitted to the New York and New Jersey State and Federal bars, the District Court of Wisconsin and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits, and he is a member of the New York County Lawyers' Association.

Mr. Weinstein is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Boston University School of Law (cum laude). 

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 MEMBERSHIPS/HONORS

• Martindale-Hubbell: AV Peer Review Rated
• Recognized in Super Lawyers - Insurance Coverage
• Recognized in Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition - Insurance Coverage
• Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel
• New York County Lawyers' Association

 PUBLICATIONS

• Author, "The 'Causation' Conundrum and What We Can Learn from U.K. Law," Mealey's Litigation Report: Insurance, February 9, 2011.
• Co-Author, "Swine Flu - Implications for First-Party and Workers' Compensation Insurance," Claims Quorum - CPCU Society Claims Interest Group, Volume 28, Number 2, April 2010.
• Co-Author, "Innocence Lost and Found: Determining Recovery for Co-Insured," New York Law Journal, March 1, 2010.
• Co-Author, "This Just In: How Product Recall Coverage Can be Affected by the Media," Executive View's Digital Guide on Insurance and Risk Management, January 2010.
• Co-Author, "Contingent Business Interruption - The 'Silent' Coverage," Mealey's Litigation Report: Catastrophic Loss, Vol. 4, #11, August 2009.
• Author, “Food Products Recall Insurance:  It May Be Newsworthy, But Is It Covered?”, Mealey’s Emerging Insurance Disputes, June, 2008.
• Co-author, “Looking Back, Looking Forward: How to Measure Business Interruption Losses,” Mealey’s Business Interruption, December, 2002.
• Co-author, “Mold and Sick Building Syndrome,” White Paper, 2001.
• Co-author, “Business Interruption,” Best’s Review, December, 2002.
• Author, “Defamation in Cyberspace,” Mealey’s Insurance.
• Author, “Does Defamation on Web Create Liability for ISPs?”, The National Law Journal, August 20, 2001.
• Co-author, “Insurance Risks in the Computer Age,” White Paper, 2000.
• Co-author, “Y2K and Insurance Coverage” A Comprehensive Review,” White Paper, 1999.
  Author, “Y2K: A First-Party Perspective,” Mealey’s Litigation Report, March 9, 1999.
• Author, “Great (or Reasonable) Expectations,” Best’s Review, May, 1990.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• Lecturer, "Sendai Earthquake/Tsunami: Discussion of First-Party Coverage Issues," ARC Legacy's Insurance and Reinsurance Breakfast Forum," London, England, June 22, 2011.
• Lecturer, "Food Contamination Claims: Coverage Issues," PLRB 2011 Claims Conference, April, 2011.
• Lecturer, " Food Product Recall Insurance: It May be Newsworthy, but is It Covered?," Top 10 Insurance Issues Conference, BVR Legal/Mealey's Conferences, December 2008.
• Panelist:  Matson Driscoll & Damico Annual Business Interruption Roundtable Panel Discussion, London, June, 2006.
• Lecturer, "Mealey's Mold Insurance Litigation Conference," September, 2002.
• Lecturer, First-party coverage of environmental damages and mold claims," 2001-2002.

ADMISSIONS
New York, 1986
New Jersey (State and District Courts), 1986
U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts, New York, 1988
Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1990
Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 2001
U.S. District Court, Eastern District, Wisconsin, 2002

EDUCATION
B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1983
J.D., cum laude, Boston University School of Law, 1986

PRACTICE AREAS

Counsel in a wide variety of complex matters, such as:

• Disputes arising from major private and public construction projects, including delay damages; property damage and personal injury claims arising from collapses and other catastrophes and related design defect, negligent construction, and violations of building codes and industry standards; bid protests; litigation of defense and indemnity obligations; as well as toxic tort, mass tort, class action, and other work site significant injury claims.
• Asbestos litigation, mold and other "sick building" disputes.
• Commerical matters, corporate dissolution and related proceedings.
• Products liability, environmental law, insurance, and reinsurance.

Mr. Weber has briefed and argued many complex motions for his clients. He has also conducted extensive direct and cross-examinations of witnesses at depositions and hearings and been involved in many arbitrations, mediations, trials, and appeals in state and federal courts, as well as before arbitration and mediation panels.

Mr. Weber has represented major companies in construction, project management, engineering, financial services, insurance and reinsurance. He has also handled commercial litigation involving various contract disputes (including sales, construction, design, commissions, and employment matters), TRO's, preliminary injunctions, as well as the theft of intellectual property, misappropriation of trade secrets, and bankruptcy.

Mr. Weber has also counseled professional engineers and construction companies regarding permissible business structures for the provision of 'design-build" services in various jurisdictions.

Mr. Weber has been integrally involved in lobbying federal and state representatives with respect to complex and controversial legislation on behalf of major corporate clients.  He has also advised multi-national entities regarding the wind down and dissolution of domestic operations and related corporate and litigation management strategies.

Before joining the firm, Mr. Weber was with Eastman Kodak Company for nearly a decade, where he held various marketing, training, and management positions in Kodak's Office Imaging Group.

ARTICLES, PRESENTATIONS

• New Standard for Punitive Damages Awards: Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker.
• Building Catastrophe Litigation: Considerations for Construction and Design Professionals, Building Owners, Landlord's, and Tenants-To Whom is a Duty Owed, and From Whom can Recovery be Had?
• Orbit of Duty-Limitations and Implications in Catastrophic Property Losses.
• Possible Exit Strategies for the Asbestos Mass Tort Mess.
• Mold and "Sick Building Syndrome" An Overview-Revisited for Construction, Design Professionals.
• A Future for Design-Build in New York?
• Developments in Interpreting Scaffold Act/Labor Law §240.
• E-Discovery Changes To The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure; Obligations and Requirements Concerning Electronically Stored Information.
• Who Bears The Costs Of Production Of Electronically Stored Information?
• No Delay Here; New York Governor Quickly Ratifies New Legislation to Ease the Strain on Late-Notifying Insured.
• Allstate Insurance Company v. American Home Assurance Company, New York's Appellate Division, First Department Finds There Are Limited to a Reinsurer's Obligation to Follow the Fortunes of a Cedent's Post-Settlement Allocation.
• Recent Developments in Reinsurance Law.

ADMISSIONS
New York, 1993
New Jersey, 1993

COURT ADMISSIONS
U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
New York State Courts
U.S. District Courts for the District Of New Jersey
New Jersey State Courts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Supreme Court of the United States

EDUCATION
B.A., cum laude, Pace University, 1984
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1992
Editor, Fordham Entertainment, Media & Intellectual Property Law Journal