Arthur S. Linker

Qualifications and Career Profile

Arthur S. Linker concentrates his practice in the areas of complex commercial litigation, financial and securities litigation, accountants’ liability and product liability. He has litigated a broad variety of securities, corporate and partnership, financial, accounting and auditing, ERISA, RICO, creditors’ rights, product liability, trusts and estates, antitrust, defamation, real property and commercial cases.

In addition to pretrial and trial advocacy, Mr. Linker has had extensive federal and state appellate experience on behalf of the firm’s individual and business clients as well as indigent persons. He is deeply involved in pro bono matters, and has been appointed as appellate counsel by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in numerous cases as a result of his service on the Second Circuit Pro Bono Appellate Panel.

Mr. Linker is a member of the New York Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of Arizona, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, Eighth and Ninth Circuits and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Associations and Committees

Mr. Linker 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, where he currently serves on the Committee on Civil Rights.

Lectures and Articles

Mr. Linker is an Adjunct Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University where he teaches pretrial litigation practice. Mr. Linker has served as a faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.

Education

Mr. Linker received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa (A.B., 1968) and his graduate degree (M.A. in Physics, 1970) from Columbia University. He earned his law degree cum laude, from Harvard University (J.D., 1974).