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Frederick W. Gerkens

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School: John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Department: Accounting
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Location: 524 W 59th St
New York, NY - 10019
Dates at John Jay College of Criminal Justice: November 2013 - January 2020
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Biography

John Jay College of Criminal Justice - Accounting

Law Office of Frederick W. Gerkens, Esq.
Law Practice
Frederick
Gerkens, Esq.
Greater New York City Area
Evaluate, develope and manage litigation and appeals in federal and state courts, including all aspects of pre-trial litigation, mediation and settlement. Cases frequently involve accounting, auditing and Sarbanes-Oxley reporting issues.

Supervised a wide variety of cases, including disputes involving multi-party and multi-district litigation in several industries requiring specialized regulation, accounting and reporting including financial services, utilities, retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, technology, and entities in reorganization and liquidation.

Advised other senior counsel on matters of strategy and tactics in commercial, shareholder, consumer protection, employment, and antitrust litigation.

Argued several motions and appeals, including one before a former United States Supreme Court Justice and two Chief Judges of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Court Admissions: New York (1995); United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York and the Eastern District of Wisconsin; United States Courts of Appeal for the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Ninth Circuits and for Veterans Claims; United States Supreme Court, United States Tax Court.

Experience

Glancy Binkow & Goldberg LLP
Senior Counsel
Represented classes prosecuting federal and state securities law claims. Developed and prosecuted, on behalf of an insitutional client, Section 18 Securities Exchange Act claims and related state law holders' claims.
Law Office of Frederick W. Gerkens, Esq.
Owner
Frederick worked at Law Office of Frederick W. Gerkens, Esq. as a Owner
Wechsler Harwood Halebian & Feffer LLP (n/k/a Harwood Feffer LLP)
Partner
Represented classes and individuals pursuing securities, consumer and other state law claims in federal and state courts. Developed and settled one of the first state law privacy actions against a social web site for improperly distributing private customer information to advertisers.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)
Instructor
Current: Adjunct Associate Professor of Graduate and Undergraduate courses in Law, Accounting, Auditing and Taxation; Director of the Advanced Certificate in Forensic Accounting Program (September 2012 through August 2013).
Lovell Stewart Halebian LLP
Senior Counsel
Represented classes and individuals pursuing securities, antitrust, breach of contract and fiduciary duty claims; On lead plaintiffs' executive committee in the Global Crossing Ltd. securities law class action; successfully represented individual investor in post-trial appeals in federal securities law action.