Expert Witness Testimony

• Federal and State Courts
• Civil and Criminal
• Arbitration

Richard Leisner is Trenam Kemker's senior securities lawyer and has been actively serving as an expert witness since the mid-1980s. Richard's broad-based corporate and securities law practice encompasses all stages of the corporate life cycle for public and private companies and their executives. The depth and breadth of more than three decades of experience as a transactional lawyer are the foundation for a balanced and pragmatic perspective in expert witness/consultant work. 

 Professional Highlights

• SEC Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies (2005-2006)
• Chair, Middle Market & Small Business Committee, Section of Business Law, American Bar Association (1997-2001)
• Chair, Securities Regulation Subcommittee, Middle Market & Small Business Committee, Section of Business Law, American Bar Association (1986-1989)
• Chair, Business Law Section, The Florida Bar (1980-1981)
• Member, NASD Inc. Legal Advisory Board (1999-2004)
• Professor of Law (Adjunct), Stetson University College of Law, St. Petersburg, FL, Introduction to Securities Regulation (1976-1979; 1981-1983)

Education

• University of Pennsylvania, J.D. (1970 cum laude)
• Hamilton College, A.B. (1967 cum laude)

Honors

• The Best Lawyers in America, all editions (1982-2010); Florida-Corporate, Securities and Corporate Governance and Compliance
• Florida Super Lawyers 2006-2010
• Florida Trend Legal Elite 2005
• Member, American Law Institute
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation