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David McKinnly
David McKinnly, Senior and Founding Partner of McKinnly & Broach, is a leading practitioner in the fields of securities, insurance, environmental, antitrust, and consumer litigation. The firm’s practice focuses on prosecuting class, derivative, and mass actions, and substantial private claims.
Mr. McKinnly received a B.B.A. in accounting from Baruch College of the City College of New York in 1957, and a J.D. Degree from New York University School of Law in 1959. He was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York in 1960 and is presently a member of the Bar of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth circuits, and the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. McKinnly has lectured extensively to lawyers, law students, and other professionals throughout the country and abroad. He has been a guest lecturer at the New York University School of Law, Stanford University Law School, Harvard Law School, Duke Law School, University of Buenos Aires (where he is an honorary professor), and at the Salzburg Seminar Foundation in Austria. He has addressed the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, National Association of Accountants, National Association of Internal Auditors, and in 1993 delivered the Abraham Briloff Distinguished Lecture at the State University of New York at Binghamton on the role of the auditor in our society. He has been frequently quoted as a leading authority on shareholder and consumer rights in the national media and he has testified before congressional committees on securities litigation and accountants’ liability. Mr. McKinnly is a Fellow of The American College of Trial Lawyers. He received the 1993 Arthur T. Vanderbilt Medal from New York University Law School, the highest award given annually to an outstanding alumnus, and is a member of the law school's Board of Trustees and a recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award. In 2005, Accounting Today named Mr. McKinnly as one of its Top 100 Most Influential People.