Barry N. Covert
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Barry N. Covert
Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLPTotal Records: 1Biography
Barry N. Covert focuses his practice primarily in the following areas:
New York State and federal criminal trials and appealsConstitutional law, including First Amendment, Second Amendment, and civil rights actionsQui Tam Act, also known as the False Claims ActDefending against allegations of scientific misconduct, scientific fraud, research misconduct, research
fraud, plagiarism, and fabrication of evidenceDefense of professional licensing, including for attorneys, doctors, and nursesTitle IX issues
Bar Admission
New York, 1990
Other Affiliations
New York State Bar Association (Member)
Erie County Community Corrections Advisory Board (Member)
Bar Association of Erie County (Member)
New York State Association of Criminal Defense Attorney (Member)
First Amendment Lawyers Association (Member)
The Moot Court Board, 1988 - 1989 (Member)
Achievements
- Other Sources of Feedback About Barry N. Covert
- Included on the 2023 Upstate New York
Past Lists
- 2022 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list
- 2021 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list
- 2018 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list
- 2017 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list
- 2016 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list
- 2015 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list
- 2014 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list
- 2013 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list
- 2012 New York Super Lawyers Super Lawyers list
- 2011 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list
- 2010 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list
- 2009 Upstate New York Super Lawyers list
Education
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State University of New York, Fredonia, New York, 1986 B.A.
Honors: cum laude
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State University of New York, Buffalo School of Law, Buffalo, New York, 1989 J.D.
Honers
- Named to Best Lawyers in America
- Named to Business First/Buffalo Law Journal Who's Who in Law, 2012 - Present
- Named to the Top 50 among all attorneys named to New York Super Lawyers, Upstate Ed.
- Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year 2014, Named "Buffalo Best Lawyers Litigation - Land Use and Zoning Lawyer of the Year" for 2014 by Best Lawyers in America
- Named to The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100
- Named to Business First/Buffalo Law Journal's Legal Elite of WNY for Criminal Defense
- America’s Top 100 Attorneys Lifetime Achievement Membership
- AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Upstate New York Super Lawyers
- Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year, Litigation—Land Use and Zoning Lawyer of the Year, 2018 - Present
- Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year, Criminal Defense: White-Collar Lawyer of the Year, 2015 - Present
- Legal Elite of Western New York Top 10, Business First/Buffalo Law Journal