Profile

Howard S. Meyers joined the faculty of New York Law School in the Fall 2004 to co-found and teach the Securities Arbitration Clinic. In addition, he has taught Corporations and Commercial Law and created Business Basics for Lawyers and Accounting, Data Analytics, and Financial Reporting courses that are uniquely tailored for students with limited business backgrounds. Professor Meyers is also Director of the Center for Business Financial Law and Director of the Ronald H. Filler Institute for Financial Services Law which bring practitioners and students together to address business and finance challenges through cutting-edge courses, events, projects, and research.

Prior to joining NYLS, Professor Meyers served as commercial litigation associate at Paul Hastings LLP. Immediately after law school, he served as a staff attorney in the Northeast Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Enforcement, located in New York City. During his tenure with the SEC, he was responsible for investigating and litigating complex cases involving sales practice abuses committed by stockbrokers, fraudulent financing and Ponzi schemes, accounting fraud, and the sale of unregistered securities by various public companies. Prior to graduating from law school, Professor Meyers was a senior accountant at the international accounting firm of KPMG. While at KPMG, he earned his certified public accountant license and was responsible for auditing the financial statements of several Fortune 500 companies and regional broker-dealers.

Among Professor Meyers’s publications are “Recovering Unpaid Bonus Payments in Turbulent Times,” published in the New York Law Journal; “Schedule D: Looking Behind the Numbers to Provide Better Client Service,” published in The Trusted Professional; and “Finder’s Fee Agreements: Pitfalls and Considerations,” published in the New York Law Journal. He has appeared as a guest legal commentator on CNBC, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC, BBC and Fox News and is quoted frequently in the financial press.