Anthony J. Costantini

concentrates his practice in the areas of professional liability, securities and commercial litigation, and he is the head of the Firm's Professional Liability practice. In addition, he represents clients in alternative dispute resolution, administrative hearings and governmental and professional association investigations. He also has considerable appellate experience, being admitted by eight of the federal appellate circuits.

Mr. Costantini formerly served as associate general counsel to KPMG Peat Marwick and as regional counsel to the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

He is a member of the Professional Liability Committee of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association and is also a member of the Commodities and Futures Committee and a former member of the executive committee of the Business Law Section of the same Association. Additionally, he has been a member of the Accounting and the Law Committee of the American Bar Association and the Litigation Committee of The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and is presently a member of the Corporation Litigation Counsel Committee of that same Association. He is also a court-trained mediator for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and has mediated a number of cases. From 2006 to 2009, he was a public member of the Auditing Standards Board, which sets U.S. auditing standards for the accounting profession. In 2013, he was invited to become an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.

Mr. Costantini is a 1972 graduate of Columbia University School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review, and a graduate of the University of Detroit, with an engineering degree.

Experience

•Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 1997-present
•Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan LLP, New York, New York and Washington D.C.
- Partner, 1994-1997
•KPMG Peat Marwick, New York, New York
- Associate General Counsel, 1983-1994
•United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission, New York, New York and Washington, D.C.
- Regional Counsel, 1980-1982
•Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York, New York
- Associate, 1972-1979
•Mediator, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2000-present

Honors and Awards

•AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Publications and Speaking Engagements

Selected Publications

•Co-author, Religious Worship Services After-Hours in School Facilities Prohibited by NYC Rule and Sustained by Second Circuit, Duane Morris Alert, June 14, 2011
•Co-author, Supreme Court Sets Stage for Skirmish on Price Impact and Securities Class Certification, Duane Morris Alert, June 10, 2011
• What's Ahead in Enforcement, article on PCAOB enforcement issues, Journal of Accountancy, September 2004
•The Constitutional Implications of the Jurisdictional Amount Provisions, Columbia Law Review, 1971
•Cooperative Housing Corporations and the Federal Securities Laws, Columbia Law Review, 1971

Selected Speaking Engagements

•Speaker, The Knowledge Congress
•Teacher, National Judicial College
•Speaker, Practicing Law Institute
•Speaker, Association of Management Consulting Firms
•Speaker, Rhode Island Bar Association
•Speaker, New York State Bar Association