Honors and Awards:

• Mr. Barnes has been selected for inclusion on the 2011 Super Lawyers Rising Stars list in the area of Business Litigation (no more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in New York State are named to the list)., 2011 Super Lawyers Rising Star List, 2011

Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Panel of Mediators, Commercial Division of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County, 2010

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Mr. Barnes is licensed to practice in New York and New Jersey, and is admitted to the United States District Courts for the Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of New York, as well as the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Mr. Barnes is a Member of the Catholic Charities Volunteer Lawyers Initiative, which organization provides free legal advice and services to needy members of the community.  In the Summer of 2007, Mr. Barnes served as a Member of the Steering Committee for the Third Annual Long Island Business News Golf Outing and Casino Night for the benefit Hofstra University’s Scholarship Fund.  From 2002 through 2004, Mr. Barnes served as member of the Board of Directors for the Cross Island YMCA.

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Mr. Barnes has written nearly three dozen articles which have been featured in his monthly column for the Suffolk County Bar Association’s periodical, The Suffolk Lawyer, focusing exclusively on commercial litigation.  In addition to these regular contributions, Mr. Barnes has likewise authored articles for The New York Law Journal, including: Substantiating Malice for Tortious Interference Claim Getting Difficult, New York Law Journal, August 19, 2010; ‘Economic Interest’ Defense to a Tortious Interference Claim, 236 New York Law Journal 56, September 20, 2006; Spies, Lies & Business Torts, 235 New York Law Journal 90, May 10, 2006; Defense Protocol for Elevator Accidents, 232 New York Law Journal 109, December 7, 2004; and To Jump or Not to Jump? Elevator Accidents and Employment Expertise, 223 New York Law Journal 24, February 4, 2000.  When the New York State Court of Appeals issued White Plains Coat & Apron Co. v. Cintas Corp., a significant decision for commercial litigation practitioners, Mr. Barnes was interviewed and quoted in the ensuing New York Law Journal article reporting the decision and its import on commercial litigation practice. 
• In November 2011, Mr. Barnes was selected to participate as a Panel Member for the New York State Bar Association's Judicial Institute on Professionalism annual Convocation on Lawyer Independence, addressing Challenges and Best Practices for Solo and Small Firm Practitioners.   As part of the Institute’s mandate to examine and promote professionalism in the practice of law, the Institute examined the particular challenges solo and small firm practitioners confront in serving their clients.  This Convocation, the third in the series, continued the review of lawyer independence, a fundamental foundation of professionalism in the law, from the perspective of lawyers who practice in small firms or maintain a solo practice., Panel Member, NYS Bar Ass'n Convocation on Lawyer Independence

Other Outstanding Achievements:

• Mr. Barnes was appointed as a Receiver by a United States District Court Judge in a Federal Court, seven-figure, mortgage foreclosure action related to a commercial mixed-use property within the City of New York; the Receivership appointment documented a rent collection diversion scheme intended to deprive the lending institution of operational income, resulting in the recovery of counsel fees incident to the same.   
• Mr. Barnes was designated by a Commercial Division Justice to serve as a discovery referee in a highly-contested dissolution proceeding pending in that Court.  

Educational Background:

• B.A. Hofstra University School of Liberal Arts & Sciences (1993) J.D., Hofstra University School of Law (1996)