John Barkett

John Barkett is a partner at the Miami law firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP. He practices in areas of life sciences and biotechnology including environmental toxic tort and exposure litigation, global arbitration, and environmental litigation, regulatory counseling, and environmental due diligence, among other areas. 

Barkett has served on the American Bar Association’s standing committee on ethics and professional responsibility and is a member of the American Law Institute. He is a fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, the American College of Civil Trial Mediators, and the American College of Environmental Lawyers. He is board certified in international litigation and arbitration by the Florida Bar and is recognized internationally as a mediator and arbitrator. He is also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law.

Barkett earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Notre Dame and his JD at the Yale Law School. 

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