Honorable David J. Ayres is Managing Partner at Barket Epstein Kearon Aldea & LoTurco. In addition to overseeing the firm's day-to-day operations, he represents clients in state and federal court.

Judge Ayres, who served for a decade as a Nassau County Judge and as an Acting Justice of the New York State Supreme Court in Nassau County since 2005, began his legal career as a trial attorney in the Nassau County District Attorney's Office and then spent six years as Principal Law Clerk to a Nassau County Court Judge. In 2003, he was elected to the Nassau County Court, and at 37 years old, was the youngest person to be elected to a countywide judgeship in Nassau County. During his tenure in Criminal Term, he presided over more than 100 felony criminal jury trials and thousands of pre-trial proceedings.

Judge Ayres also has experience as an Acting Family Court Judge, where he presided over matrimonial and civil matters in New York State Supreme Court. He also presided over the Mental Hygiene Court and the Integrated Domestic Violence Court and was selected to help establish and preside over the first Sex Offense court created in New York State.

A graduate of Adelphi University and Hofstra School of Law, he was admitted to practice in New York in 1994. Judge Ayres is a lifelong resident of Nassau County, and is a longstanding volunteer soccer, baseball and basketball coach.

Judge Ayres is based in the firm’s Garden City office at 666 Old Country Road.