Biography
Lynn E Turner is a senior advisor and managing director in the forensic accounting practice at LECG. With more than 30 years of business, regulatory, and academic experience, Mr. Turner is a noted expert on financial reporting requirements, corporate governance standards, and economic risk. At LECG, Mr. Turner focuses on complex investigations regarding financial reporting and misappropriation of assets as well as various aspects of corporate governance, securities litigation, accountant liability, and technical accounting matters.
Having worked at the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as being a member of boards of public companies, Mr. Turner has a unique perspective on financial reporting, auditing, and corporate governance issues. Additionally, Mr. Turner serves as a trustee of a mutual fund and a public pension fund, and he has held positions as a professor of accounting, a partner in a major international auditing firm, the managing director of a research firm, a chief financial officer and in 2007, Treasury Secretary Paulson appointed him to the treasury committee on the auditing profession. Mr. Turner was also actively involved in the legislative process leading up to passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Mr. Turner served as the chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from July 1998 to August 2001. As chief accountant, Mr. Turner was the principal advisor to the SEC chairman and commission on auditing and financial reporting and corporate governance matters. The issues that Mr. Turner advised on included the oversight and development of US auditing, accounting, and disclosure standards, as well as matters affecting audit committees of public companies. In his capacity as the chief accountant of the SEC, Mr. Turner has also worked regularly with Congress, various federal and state government agencies, and international regulators.
Prior to the SEC, he spent 20 years with Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers), where he was national SEC review partner and head of its national high technology audit practice.
Mr. Turner holds an MA in accounting from the University of Nebraska and a BA in business administration, with a concentration in accounting, from Colorado State University.
Profile Highlights
Employment History
- 2009 to present, LECG Senior Advisor and Managing Director
- 2001 to 2003, Internationally Recognized Proxy and Financial Research Firm Managing Director of Research and Officer
- 2001 to 2003, Forensic Accounting Firm Senior Advisor
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Education
- University of Nebraska, MA
- Colorado State University, BA