Eric A. Tepper is a partner in Gordon, Tepper & DeCoursey, LLP.   Mr. Tepper graduated from Hamilton College with a B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in 1979, and from George Washington University Law School with a Juris Doctor degree, with honors, in 1982.  He is listed in the 2008 and 2007 New York Super Lawyers-Upstate Edition. New York Super Lawyers previously selected him as one of the top 25 lawyers from all categories in the Hudson Valley region, and he was only one of two  matrimonial lawyers on that list. He has been selected by his peers for inclusion in "The Best Lawyers in America," for the 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions.      Mr. Tepper is admitted to the New York and Massachusetts Bars, and to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York and the District of Massachusetts. In 1999, Mr. Tepper was appointed by New York's Chief Administrative Judge to serve on the Statewide Committee on Matrimonial Practice chaired by the Hon. Jacqueline Silbermann.  He is one of two representatives to the Statewide Matrimonial Committee from the Third Judicial Department. Mr. Tepper serves on the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association, Family Law Section, where he is co-chair of the Committee on Substantive Law Relating to the Family. He also served on the Family Law Section's ethics hot line. In 2004, Mr. Tepper was appointed to the continuing legal education committee for the New York State Bar Association.  Mr. Tepper is a member of the Schenectady County Bar Association where he is co-chair of the matrimonial committee. Mr. Tepper has lectured extensively, and written course material on family law, divorce, and matrimonial issues for judicial education and New York State Bar Association continuing legal education programs throughout New York State. He has also lectured on divorce and family law on numerous occasions at Judicial Education Seminars ("judge school"). He has lectured at judge school in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008.  He has also lectured on matrimonial law to court attorneys for the New York State Office of Court Administration.   Mr. Tepper has lectured on matrimonial law to the Appellate Division, Third Department. He has also lectured for the Business Law Institute, Capital District Women's Bar Association, Schenectady County Legal Professionals and the Schenectady County Bar Association. Mr. Tepper currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Community Justice and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts ("AFCC"). He previously was on the Board of Directors of the Northeast Parent and Child Society for nine years.  Since 2003, Mr. Tepper has served on the Editorial Board for the Lexis/Nexis publication on New York Matrimonial Actions.