Barry is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, as well as past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He regularly handles criminal matters involving allegations of wrongdoing related to financial and business crimes, public corruption, and national security, including cases involving alleged antitrust violations, fraud in government contracting, and fraud related to securities, taxes, health care or banking and financial services. His civil litigation practice involves complex commercial disputes, False Claims Act allegations related to government contracting and health care, securities fraud, First Amendment issues, Civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) charges, and professional negligence or breach of fiduciary duty.  As a former certified public accountant (CPA), a substantial amount of Barry’s work involves criminal and civil litigation of complex financial matters.

Earlier in his career, Barry was a partner at the renowned D.C. white collar criminal defense law firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin LLP, and later served as Assistant Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Barry has had numerous notable successes throughout his career.

• He negotiated a plea agreement that resulted in the immediate release from prison of long-time client Julian Assange, publisher of WikiLeaks, who had been charged with violating the Espionage Act for publishing classified information leaked by Chelsea Manning.
• After two jury trials in Houston, Texas, he obtained the complete acquittal of a former Enron Corp. executive on criminal fraud charges, one of only two cases that resulted in acquittals in the numerous prosecutions arising out of the collapse of Enron. He also obtained the dismissal of a related Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement action.
• Represented Martin Tankleff, a Long Island, New York man, whose convictions were reversed and all charges against him dismissed after he had served seventeen years in prison, having been wrongfully convicted of murdering his parents as a teenager. The Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project honored Barry with its Defender of Innocence Award and the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers honored him with its Gideon Champion of Justice Award. Barry then represented Mr. Tankleff in civil suits, obtaining $13.4 million in compensation.
• Obtained not guilty verdicts in a criminal jury trial in which the client, a prominent Washington D.C. lawyer, had been charged with sexual assault.
• Secured the pre-trial dismissal of the indictment of a government employee charged in federal court in Washington D.C. with accepting bribes.
• Negotiated a plea agreement resulting in probation for a medical oncologist who had been charged with violating antitrust laws, following a federal jury trial in Ft. Myers, Florida ended in a mistrial.
• Secured the dismissal of an indictment in a federal criminal antitrust case alleging collusion in the poultry industry after two lengthy trials in Denver, Colorado, each ending in a hung jury and no convictions.
• In a case where Barry was retained after guilty verdicts in a federal criminal bribery trial in Sherman, Texas, he won an order overturning the convictions and ordering a new trial, and successfully defended that result on appeal to the Fifth Circuit.
• Obtained not guilty verdicts on charges of bribery against the co-founder of a government defense contractor following a federal criminal jury trial in Alexandria, Virginia.
• Secured the complete reversal on appeal in the Ninth Circuit for a client who had been convicted in a federal jury trial in Tucson, Arizona of conspiracy and embezzlement from an insurance company in an alleged scheme to enrich a U.S. congressman.
• Obtained a writ of actual innocence and compensation for a man wrongfully convicted of a homicide in Baltimore, Maryland, which had resulted in him serving 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit.
• Achieved the reversal of a wrongful homicide conviction against a New York City man, who was released after eighteen years in prison.

RECOGNITIONS

Chambers USA, Band One for White Collar Crime and Government Investigations

·   “Barry is simply one of the best in our profession. His lawyering is sublime.”

·   “Barry is a legend in the white-collar world.”

·   “He is very astute, client-driven and a pleasure to work alongside.”

Legal 500 U.S. City Elite Lawyers ranking for white-collar crime

Benchmark Litigation – National Practice Area Leader

Benchmark Litigation – Litigation Star

Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators

Who’s Who Legal: Business Crime Defence

AFFILIATIONS

Board member of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and a board member and past president of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project.

Adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, teaching “Anatomy of a Federal Criminal Trial.”