Barry Boss

Practice Areas

Barry is co-chair of Cozen O’Connor’s Commercial Litigation Department and co-chair of the firm's White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice Group.

Career

Barry focuses his practice on complex criminal matters, particularly involving allegations of white-collar crime in federal court. Barry has extensive jury trial and appellate experience and has successfully defended individuals and corporations under scrutiny for a wide range of criminal activity throughout the country, including price-fixing, money laundering, fraud, environmental offenses, gambling, bribery, corruption, and racketeering. He also advises individuals, including senior and c-suite executives, in complex internal and government-facing investigations, often involving several multinational jurisdictions and authorities. Barry has significant experience in sentencing and currently serves as a co-chair of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section Sentencing Committee. He frequently writes and speaks about sentencing issues, and serves as a sentencing expert for national media organizations. Barry co-authors Federal Criminal Practice, an 800-page treatise for criminal defense attorneys. Prior to joining Cozen O’Connor in April 2004, Barry was an assistant federal public defender in Washington, D.C.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association; American Board of Criminal Lawyers; DC Association of Criminal Lawyers; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Edward Bennett Williams Inn of Courts.

Publications

Rerouting the Wire Act: Can Statutory Interpretation Save the Wire Act from the Threat of Intermediate Routing Prosecutions? [Gaming International Online] - Oct. 1, 2021

How the Economic Loss Guideline Lost its Way, and How to Save It [Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law] - Aug.23, 2021

The Department of Justice Announces the First-of-its-Kind Cryptocurrency Enforcement Framework [Alert] - Oct. 9, 2020

Half-Baked: The Yates Memo Calls for Charging More Offenders, But How Do We Sentence Them? - July 2, 2018

Understanding the DOJ's Airlines Antitrust Investigation [Corporate Counsel] - Aug. 3, 2015

Immaculate Suspension: Non-Analytical Positive Doping Violations from USADA to MLB [Entertainment and Sports Lawyer] - Mar. 31, 2014