Barry J Pollack

Practice Areas

Business Crimes, White Collar and Criminal Defense, Government Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement, Public Corruption, National Security, Antitrust, Civil Litigation, Appeals

Career

Barry J. Pollack is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and is widely recognized as one of the leading trial lawyers in the country. He has more than 30 years’ experience representing individuals and corporations in sensitive and often high-profile investigations and trials. His clients include senior executives and high-ranking government officials. As a former certified public accountant (CPA), a substantial amount of Mr. Pollack’s work involves criminal and civil litigation involving complex financial matters. In his criminal practice, Mr. Pollack regularly handles matters involving allegations of fraudulent conduct, false statements and other wrongdoing related to financial and business crimes, public corruption, national security, antitrust violations, government contracting, securities, taxes, and health care. His civil practice includes complex commercial disputes, False Claims Act allegations related to government contracting and health care, First Amendment issues, fraud, civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), employment discrimination, and professional negligence. Mr. Pollack is known for his skills in the courtroom. Clients and others have described Mr. Pollack to Chambers USA as a “thorough and deep-thinking lawyer” who “lives, breathes and sleeps trials, and has such a natural way in front of juries.”

Professional Memberships

In addition to being a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, Mr. Pollack is a Fellow in the American Board of Criminal Lawyers and is a past-president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project. He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches “Anatomy of a Federal Criminal Trial.” Mr. Pollack is also a board member of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and of Rising for Justice.

Work Highlights

Mr. Pollack had had many notable successes in his career, including: i) Obtaining a complete acquittal for a former Enron Corp. executive on fraud charges following a federal jury trial in Houston and the dismissal of a related SEC enforcement action; ii) Securing the dismissal of an indictment alleging price fixing in the poultry industry following two jury trials in Colorado in a federal criminal antitrust case; iii) Winning an order overturning the convictions in a federal public corruption case in Texas, obtaining a new trial, and successfully defending that result on appeal to the Fifth Circuit; iv) Obtaining not guilty verdicts on behalf of a government contractor following a federal criminal jury trial in Virginia; v) Securing the complete reversal on appeal for a client convicted in a federal jury trial in Arizona of conspiracy and embezzlement from an insurance company in an alleged scheme to enrich a U.S. Congressman; and vi) Obtaining a non-prosecution agreement from the DOJ and no action by the SEC for a former AIG executive who had been a target of the investigations. Mr. Pollack is also known for his pro bono work. He has successfully represented three different clients who had been wrongfully convicted of murder and had served decades in prison. The Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project has honored Mr. Pollack 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.

Education