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Provided by Barry J Pollack
Business Crimes, White Collar and Criminal Defense, Government Investigations and Regulatory Enforcement, Public Corruption, National Security, Antitrust, Civil Litigation, Appeals
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.”
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.
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