Our Team

Barry’s practice focuses on complex civil litigation, primarily for insurers and their insureds, and advising and representing law firms with respect to the myriad of issues they encounter.

Barry has more than 40-years of experience as an attorney. His practice includes a variety of legal malpractice, commercial, and bad-faith litigation. He has served as lead counsel in the defense of numerous national class actions filed in state and federal courts across the country. His practice includes the defense of complex cases for and on behalf of law firms and domestic and foreign insurers in high-exposure cases. Barry has tried to juries more than 40 of those cases, all resulting in defense verdicts. Barry also has substantial experience in major reinsurance arbitration matters, representing both domestic and foreign insurers and reinsurers.

Barry also is uniquely qualified to advise law firms. He served for 15 years on Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld’s Management Committee; for 5 years on that firm’s Executive Committee; and was the firm’s General Counsel for a decade. He understands how modern firms function and the intricate and complicated issues they face. As General Counsel, he oversaw all claims against the firm; oversaw conflict issues; managed new business intake and docketing; designed, implemented, and managed firm-wide compliance initiatives as required under foreign and domestic regulatory regimes; oversaw amendments to the partnership agreement; and negotiated and managed the firm’s professional liability insurance. Barry has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America every year since 2008 for his work in Bet-the-Company Litigation and Commercial Litigation. He was also named the Best Lawyers^® 2013 Bet-the-Company Litigation “Lawyer of the Year” in San Antonio.