Barry Pollack

Barry J. Pollack is widely recognized as one of the leading trial lawyers in the country.  He is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a Fellow in the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, and past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.  Mr. Pollack has over 30 years of experience representing individuals, including executives and high-ranking government officials, as well as corporations and other organizations, in sensitive and often high-profile trials and investigations.  

In his criminal practice, he handles matters involving allegations of wrongdoing related to business crimes, public corruption, and national security, involving alleged antitrust violations, fraud in government contracting or related to securities, taxes, health care or banking and financial services. 
As a former certified public accountant (CPA), a substantial amount of his work involves litigation of complex financial matters.

Updated Sep 2025

• Represented Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who was charged with violating the Espionage Act for publishing classified information.  Negotiated agreement that resulted in his release.
  
  
• After two lengthy federal criminal trials alleging price fixing in the poultry industry, both of which ended in mistrials with no convictions, obtained the dismissal of the case against his client.
  
  
• Represented an executive of a government contractor charged with bribing a government official to obtain contracts, obtained acquittals on all counts following a federal criminal jury trial in Virginia.
  
  
• In a case where he was retained after trial, won a new trial for two defendants who had been convicted of public corruption after a federal trial in the Eastern District of Texas and successfully defended that decision on appeal.
  
  
• Represented the chief defense counsel of the Guantánamo Bay Military Commissions pro bono in a federal habeas action successfully obtained the reversal of a ruling by a military judge finding the defense counsel in contempt of court.

• Appellate
• Commercial disputes
• Competition/antitrust
• Government and regulatory
• White collar crime

• Accounting
• Financial services
• Government and public policy
• Healthcare

• JD - Georgetown University Law Center - 1991

• American College of Trial Lawyers - 2008
• American Board of Criminal Lawyers - 2013
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers - President 2016-2017

• District of Columbia    
• Maryland    
• New York    
• United States Supreme Court