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Jeffrey A. Barrack

Jeffrey A. Barrack, partner in Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, has represented plaintiffs in securities fraud, antitrust and other class actions since joining the firm in 1996. He also has represented both plaintiff and defendant individual and corporate clients in environmental, consumer and business tort litigation in both state and federal courts. Before joining the firm, Mr. Barrack served under the Philadelphia District Attorney and the United States Attorney assisting in the prosecution of complex white-collar crime in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He has been repeatedly honored by the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania as an attorney whose "work has been recognized by the judiciary as exemplary.”

At BR&B, Mr. Barrack was a principal member of the litigation team in In re WorldCom, Inc. Securities Litigation, Master File No. 02-Civ-3288 (DLC), before the Honorable Denise L. Cote of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He served as the lead attorney on auditing and accounting issues in the case and participated in the four week trial of the only non-settling defendant, WorldCom’s former auditor Arthur Andersen LLP. Mr. Barrack also served as a trial attorney in In re Apollo Group Inc. Securities Litigation, Master File No. CV-04-2147 PHX-JAT, before the Honorable James A. Teilborg of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. The Apollo Group federal jury trial, which lasted over 3 months, ended in a unanimous verdict for investors in January 2008. Mr. Barrack led the successful loss causation evidentiary and expert presentation that was instrumental in yielding this post-Dura Pharmaceuticals securities litigation jury verdict.

Mr. Barrack has successfully advocated corporate governance and excessive executive compensation reforms through shareholder rights claims asserted in direct and derivative cases alleging corporate directors’ breaches of fiduciary and other legal duties. Mr. Barrack was a principal member of the litigation team in Resnick v. Occidental Petroleum, et al., Case No. 10-cv-00390, before the Honorable Robert F. Kelly, presiding by special designation in the District of Delaware, which resulted in benefits described by the Court as “meaningful change” to the company’s executive compensation and reporting policies and practices that “affords valuable consideration to Occidental and its shareholders.”

Mr. Barrack has lectured on private securities litigation at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University, and has been a featured columnist on securities litigation in The Legal Intelligencer, the oldest law journal in the United States, and has written on trial practice for the American Journal of Trial Advocacy.

Education:

Temple University School of Law (J.D. 1996)
Boston College (M.A., Developmental Psychology, 1992)
Clark University (B.A., Philosophy, 1990)

Admissions:

Pennsylvania, 1996
New York, 2009
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

Publications:

Child Advocacy Is an Effective Way to Pursue Justice
EZine, June 29, 2010.

Are Stealth Financial Reporting Studies a Warning for Buyer to Beware?
The Legal Intelligencer, vol 240, no. 121, p.5 (December 18, 2009)

Study Confirms: Institutional Investors Promote Purpose of Securities Laws
The Legal Intelligencer, vol 240, no. 40, p.5 (August 25, 2009)

Public Bond Issuers Seek Costs Caused by Insurers
The Legal Intelligencer, vol. 239, no. 100, p.7 (May 26, 2009).

Courts Clarify Road Map for Investment Managers to Lead Securities Cases
The Legal Intelligencer, vol. 239, no. 36, p.5 (February 24, 2009)

Monitoring Settlements, Distributions in Securities Class Action Litigation
The Legal Intelligencer, vol. 238, no. 104, p.5 (November 25, 2008)

Rating Agencies Suffer From Conflicts of Interest
The Legal Intelligencer, vol 238, no. 40, p.7 (August 26, 2008)

A Primer on Taking a Securities Fraud Class Action to Trial
American Journal of Trial Advocacy, vol. 31:471 (Spring 2008)

Tips for Investors Considering Transnational Securities Litigation
The Legal Intelligencer, vol. 237, no. 122, p.5 (June 24, 2008)

Public Pension Funds Protect the Integrity of United States Capital Markets by Leading Securities Fraud Class Actions Through Trial
The NAPPA Report, vol. 22, no. 2, p.6 (May 2008)

Shift in Litigation Strategy Sends More Securities Cases to Trial
The Legal Intelligencer, vol. 237, no. 58, p.7 (March 25, 2008)

Supreme Court Renders Investor-Friendly Decision in Tellabs
The Legal Intelligencer, vol. 236, no. 41, p.7 (August 28, 2007)

Buyer Beware: Private Securities Litigation is Under Attack Again
The Legal Intelligencer, vol. 235, no. 79, p.7 (April 24, 2007)

Sarbanes-Oxley and U.S. Capital Market Competitiveness
The Legal Intelligencer, Corporate Governance Supplement, p.CG5 (November 20, 2006)

Does High Court Mean the Buyer Must Beware in Securities Markets?
The Legal Intelligencer, vol. 234, no. 58, p.5 (September 25, 2006)

Investment Bank Accountability for the Issuance of Fairness Opinions
The Legal Intelligencer, vol. 234, no. 98, p.5 (May 22, 2006)

What’s Become of Underwriting Due Diligence Since WorldCom?
The Legal Intelligencer, vol. 233, no. 14, p.5 (January 23, 2006)

A Note on Auditor Responsibility from the WorldCom Securities Litigation
Barrack Bulletin, Vol. 9 (Fall 2005)

Auditor Responsibility under the Federal Securities Laws: a Note from the WorldCom Securities Litigation
American Journal of Trial Advocacy, Vol. 29:1 (Summer 2005)

DaimlerChrysler Agrees to Pay $300 Million to Settle Class Action
Barrack Bulletin, Vol. 7 (Fall 2003)

Does “5-in-3” Rule Apply to Institutions? SEC Says No
Barrack Bulletin, Vol. 2 (Spring 2001)

An Essay on the Continuing Revaluation of Values
7(2) Journal of Ethical Studies 3 (1992)

Memberships:

American Bar Association
Louis D. Brandeis Law Society
National Association of Public Pension Attorneys

Contact:

Jeffrey A. Barrack
e: jbarrack@barrack.com
p: 215/963-0600
f: 215/963-0838

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