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Barry Gross is a partner in the firm's White Collar Crime and Corporate Investigations practice group. His practice focuses on white collar criminal investigations, internal corporate investigations, the defense of white collar criminal prosecutions, foreign corrupt practices act violations, and complex civil litigation including civil RICO and qui tam matters, with an emphasis on matters involving healthcare issues.
A prominent former Assistant U.S. Attorney highly respected for his vigorous prosecutions of organized crime and racketeering, he served with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1983 to 2007.
Barry has more than 30 years of investigation and high profile trial experience. Barry:
acted as lead counsel and co-counsel in the investigations and racketeering trials of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra family.
led an extensive investigation into the Philadelphia Housing Authority resulting in the conviction of 12 former high-ranking officials and seven contractors on charges of extortion, bid-rigging and other charges.
has extensive experience handling racketeering investigations and criminal tax investigations and trials.
Since joining the firm Barry has participated in internal corporate investigations, environmental matters, health care fraud defense, the defense of mail, wire, bank, tax, and securities fraud allegations, civil RICO matters and a patent infringement trial.
Prior to becoming a federal prosecutor, he was an assistant district attorney for nearly seven years in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
Barry has extensive international legal experience:
His efforts resulted in the first criminal depositions taken in Belgium being admitted as evidence in a U.S. court.
He tried the first Chinese human trafficking case in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
He served as an instructor of the U.S. State Department and Justice Department conference on "Combating Organized Crime and Corruption" presented for Serbian judges, prosecutors and other law enforcement officials in Babe, Serbia, in July 2006.
Barry was recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice numerous times for his work. He received the Director's Award for Superior Performance for United States v. Stanfa and two Special Achievement Awards.
Barry is an adjunct professor in the Integrated Trial Advocacy Program at Temple University - Beasley School of Law and an adjunct professor at Widener University School of Law.
Barry is frequently asked to provide legal commentary to the news media. His analysis has recently appeared in Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times.
Barry recently was a faculty member at the Western Regional Trial Skills Program of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA) at the University of San Francisco. | 