| Biography | Barry Gross, a former federal prosecutor, is a partner in the firm's White Collar Criminal Defense 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 (FCPA) and complex civil litigation including civil RICO and qui tam matters. A significant part of Barry's practice involves the representation of attorneys in federal criminal investigations. Barry has more than 30 years of investigation and high profile trial experience. He has participated in the defense of mail, wire, bank, tax, securities fraud allegations, and allegations of violations of the FCPA, internal corporate investigations, environmental matters, health care fraud defense, civil RICO matters, a patent infringement trial, and bankruptcy litigation. Barry has tried over two hundred Federal and State jury trials to verdict. Barry's recent engagements: represented a company based in China and its CEO in federal court in a case involving import/export violations; represented the General Counsel of a firm in a FCPA prosecution in Washington, D.C.; represented the former Chairman of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission in a federal investigation; represented a large mechanical contractor in a federal civil RICO action; represented a national insurance company in a civil RICO action in federal court in Massachusetts; conducted an internal investigation on behalf of a Special Committee of the Board of a non-profit organization; and conducted an internal investigation of alleged environmental violations on behalf of a Special Committee of the Board of Directors. Prior to joining the firm, Barry served as an Assistant United States Attorney with the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1983-2007; and as an Assistant District Attorney in Delaware County, Pennsylvania from 1976-1983. While an Assistant United States Attorney, 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 former high-ranking officials and contractors on charges of extortion, bid-rigging and other charges; handled one of the largest federal criminal trademark cases; handled numerous racketeering investigations and criminal tax investigations and trials; had admitted the first criminal depositions taken in Belgium as evidence in a U.S. court; tried the first Chinese human trafficking case in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; and served as an instructor in Serbia for the U.S. Justice Department and U.S. State Department. Barry was recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice numerous times for his work. He received the Director's Award for Superior Performance and two Special Achievement Awards. Barry served as an adjunct professor in the Integrated Trial Advocacy Program at Temple University - Beasley School of Law for 10 years, as an adjunct professor at Widener University School of Law for 10 years and serves as a faculty member for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA). He is also a Master in the University of Pennsylvania American Inn of Court Barry is frequently asked to provide legal commentary to the news media. His analysis has appeared in Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, on NPR, FOX News, CBS, NBC, ABC and other national and local outlets. |