Barry C. Barnett
Exceptional cases only
Clients and colleagues call Barry Barnett an “incredibly gifted lawyer” (Chambers and Partners) who is “magic in the courtroom” (Who’s Who Legal), “the top antitrust lawyer in Texas” (Chambers and Partners), and “a person of unquestioned integrity” (David J. Beck, founder of Beck Redden).
Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, and Lawdragon has named him one of the top 500 lawyers in the United States three years in a row. Best Lawyers in America has honored him as “Lawyer of the Year” for Bet-the-Company Litigation (2019 and 2017) and Patent Litigation (2020) in Houston. Based in Texas and New York, Barnett has tried complex business disputes across the United States.
Barnett focuses on complex matters, particularly ones involving antitrust, energy, or intellectual property. He has represented major corporations like Alaska Airlines, Cisco Systems, Hinduja Global, Texas Instruments, KKR & Co. Inc., and Vistra Corp. He’s also battled for his clients against behemoths like Abbott Labs, AmerisourceBergen, Apple, AT&T, Bank of America, BlackBerry, Comcast, Samsung, and Visa.
Barnett projects a compelling courtroom presence. His performance before the Supreme Court in Comcast Corp. v. Behrend prompted the Court to withdraw the question on which it had granted review. The judge in a patent infringement trial called him “one of the best” and his opening statement the finest he had ever seen. Another trial judge said Barnett was one of the two best trial lawyers he’d ever come across. The other one was dead, he said.
Complete package
Barnett can handle a case from start to finish. He’s tried cases to verdict and then briefed and argued them when they went before the Second, Third, Fifth, and Tenth Circuits, the Supreme Court of Louisiana, and (in the case of Comcast Corp. v. Behrend) even the Supreme Court of the United States.
- Antitrust Law
- Energy, Oil & Gas Law
- Intellectual Property
- Free Consultation
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Contingent Fees
My firm and I prefer contingent-fee and flat-fee arrangements because they reward results and efficiency. Contingent-fee arrangements can also make litigation affordable, and flat fees provide greater certainty for cash needs.
- New York
- New York State Office of Court Administration
- ID Number: 5337001
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- Texas
- State Bar of Texas
- ID Number: 01778700
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- 2nd Circuit
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- 3rd Circuit
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- 5th Circuit
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- 10th Circuit
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- Partner
- Susman Godfrey LLP
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- Law Clerk, The Honorable Jerre S. Williams
- United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
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- Harvard University
- J.D. (1984)
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- Honors: Cum laude
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- Yale University
- B.A. (1981) | History and Economics
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- Honors: Magna cum laude and honors in History
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- Lawyer of the Year, Patent Litigation, Houston
- Best Lawyers
- Lawyer of the Year, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Houston
- Best Lawyers
- American College of Trial Lawyers
- Fellow
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- Center for American and International Law
- Trustee
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- American Law Institute
- Elected Member
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- Fee Arrangements
- Thomson West
