Barry Berke Wiki

Barry Berke is a nationally renowned trial lawyer who is routinely recognized as one of the leading trial lawyers and white-collar criminal defense lawyers in the country. He represents officers, directors, professionals, and corporations in sensitive and high-profile trials, investigations and other proceedings.

In his career, Barry has handled major matters on behalf of his clients involving all aspects of white-collar crime, including allegations of securities fraud, accounting, and bank fraud, RICO and FCPA violations, tax offenses, bribery, bid-rigging, and embezzlement.

Barry also represents prominent corporations, directors and officers in class action and other complex commercial litigation. However, currently, he is on a leave of absence from the firm while he serves as a consultant to the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

His client, SAC Capital Advisors fund manager Michael Steinberg, had been arrested for insider trading. The bespectacled, Harvard-educated attorney had to distill a complex set of facts into a simple argument infused with certainty. “Caught in the crossfire of aggressive investigations of others, there is no basis for even the slightest blemish on his spotless reputation,” Berke told the press.

Berke will be joined at the hearing by Daniel Goldman, a former federal prosecutor who served as the majority counsel for the House Intelligence Committee. Republican lawyer Steve Castor will also be testifying.

Barry Berke Career

He completed his education from Harvard Law School in 1989 with J.D., cum laude. In 1986, he attended uke University and graduated with B.A., summa cum laude. He was admitted to the bar in New York that same year.

He represented a former Deutsche Bank AG broker who had been accused of participating in one of the largest tax fraud cases in history. Under the terms of a rare deferred prosecution agreement with the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, all charges against our client were dismissed.

According to his website, Barry Berke also represented former SAC Capital Fund Advisors fund manager Michael Steinberg in a prominent insider-trading case that was dropped by U.S. prosecutors following the U.S. Then, he represented a former investment representative at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown in a criminal prosecution in the Southern District of New York related to what has been characterized as the largest tax fraud prosecution in U.S. history.

In September 2019, he was last on the national stage when he led the Judiciary Committee Democrats’ questioning of former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.

Barry Berke Wife

Barry Berke is married to Alison Berke. They have three children, including three daughters and a son. Berke and his family live in New York City.

Alison Berke is a personal fitness trainer and nutrition health coach and former TV news producer. According to a bio for a class she leads, All Bodies Can Do Fitness, Alison Berke worked for several years at NBC News, Reuters and as a freelance producer before starting her second career in health and fitness.

Barry Berke Net Worth

Estimated Net Worth of him is $8 Million USD as of 2019.