Jeffrey A. Barker
Partner
Jeffrey A. Barker is a partner in O’Melveny’s Century City office and a member of the Business Trial and Litigation Practice. Handling disputes for both plaintiffs and defendants, Jeff has successfully litigated contract, alter ego, partnership, audit, and accounting cases at both the trial and appellate levels. Jeff’s practice also includes copyright, trademark/trade dress, privacy, First Amendment, and white collar criminal/financial matters. As a trial lawyer, Jeff has been involved in numerous high-profile cases that have garnered national and international media attention.
Illustrative Professional Experience
Recent Trial and Litigation Experience
- Defending a designer and distributer of toning footwear in nationwide litigation in state and federal courts involving individual and class-based claims for alleged unfair competition, false advertising, and personal injuries
- Member of the trial team that defeated accounting and mismanagement claims against a national homebuilder brought by a real estate developer seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and, instead, secured a US$54 million judgment, including attorneys’ fees, against the plaintiff
- Lead counsel in obtaining dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction for multinational construction services corporation in action by utility asserting alter ego and agency liability arising out of US$100 million power plant dispute
- Represented significant music industry figure in resolving privacy, misappropriation, and Lanham Act claims against major motion picture studios
- Member of the team that defended the former President, COO, and CEO of Enron in a four-month criminal trial and is currently defending the executive on appeal and in numerous civil proceedings
- Member of the trial team that won a judgment at trial defeating alter ego liability for a multinational energy company
- Lead counsel for independent producer of documentary films in successful action to recover misappropriated documentary footage
- Member of the team that successfully prosecuted claims of trade dress and design patent infringement on behalf of a global designer and manufacturer of personal computers
- Member of the team that successfully defended one of the largest global designers and manufacturers of personal computers in a trademark infringement action brought by a provider of real-time operating system software
Professional Activities
Law Clerk, Honorable William J. Rea, US District Court, Central District of California
Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association; Beverly Hills Bar Association; Association of Business Trial Lawyers; California State Bar, Intellectual Property Law and Litigation Sections; Member and Former Co-Chair, UCLA Entertainment Law Symposium Advisory Committee; Volunteer TAPP Prosecutor, City of Redondo Beach
Honors, named a “Rising Star” for Entertainment Litigation in a survey conducted by Law & Politics Media Inc. and published in
Los Angeles magazine (2004)