Barry McNeil has more than 40 years of experience as a trial lawyer, with the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice and in private practice. He defends companies and senior officers before juries throughout the country in corporate and antitrust criminal prosecutions and parallel civil proceedings and class proceedings. He also represents lawyers and law firms in civil and criminal proceedings.
Over the years he has, in jury trials, prosecuted and defended cases involving civil and criminal fraud, civil and criminal conspiracy, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, RICO, DTPA and state common law claims. In The National Law Journal's "Biggest Defense Verdict of 1999," Mr. McNeil led the successful defense of a national health care provider, winning a "slam-dunk defense verdict" in a fraud and conspiracy case. (NLJ, May 22, 2000.) Other trials involving charges of RICO, conspiracy, commercial bribery and fraud have resulted in take-nothing judgments on claimed losses of millions of dollars.
Mr. McNeil has been recognized by Chambers USA from 2006-2014 as a leading practitioner in antitrust law in Texas and was ranked nationally in 2014. Over the last decade, Mr. McNeil has represented companies and executives in numerous international pricing cartel cases in the vitamins, graphite electrodes, food flavor enhancers, food and feed additives, D-RAM, and LCD and CRT industries. He annually addresses U.S. lawyers and foreign enforcement authorities on the defense of international pricing cartels at the ABA’s International Antitrust Forum.
He represents Fortune 500 companies in Internal Corporate Investigations and in proceedings before the SEC and the Antitrust Division of the DOJ and in lawsuits involving claims of monopolization, price fixing, healthcare fraud and securities violations. Mr. McNeil is ranked as one of fifteen top litigators in the trial bar by International Commercial Litigation, as one of ten top lawyers in Texas by Texas Monthly, and as one of the Best Antitrust Lawyers in Dallas by D Magazine (2008-2009, 2011-2014, and multiple prior years). He was recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer in Antitrust Litigation (2007-20143), a Top 100 Dallas/Fort Worth Region Super Lawyer and a Top 100 Texas Super Lawyer (2010-2013). He has been recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in America in Antitrust Law; Commercial Litigation; White-Collar Criminal Defense; Bet-the-Company Litigation (2010-2015), Litigation - Antitrust, Litigation - Mergers & Acquisitions, Litigation - Regulatory, and Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy) (2012-2015); and recognized as a "2015 Lawyer of the Year" in Litigation by Best Lawyers, as well as Best Lawyers' 2013 Dallas Antitrust Lawyer of the Year and 2011 Dallas Antitrust Lawyer of the Year. Mr. McNeil is AV® Peer Review Rated Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell® Law Directory. He is frequently retained by Special Litigation Committees, audit committees and outside directors of publicly held companies to conduct internal corporate investigations arising under federal and state securities and antitrust laws, federal criminal statutes and conspiracy to defraud violations.
He is co-editor of the Third Edition of the widely published handbook: Internal Corporate Investigations. Mr. McNeil is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a former Chair of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association.
Mr. McNeil led a pro bono team of Haynes and Boone attorneys in a seven-year effort on behalf of two indigent Mexican nationals wrongly convicted and given life sentences for a murder they could not have committed. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered that both defendants be given new trials, a grand jury declined to indict, setting them free after 12 years in prison.
For the team's effort, Haynes and Boone was awarded the 2008 W. Frank Newton Award for outstanding pro bono work.
