Law.com’s Profile of Barry Pollack Spotlights Back-to-Back Victories and His Broad Criminal Law Practice

July 8, 2024

Two high-profile cases, a flood of international media coverage and a trip to London, the Northern Mariana Islands and Australia marked a whirlwind month for Harris St. Laurent’s Washington, D.C. office partner Barry J. Pollack, who was profiled in Law.com’s Am Law Litigation Daily for his recent legal victories.

The profile spotlights how Pollack’s defense of a D.C. attorney resulted in a verdict of not guilty on all counts following a two-week trial in June — while he was simultaneously negotiating a historic plea deal with the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of another of his clients, former WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange.

In “Defense Lawyer Barry Pollack On the Questions Left Unanswered After Julian Assange’s Plea Deal,” Pollack discusses the logistics of managing two cases as they both reach pivotal conclusions. He also addresses unanswered questions about Assange’s case and the ramifications of how democracies navigate national security concerns alongside a free press.

“I think the fact that his [Assange’s] case was charged has a tremendous chilling effect on journalists, and particularly national security journalists, not just in this country, but all over the world,” he said.

Pollack is widely recognized as one of the leading trial lawyers in the U.S. He represents corporations and individuals, including business professionals and high-ranking state and federal government officials, in sensitive and often headline-making criminal and government investigations, enforcement actions, criminal trials, complex commercial litigation and internal investigations. Pollack is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, a Fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers, and a past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.