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Eric
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Barber
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Eric Barber is an associate in the firm's Litigation practice and focuses on insurance coverage. His insurance coverage practice includes representing policyholders in disputes with their insurance carriers under a number of different types of insurance policies (directors’ and officers’; errors and omissions; commercial general liability; blanket bonds; builders’ risk; and data breach). A majority of his representations are of large financial service companies, including mutual funds and hedge funds. Eric has also advised policyholders on a wide range of insurance issues stemming from securities and derivative litigation. Other matters include seeking insurance coverage for liabilities related to the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme; loss of employee life overseas; construction mishaps and defects; damage from Hurricanes Ike, Omar, and Rita; and environmental contamination.
Eric is co-chair of the Excess and Umbrella sub-committee of the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association.
Eric also has extensive appellate experience. He has worked on appeals across a broad spectrum of substantive areas of law and in various appellate courts around the country, including a number in the U.S. Supreme Court and the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Professional Recognition
- Named a "Rising Star" by Super Lawyers (Wisconsin), 2011, in the area of Insurance Coverage (the only policyholder-side attorney in Wisconsin to receive that honor)
- Named a Top Young Lawyer by Milwaukee Magazine, 2011
- Recipient of the Western District of Wisconsin Bar Association’s Pro Bono Service Award, 2009
Professional Leadership
- Dane County Bar Association
- Wisconsin State Bar Association, Appellate Practice Section
- Western District of Wisconsin Bar Association
- Seventh Circuit Bar Association
- American Bar Association, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, Excess and Umbrella Sub-Committee, Co-Chair
Related Employment
- Heller Ehrman LLP, Madison, WI, Associate, 2006 - 2008
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Legal Intern for Hon. Harry D. Leinenweber
Clerkships
- Hon. Richard C. Wesley, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
- Hon. Shirley S. Abrahamson, Wisconsin State Supreme Court
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- University of Wisconsin Law School, J.D., magna cum laude
Articles Editor, Wisconsin Law Review
- California State University, Los Angeles, M.A., Political Science
- University of Denver, B.A.
- California
- Wisconsin
- Illinois
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
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