Thomas D. Barr
Thomas D. Barr | |
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| Born | Thomas Delbert Barr January 23, 1931 |
| Died | January 24, 2008 (aged 77) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale Law School University of Missouri–Kansas City |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Employer | Cravath, Swaine & Moore |
| Spouse | Cornelia Barr |
| Children | Four[1] |
Thomas Delbert Barr (January 23, 1931 – January 24, 2008) was a prominent lawyer at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore.[2]
Early life
He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Missouri–Kansas City in 1953[3] and Yale Law School, and served as an officer in the Marine Corps.
Legal work
He joined Cravath in 1958 and stayed with the firm for more than 40 years.[4]
Barr is best known for representing the International Business Machines Corporation in a 13-year antitrust battle with the federal government, as well as satellite cases by competitors and the EEC. The government began the case in 1969 and dropped it in 1982. For his outstanding efforts and the scale of the case, Barr is credited as the father of big-case litigation.[5] The case is described in details in The Partners by James B. Stewart and in IBM:The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon by James W Cortada.
Other major cases included Powell v. McCormack, over the attempt to exclude Adam Clayton Powell Jr. from taking his seat in the US House of Representatives; the defense of Time Magazine in the libel case brought by Ariel Sharon, relating to the Sabra and Shatila massacre; the effort to recover on behalf of holders of defaulted municipal bonds issued by Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS); and the prosecution on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) against Drexel Burnham Lambert and Michael Milken over fraudulent junk bonds. His major pro bono work included cases for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
See also
- Bruce Bromley, his colleague and mentor at Cravath
External[6] links
- ABA Journal: Ex-Cravath Lawyer Dies, Father of ‘Big-Case Litigation’
- TIME: The Case of the Century
- New York Times: Target: Drexel. Weapon: Tom Barr.
References
- ^ Thomas Barr, Top Lawyer in I.B.M. Case, Dies at 77
- ^ Thomas Barr, Top Lawyer in I.B.M. Case, Dies at 77 - The New York Times
- ^ "ABOUT UMKC - UMKC Grads Making A Difference". Archived from the original on June 6, 2008. Retrieved 2006-09-07.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Liptak, Adam (January 30, 2008). "Thomas Barr, Top Lawyer in I.B.M. Case, Dies at 77". New York Times.
- ^ Lattman, Peter (28 January 2008). "Law Blog Obituary: Tom Barr of Cravath, Swaine & Moore". Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Cortada, James W. (2019). IBM:The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. pp. 338–348. ISBN 978-0-262-03944-4.
