Barbara Moses
Counsel
(212) 880-9540
Barbara Moses handles complex business disputes in state and federal courts nationwide, in arbitration, and in administrative proceedings. She has extensive experience in securities fraud and shareholder rights litigation, securities regulatory proceedings, class and derivative actions, partnership disputes, and copyright, trademark and trade secrets litigation. She also handles attorney disciplinary matters, conducts internal corporate investigations, and serves on the American Arbitration Association’s national panel of neutrals.
In addition to her work at the Firm, Barbara is a Visiting Clinical Professor at Seton Hall University Law School, where she directs the Civil Rights and Constitutional Litigation Clinic. From 2009 to 2011 she taught a full-year, first-year course in Lawyering at New York University Law School.
Barbara received an A.B. magna cum laude from Dartmouth College and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. After clerking for the Honorable Vincent L. McKusick, Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court, and serving as a litigation partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe for twelve years, she joined Morvillo Abramowitz as a principal in 2002. Barbara assumed the role of Counsel at the Firm in 2011 in order to devote more time to her academic responsibilities.
Barbara’s numerous articles on securities litigation and trade secret issues include: “They Were Shocked, Shocked: The ‘Discovery’ of Analyst Conflicts on Wall Street” (70 Brooklyn L. Rev. 98, Fall 2004); “Litigation Stemming From Hiring Decisions: The Defense Perspective” (New York Law Journal, October 28, 1999); “Measures to Prevent Trade Secret Theft” (New York Law Journal, November 24, 1997); and “Securities Litigation Reformed?” (Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, Vol. 29, No. 4, February 1997). She has appeared on ABC’s Nightline as a securities litigation expert and has been a frequent speaker at the ALI-ABA’s Broker-Dealer Regulation course, which she co-chaired from 1997 to 2006. Barbara has been listed in the New York Super Lawyers – Metro Edition every year since 2006.
Barbara is an elected member of the American Law Institute and serves as a Director and the President-Elect of the New York County Lawyers’ Association, where she was previously Chair of the Federal Courts Committee. She is also a member of the House of Delegates of the New York State Bar Association and a member of the American Bar Association.
Barbara is admitted in New York, California, and Washington, D.C., and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Second, Ninth, and District of Columbia Circuits, and numerous federal district courts.
