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Barbara L. Trencher (née Barbara L. Balter) has represented individuals and organizations in a wide variety of civil, criminal, administrative, and regulatory matters, including criminal investigations and cases involving securities, tax, Medicaid, and mail fraud, SEC enforcement actions concerning accounting and securities fraud, and investigations by regulatory agencies and self-regulatory organizations regarding broker-dealers and analysts. She has litigated in numerous state and federal courts, at the trial and appellate court level, on behalf of sophisticated commercial clients as well as individuals. She has also represented both companies and individuals in corporate internal investigations.

Ms. Trencher graduated from Stanford University and received her Juris Doctorate degree, with honors, from the University of Chicago Law School, where she worked in the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic. Following her graduation from law school, Ms. Trencher was associated with the law firm of Katten Muchin Zavis in Chicago. Ms. Trencher joined Morvillo Abramowitz in 2002. From August 2003 to August 2004, Ms. Trencher clerked for the Honorable Shira A. Scheindlin, United States District Judge, Southern District of New York. Following her clerkship, Ms. Trencher returned to Morvillo Abramowitz and in 2008 she became a principal of the firm.

Ms. Trencher is an author of “Motion Denied: Systematic Impediments to White-Collar Criminal Defendants’ Trial Preparation,” 42 Am. Crim. Law Rev. 2, 157-177 (Spring 2005) and “Prosecution Deferred: Exploring the Unintended Consequences and Future of Corporate Cooperation,” 44 Am. Crim. Law Rev. 4, 1481-1502 (Fall 2007). She is also a member of the Federal Bar Council and the American Bar Association.  Ms. Trencher is admitted to practice in New York and Illinois, and before the District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Northern District of Illinois, and the Eastern District of Michigan.