B. W. Grant Barnes Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Bay Area, California

Focus on international criminal law procedure, with a specific focus on free speech protection and other fundamental rights and freedoms

Glendale, California

Advising 501(c)(3) re corporate governance, fiscal sponsorship, recording and commissioning contracts, human resources issues, and litigation. Pro bono

Los Angeles, California

Civil and administrative litigation and general business transactional law, including compliance and due diligence, transnational litigation, construction claims and defects, federal regulatory law, labor, government contracts, antitrust, international aviation, telecommunications, trademark law, trust law, employment, and business counseling. Extensive document production and preparation for discovery, using many electronic review and tagging programs, most recently Relativity, Concordance, Stratify, Encore, and Ringtail. Deposition summary experience. Admitted in good standing in California (active), the District of Columbia (active), Hawai'i (inactive), Massachusetts (inactive), New Mexico (inactive) and New York (active).

Greater New York City Area

Advising artist agent and manager in general business matters

Jersey City, New Jersey

Full-time litigation support and document review, using Relativity, summary and translation (First Pass and Quality Manager Team Leader) of primarily German-language documents (but also reviewing documents in many other European languages, including Swedish, Danish, Slovak, Icelandic, Russian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Norwegian) (ongoing U.S. federal, Canadian and European lawsuits and government investigations in engineering, pharma and antitrust); extensive QM and QA; also, contemporaneous training in Ukrainian language

Manhattan, New Yortk

Full-time German-language document review in Second Request proposed merger

Los Angeles, California

Full-time document review and deposition preparation in investment counsel arbitration

Encino, California

Full-time document review and deposition preparation in trademark arbitration

Los Angeles, California

Almost full-time as contract attorney, legal research and extensive document review in several banking and financial instruments lawsuits using Relativity, Concordance, and RingTail; prepared top-level summaries of key documents in Excel and witness testimony and summaries of all exhibits (also in Excel) and assembled evidence re claims in various lawsuits

Greater Los Angeles Area

Advising 501(c)(3) re corporate governance, human resources issues, and litigation pro bono

International Non-Governmental Organization

Responsible for safety and integrity of corporate records; negotiated deposit agreement with The Hoover Institution, Stanford University for permanent custody; selected by representatives of 45 national groups meeting in Lazio, Italy, and Mar del Plata, Argentina; pro bono. Created and maintain the website Servas Truth Project as both an internet webpage and Facebook page

Manhattan, New York, And Arcata, California; Board Meetings Throughout The U.S.

Advising re corporate governance, human resources issues; fiscal sponsorship; compliance with non-profit law in New York and California; relations with Servas International; elected and re-elected every year by board until resignation for professional reasons; pro bono

Westwood, California

Negotiated and managed dozens of contracts with world-wide experts to provide research services to in-house counsel and law firms representing Fortune 200 companies; reviewed and revised work product in wide range of business law, including multi-national and 50-state surveys, including U.S. and foreign encryption law; assisted with ethical training and compliance modules pursuant to Sarbanes-Oxley

New York, New York And Los Angeles, California

Contract attorney (almost full-time) based at Heller, Ehrman White & McAuliffe assisting in litigation on international federal and state antitrust matter with joint defense counsel composed of several national law firms; team won federal case on summary judgment; and for same client at Munger, Tolles & Olsen (Jan. 2002-June 2002) on a reimbursement claim, document management and privilege reviews; drafted pleadings and legal research memoranda

Los Angeles, California (Trial Preparation); Guam (Trial In Territorial Court)

Assisted in jury trial in Guam of a construction defect and surety lawsuit by Kawasho Corp. against SsangYong Engineering, Mitsui Construction and INA. Jury verdict for $147 million, including award of punitive damages. Managed back office during trial; prepared legal research memoranda; supported trial team in real time

assisting in all discovery and pre-trial aspects of litigation between Siemens Corp. and ARCO; extensive experience in multi-lingual (predominantly German) document review and preparation of German-speaking witnesses

Government Contract counseling and litigation

Government Contracts, White Collar Criminal Defense, Export Administration Compliance, Federal Litigation, International Business Transactions

Civilian attorney with special responsibility for Government Contracts and Leases, incl. Suspension and Debarment; International Civil Aviation; International Procurement and Joint Ventures

Worked with Ambassador Clarence Clyde Ferguson in helping set up HLS's Human Rights and Development Project; assisted in his graduate seminar

Graduate Student Teaching Assistant for Profs. Samuel Beer, Paul Starr, Michael Sandel, Richard Hunt, Gregory Nagy;Resident Tutor and Assistant Senior Tutor/Librarian, John Winthrop HouseNon-Resident Tutor, Eliot HouseProctor, Harvard Summer School

Researched, updated and revised travel information for Central Europe (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia) for Let's Go Europe

English instructor, Berufschule Schlankreye and Bergedorf (HH)

A.M., Sociology/International Relations

Activities and Societies: Assistant Senior Tutor, Resident Tutor, Librarian at John Winthrop House (1976-1982); Non-Resident Tutor, Eliot.

Education record

European Law

Activities and Societies: PAAD Exchange Fellowship (Berufschule Schlankreye)

Sociology

Activities and Societies: Fulbright Scholarship

B.A. With High Honors, Plan Ii; Sociology; Comparative Literature; Philosophy; Architecture

Activities and Societies: College House; German House; Wright Book Award

General Education

Activities and Societies: Tarleton Band

General Education, 10

Activities and Societies: Latin Club; OHS OrchestraHigh school for one year only (1963-64); parents moved to Stephenville, Texas

H.S. Diploma, General Education, 11, 12

Activities and Societies: National Honor Society; Stephenville High School marching band and jazz band