Biography

Steven K. Barentzen has over 16 years of civil litigation experience.  In 1995, he received his J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill.  He graduated with honors and was a staff member on the North Carolina Law Review.  He received his B.A. in Economics and English Literature from Rutgers University in 1991.

Mr. Barentzen began his legal career in New York City working on a wide range of complex and high profile matters for some of the finest firms in the city including the large firms Winthrop, Stimson Putnam and Roberts and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and the small litigation boutique Arkin Kaplan.

In 2004, Mr. Barentzen moved to Washington, D.C. with his family, where he has developed a broad based litigation practice and continued to represent clients in complex and high profile matters.  Mr. Barentzen has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of commercial and other disputes, including fraud cases, breach of contract cases, theft of trade secrets cases, securities litigation, employment litigation, terrorism cases, family law litigation, civil rights actions, bankruptcy cases, personal injury and collection proceedings.

He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York.  He is also admitted in the United States District Courts for the District of Columbia, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of Maryland, the United States Courts of Appeal for the Second, Third and Fourth Circuits and the Federal Court of Claims.

He lives in Georgetown with his wife Liz, his two sons Cash and Wesley, and his dog Ace.