Barry A. Short is a senior partner at the firm with more than forty years of litigation experience in federal and state courts. His principal areas of practice include white-collar criminal defense, complex commercial litigation, mass torts, securities and internal investigations. He represents individuals and corporations in all varieties of criminal prosecutions.
He successfully argued the case of Sell v. United States in the Supreme Court of the United States, which is a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court imposed stringent limits on the right of a lower court to order the forcible administration of antipsychotic medication to a non-dangerous pretrial detainee who had been found incompetent to stand trial for the sole purpose of making him competent and able to be tried.
Mr. Short has lectured at continuing professional education programs and taught trial advocacy as an Adjunct Professor at Washington University School of Law. In addition, he is AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell, was selected by his/her peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2006-2011, was selected for inclusion in Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers® 2005, 2007-2009, is listed among Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Business Crime Lawyers for 2009, 2010 and listed in Chambers USA - America's Leading Lawyers for Business Litigation: White Collar Crime, Government Investigations 2007, 2008.