Jeff Barker is Chair of O’Melveny’s Advertising, Marketing & Branding Group. Over a three-decade career, Jeff has tried numerous high-stakes matters in multiple jurisdictions. His clients include many household names in the entertainment, footwear/apparel, consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, and real estate industries, among others.
Although Jeff regularly handles a broad variety of business disputes in both state and federal trial and appellate courts, he maintains a particular focus on advertising and trademark litigation and counseling. A recognized authority on advertising law, Jeff recently authored the chapter on that subject in the treatise Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, now in its fifth edition.
Honors & Awards
- Named a “Rising Star” for entertainment litigation in a survey conducted by Law & Politics Media Inc. and published in Los Angeles magazine
Admissions
Bar Admissions
Court Admissions
- US Court of Appeals, Fifth and Ninth Circuits
- US District Court, Central, Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of California, and the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas
Education
- University of California at Los Angeles, J.D., 1993; Chief Managing Editor, UCLA Law Review; Distinguished Advocate, UCLA Moot Court Honors Program
- Tufts University, B.A., 1989: summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
Professional Activities
Clerkships
- Hon. William J. Rea, US District Court, Central District of California
Member
- Orange County Bar Association
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Association of Business Trial Lawyers
- California State Bar, Intellectual Property Law and Litigation Sections
- Board of Directors, Constitutional Rights Foundation – Orange County
- Emeritus Member and Former Co-Chair, UCLA Entertainment Law Symposium Advisory Committee
- Special Deputy Prosecutor, City of Redondo Beach (pro bono)
Publications
- Author, Chapter 145 – Advertising, Business & Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts (5th ed. 2021) (ABA/Thomson Reuters)
- Co-author, Winner’s Playbook: Behind the Scenes of the Pacquiao Case, Law360.com (May 13, 2020)