Eric G. Barber has joined Michael Best & Friedrich LLP as a partner in the firm's litigation practice group in Madison. Mr. Barber will focus on assisting policyholders in navigating insurance issues.

“We are very pleased to add Eric's substantial counseling and litigation experience in the insurance area to our team, adding further depth to our existing insurance recovery practice for policyholders,” said Daniel J. Vaccaro, the chair of the firm's litigation practice group.

Mr. Barber joins Michael Best after spending time as a partner with Perkins Coie LLP, where his clients ranged from early stage tech startups to Fortune 100 international corporations. Mr. Barber has counseled companies and prosecuted insurance claims on a wide range of insurance products, including directors' and officers' insurance, cyber liability insurance, errors and omission/professional liability insurance, representations and warranties insurance, fidelity bonds, crime policies, property insurance, commercial general liability insurance, trade credit risk insurance, builders risk policies, performance bonds, and other specialty products. He has obtained recoveries for clients' claims in a variety of high-profile matters including, among others, named hurricanes, the collapse of MF Global, and the Madoff Ponzi scheme.

Mr. Barber earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2004, where he was articles editor for the Wisconsin Law Review. After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard Wesley, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, as well as the Honorable Shirley Abrahamson, State Supreme Court of Wisconsin. Mr. Barber obtained his M.A. from California State University, Los Angeles, in 2001 and his B.A. from the University of Denver in 1992.