Butler Snow LLP

Barney's practice focuses on commercial litigation and governmental litigation. He is Vice Chair of the Committee on Character and Fitness of the Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions and is a member of the Standing Committee on Local Civil Rules for the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi.

Barney focuses on high-stakes commercial disputes, routinely representing businesses large and small, including financial institutions such as banks, credit card issuers, debt buyers and payday lenders. In addition to entity clients, Barney regularly represents individual officers, directors and shareholders. He has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial disputes, in numerous federal and state jurisdictions, arbitral fora and before federal and state governmental agencies. Barney also represents clients in federal and state appellate matters, including as amicus counsel.

Barney has substantial experience with unfair competition disputes, closely held business shareholder disputes, lender liability, credit-related litigation such as usury, FCRA, FDCPA, SCRA, TILA, RESPA and ECOA, and a broad range of generalized commercial litigation. Barney has successfully obtained injunctive relief against governmental actors on behalf of corporate clients based on both constitutional and statutory claims.

In his bar service, Barney has served for many years on both the Standing Committee on Local Civil Rules for the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi as well as the Committee on Character and Fitness for the Mississippi Board of Bar Admissions.

In addition to his civilian legal practice, Barney served in the Mississippi National Guard for over 30 years as an Armor Officer, and later as a Judge Advocate, including deployment in Operation Iraqi Freedom, predominantly in Mosul and Qayyarah, Iraq. At the time of his military retirement, Barney was the State Judge Advocate for Mississippi and held the rank of Colonel.

University of Cambridge (Magdalene College), LL.M., Class I Honors, 1992 University of Mississippi School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1991 Washington and Lee University, B.A., 1988