Biography

Steven K. Barentzen has been practicing law for nearly 30 years.  He received his J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill, in 1995.  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 and spent his junior year studying English Literature and Economics at the University of Exeter in England.

Mr. Barentzen began his legal career in New York City working on complex and high-profile litigation matters at large firms Winthrop, Stimson Putnam and Roberts and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, and later at the litigation boutique Arkin Kaplan.

In 2004, Mr. Barentzen moved to Washington, D.C. and started his own firm in July 2008.  Mr. Barentzen has developed a broad-based litigation practice representing clients in unique, complex and high-profile matters.  Mr. Barentzen has successfully represented clients in a wide variety of commercial and other disputes, including trademark infringement actions, professional malpractice cases, fraud and overbilling cases, breach of contract cases, government contract litigation, theft of trade secrets cases, securities litigation, employment litigation, and terrorism cases, many of which have received coverage in the press.

Mr. Barentzen is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, New York and Maryland.  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 Federal Court of Claims and a variety of federal appellate courts.

From 2014 to 2020 and again in 2023, Mr. Barentzen was recognized by SuperLawyers as one of the top civil litigators in Washington, DC.  Mr. Barentzen volunteers as an arbitrator with the D.C. Bar's Attorney Client Arbitration Board and is the former co-chair of the D.C. Bar's ADR Committee.  Mr. Barentzen has published articles concerning attorney overbilling, Alternative Dispute Resolution, and other topics.

A native New Yorker, Mr. Barentzen now lives in Georgetown with his wife Liz, his two sons Cash and Wesley, and his dog Obi.