Barack Echols JD
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Barack Echols is a litigation partner in Kirkland's Chicago office. Barack concentrates his practice in the areas of antitrust and complex commercial litigation, and has broad experience in class action defense, bankruptcy-related litigation, arbitration and government investigations into claims of anticompetitive practices and consumer fraud. Barack has represented corporate clients in arbitration and in federal and state courts throughout the United States in price-fixing class actions, merger litigation, price-discrimination suits, consumer fraud matters and contract disputes. Barack has been annually recognized as a leading lawyer by Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business since 2014 and as an “Illinois Super Lawyer” in Antitrust by Super Lawyers magazine since 2013. Barack also was named one of Savoy Magazine’s 2015 Most Influential Black Lawyers, a list of the “best of the best” of black partners within leading national law firms and counsel from Fortune 1000 corporations.