Deborah B. Barbier

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Deborah Barbier graduated cum laude from the University of South Carolina School of Journalism in 1990. In 1994, she graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law. After law school, she served as a law clerk in state court to the Honorable Joseph A. Wilson, II, while he was the Chief Administrative Criminal Judge for the Fifth Judicial Circuit. She then served as a federal judicial law clerk for the Honorable Joseph F. Anderson, Jr. in the United States District Court. Ms. Barbier worked for fifteen years as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina. The first five years she was the lead attorney for the district's Affirmative Civil Enforcement division where she primarily prosecuted civil health care fraud, qui tams, drug diversion, and procurement fraud. Ms. Barbier worked in the criminal division of the US Attorney’s Office for 10 years, prosecuting criminal health care fraud, securities fraud, mortgage fraud, white collar fraud, public corruption, violent crimes and drug crimes. She served on numerous task forces designed to combat financial crimes, health care fraud, terrorism, and public corruption. She was the lead attorney for the Asset Forfeiture division for two and a half years. She was the Chief of the White Collar Division for more than five years. She is currently in private practice specializing in False Claims Act litigation and white collar criminal defense.

She has been named in the Best Lawyers in America for the last five years, she is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been named to Superlawyers.

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