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Within the firm's general practice, Robert C. Barber focuses mainly upon the business issues of start-up, small and medium-size companies and commercial litigation. A number of his clients, including several Boston area software companies and their principals, initially came to Rob for litigation counsel, and have continued with Looney & Grossman for all, or a variety of, non-litigation matters. Rob has also assisted in the formation and early development of other software or multimedia ventures, and continues to represent these companies in business disputes, and internal and external transactions. Rob was born in Columbus, Georgia (1950) and raised in Charleston, South Carolina. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1968 and Harvard College in 1972. After a year away from academia, Rob entered Boston University School of Law, from which he graduated in 1977, in the same year obtaining a Masters in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Rob worked in New York from 1977-1981, as an assistant district attorney for New York County. He returned to Boston, joining Looney & Grossman as an associate in 1981. Rob has been a partner of the firm since 1985, was Managing Partner from 2000 2002, and currently serves on the Management Committee. He is admitted to practice in State and Federal courts in Massachusetts and New York, and the United States Supreme Court. Rob is a member of the Boston Bar, the New York Bar and the American Bar Associations. In 2006, he was named Massachusetts Super Lawyer. Rob has for several years served as a student trial advisor at Harvard Law School. He is the author of "Americo Lopes v. City of Peabody: The SJC Interprets and Applies the Lucas Decision", Annual Survey of Opinions of the Supreme Judicial Court, published in the Boston Bar Journal in 1995. Among the reported cases in which he has been involved is Sentry Federal Savings Bank v. The Cooperative Central Bank, 406 Mass. 412; 548 NE2d 852 (1990). Rob is Treasurer of The Social Law Library, and also is active in his community, coaching youth baseball and soccer. He served on the Board of Directors of ElderLink, Inc. and Fayerweather Education Foundation. He has been involved in local political campaigns and as a Democratic ward committeeman. He is involved with fundraising and alumni activities at Harvard College and Phillips Academy (where he is president of his alumni class), and with legal real estate and development issues at The Fayerweather Street School, which his children have attended. He is married to Bonnie Neilan with whom he is raising three sons in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | 