Team Member

Barry Shalen

Of Counsel

Barry came to Lebovitz Law Group in February 2020. He has 32 years of experience as an attorney, the last 30 of which were in the field of plaintiff’s personal injury. Barry has handled cases from intake through jury trial, including countless arbitrations and mediations. Barry began Southwestern University School of Law at age 36 and was an award winning (and the oldest) member of the school’s Moot Court Team. He received his JD in 1992, and practiced two years in Southern California before moving to Phoenix in 1994. Prior to attending law school, Barry procured a Masters degree in Criminal Justice/Corrections in 1980 from Kent State University, Ohio.

He also has a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Baruch College/CUNY, which he earned in 1975. Before law school, Barry worked twelve years in social services, primarily with at-risk youth and in homeless shelters/transitional living programs for families and/or adolescents.

Barry feels his social work background is the perfect foundation for understanding and working with those whose lives have been turned upside down due to injuries sustained due to the negligence of others.

When not working, Barry relieves his stress by drawing and building plastic and resin figurine model kits. Between college and graduate school, Barry attended a one-year workshop on how to draw comic books, taught by famed Marvel Comic Artist John Buscema, after which Barry self-published his own sword & sorcery comic book in 1981 (selling copies as far away as Japan).