Attorneys
Barbara Barron
Ms. Barron received her B.A. magna cum laude in economics from Barnard College, her M.B.A. in finance and industrial organization from Columbia University, and her J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.
She was admitted to the Texas Bar in 1977 and to the District of Columbia Bar in 1980. She has completed the American Arbitration Association mediator training. She is currently admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, three United States District Courts for the State of Texas and the United States Tax Court. She is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the District of Columbia Bar Association, the Austin Bar Association, the American Bankruptcy Institute and the Commercial Law League of America and is a Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation.
Ms. Barron is the founder and current president of Barron & Newburger, P.C. and the managing member of Barron, Newburger & Sinsley, PLLC. Ms. Barron is also the vice-president of Fair Debt Consultants, Inc.
In 1984, she served as an adjunct professor of business law at the University of Texas School of Business and has served as a lecturer addressing issues in creditor's rights and bankruptcy law for educational programs both in Texas and nationally. She is the co-author of M. Newburger and B. Barron, Fair Debt Collection Practices: Federal and State Laws and Regulations (Sheshunoff & Pratt) and the nine previous versions of that treatise. Her other publications include: (i) co-editorship of the Handbook of Consumer Bankruptcy Essentials and the Bankruptcy Desk Reference for Non-Bankruptcy Practitioners (both prepared for State Bar of Texas seminars); (ii) editorship of the Bankruptcy Reference Manual and Forms Guide prepared as the Course Books for the State Bar of Texas' Nuts & Bolts of Bankruptcy (a course she co-directed with Stephen Sather); (iii) co-authorship with Stephen Sather on Highlights of BAPCA 2005 Changes to the Consumer Provisions of Title 11, published in the November 2005 of the Commercial Law League of America Bulletin; and (iv) co-authorship with Stephen Sather on Trade Creditor and Small Business Protections under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, published in the December 2005 issue of the Texas Bar Journal. She serves on the editorial committee of the Texas Collections Manual published by the State Bar of Texas and Ms. Barron has been designated a Texas Super Lawyer by Law and Politics magazine.
A substantial portion of Ms. Barron's practice relates to bankruptcy and insolvency, FDCPA law, commercial litigation and small business advisory work. She has worked with clients in effecting out-of-court workouts and has represented debtors, creditors, trustees and creditors' committees in bankruptcy proceedings throughout the State of Texas. She has also served both as a state court receiver and as a Chapter 11 Trustee. Ms. Barron has served on the Bankruptcy Committee of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, the Executive Council of the Travis County Bankruptcy Bar, and the Executive Council of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Section of the Commercial Law League of America. She was a member of the board of the Bankruptcy Section of the Austin Bar Association for six years and served as president of that section from 2004 to 2006 . She was an organizer of the Insolvency Support Group in Austin, one of the first groups of its kind in the United States, and was instrumental in establishing the Debt Counseling Clinic to assist the Legal Aid Society of Central Texas.
For over thirty years Ms. Barron has been actively involved in charitable and pro bono matters in the Austin area and has received awards from Volunteer Legal Services of Austin and Advocacy, Inc. for her commitment to pro bono matters. She has chaired the Board of Jewish Family Services of Austin and the Business Advisory Council of Community Options. She has served for many years on the Metropolitan Board of the YMCA of Austin and served as chair of its Program Services Branch for three years. Ms. Barron currently serves on the board of the Capital Area Aids Legal Project, the Executive Committee of the Austin Chapter of the Anti-Defamation League and on the Admissions Committee for the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
email: bbarron@bns-law.com