HAGENS BERMAN

Barbara A. Mahoney - Associate

Ms. Mahoney is an associate at Hagens Berman where she has worked since 2006. She brings broad experience in complex commercial litigation, including unlawful competition; antitrust; securities; trademark; CERCLA; RICO; FLSA as well as federal aviation and maritime law.

Ms. Mahoney's work with the firm includes litigation against McKesson Corporation based on its alleged involvement in a scheme that raised the purchase price of over 400 brand-name prescription drugs. The lawsuit resulted in a proposed $350 million class action settlement with McKesson Corporation.

Prior to joining Hagens Berman, Ms. Mahoney was an associate at Danielson Harrigan Leyh & Tollefson in Seattle. While there, she participated on every level in state and federal litigation actions including taking and defending depositions; drafting discovery requests, motions and mediation briefs and preparing for trials.

Ms. Mahoney was named a 2005 "Rising Star" by Washington Law & Politics. She enjoys soccer and running and is a former director of Rain City Soccer. Ms. Mahoney has volunteered at the Downtown Neighborhood Legal Clinic and is a Q Law mentor and a Cooperating Attorney with American Civil Liberties Union of Washington. With Justice Richard Sanders she co-authored Restoration of Limited State Constitutional Government: A Dissenter's View, 59 N.Y.U. ANN. SUR. AM. L. 269 (2003).

Ms. Mahoney graduated from the University of Washington School of Law in 2001. She also has a PhD in philosophy from the Universitat Freiburg, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1993. As a result of her many years in Europe and teaching in the United States she is fluent in German and has a strong reading knowledge of French. After law school, Ms. Mahoney clerked for the Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong of the Northern District of California and the Honorable Justice Richard B. Sanders of the Washington Supreme Court. Ms. Mahoney is admitted to practice law in the state of Washington, U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Washington; and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.