BARNES, RICHARDSON & COLBURN - Key Persons
Mr. Goggins is a partner in the New York office of Barnes, Richardson & Colburn. His practice includes litigation before the United States Court of International Trade and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He has also represented clients before various federal agencies such as U.S. Customs, the Department of Commerce, and the Patent and Trademark Office.
Given his CPA background, Mr. Goggins has developed considerable expertise in the accounting related areas of Customs and Trade law - valuation and appraisement issues, preferential duty provisions such as NAFTA, CBERA, GSP and U.S. goods returned, and Customs audits. His practice also includes other areas such as classification, country of origin marking, investigations and penalties and covers many other issues that confront both U.S. importers and U.S. exporters.
Ms. Bodden is an associate at Barnes, Richardson & Colburn's New York office and advises clients on a broad range of customs and trade law matters, with particular focus on tariff classifications, customs, trade remedy litigation and economic sanctions.
Mr. Eighan is an associate at Barnes, Richardson & Colburn's Chicago office and advises clients on a broad range of customs and trade law matters, with particular focus on tariff classifications, valuation, country of origin determinations, marking, antidumping and countervailing duties, free trade agreements, trade remedies, compliance assessments, penalties, and enforcement actions.
Mr. Eighan has been a licensed U.S. customs broker since 2019 and brings years of industry experience in trade compliance and logistics to help clients navigate the complexities of international trade laws. Prior to joining Barnes, Richardson & Colburn, Mr. Eighan served as a trade attorney with another boutique international trade law firm and clerked with the U.S. Department of Commerce's Office of the Chief Counsel for Trade Enforcement & Compliance.
Brian Walsh began practice with the firm in 1985 and has had substantial experience, and notable successes, in virtually every aspect of Customs and International Trade Law practice. Representing both importers and exporters, a particular focus of Brian's practice has been compliance with the laws and regulations administered by the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, the Bureau of Industry and Security and the Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Through the conduct of Legal Compliance Reviews, Brian has developed programs to enable importers and exporters to conduct their international trading operations in a compliant, cost effective manner. While focusing on compliance in the course of such reviews, he is able to devise duty saving strategies and enable traders to achieve substantially increased efficiencies in their international operations. In conjunction with such compliance efforts, Brian has a particularly active practice obtaining binding rulings from the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection. In some cases, strategies solidified though these means have enabled companies to bring products to market which would have been otherwise denied access due to prohibitive duty liability or export restrictions. He is able to translate the complexities of special duty preference programs such as those available under the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Generalized System of Preferences in a straight-forward, practical manner.
In circumstances in which clients have not maintained compliance, Brian has been able to effectively protect these clients from the liability of penalty assessments through the filing of prior disclosures. A number of these disclosures have been in the multi-million dollar range and have insulated clients from potential penalty liability in the tens of millions of dollars. He has been active in representing companies in audits and investigations, both civil and criminal, conducted by each of the agencies regulating international trade on both the import and export side.
He has also been active in the area of antidumping law representing both petitioners and respondents. His involvement in such cases has included substantial briefing and hearings before the International Trade Administration and the International Trade Commission, compilation of antidumping questionnaire responses and representation in overseas Commerce Department verifications. His activities in this area of the law have included representation in the largest antidumping case in U.S. history, filed against imports of crude petroleum from Saudi Arabi, Venezuela, Mexico and Iraq.
Brian has litigated significant cases before the United States Court of International Trade, The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and participated in one of the first bi-national panel reviews under the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the predecessor of the North American Free Trade Agreement. He has also been successful in settling several multi-million dollar disputes in advance of trial.
A frequent speaker on topics related to Customs and International Trade, Brian has addressed numerous international trade associations, industry groups and legal associations such as the International Trade Club of Chicago, The World Trade Institute, The Chicago Bar Association, and the American Petroleum Institute. He has conducted a monthly educational seminar program for the Customs Brokers and Foreign Freight Forwarders Association of Chicago continuously for more than a decade and has been on the Board of Directors of that organization since 1995. He is often called upon to conduct internal training seminars for companies involved in international trade and has developed substantial educational materials for use in such training seminars.
Brian is the Meritas representative for the Chicago office of Barnes, Richardson & Colburn.
He is married and has two children.
Job Titles:
- Member of the International Trade Club of Chicago
Chaney is a member of the International Trade Club of Chicago (ITCC) and the Traffic Club of Chicago.
David is a frequent speaker on international trade topics and has presented at a number of international trade conferences. He has also been active in the alumni association of the University of Illinois College of Law and served as an Associate Editor on the American Bar Association's International Law Newsletter for five years. In 2013 David was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Trade Association of Greater Chicago.
Ms. Kreinik is an associate at Barnes, Richardson & Colburn's Chicago office and assists clients with international trade issues. Ms. Kreinik focuses on tariff classifications and trade-related legal research. She is interested in international anti-corruption compliance, global intellectual property, and free trade agreements in the modern age.
Larry served as a law clerk to the Honorable Dominick L. DiCarlo of the United States Court of International Trade. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. From 2016 through 2018 he served as President of the Customs and International Trade Bar Association and is former Co-Chaire of the American Bar Association Customs Law Committee. He writes the Customs Law Blog and is co-author of the text book "Customs Law." Lastly, he is the President of the Illinois-Chicago Chapter of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms.
Since 2013, Larry has been named a Leading Individual by Chambers USA and is included in Who's Who Legal.
Job Titles:
- Webinar for International Compliance Professionals Association
Marvin graduated from American University Washington School of Law in 2020. During his time at American University, Marvin participated in the Janet R. Spragens Federal Tax Clinic where he was admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court. Marvin earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Miami University where he majored in Political Science and History.
Mr. McGrath is a cum laude graduate of Bucknell (1976) and the George Washington University School of Law (1979), where he served as Notes Editor for the Journal of International Law and Economics.
Job Titles:
- Associate at Barnes
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Mr. Bianchi is an associate at Barnes, Richardson & Colburn's Chicago office and advises clients on a broad range of customs and trade law matters, with particular focus on tariff classifications, compliance programs, and remedies. He also regularly monitors international trade developments, focusing on classification and regulatory matters, and provides businesses with a tailored analyses for their disputes and activities.
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