Barnes, Carl A.

James D. Barger is an associate lawyer at Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz, PLLC, in Pensacola, Florida, and is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Currently, his practice focuses on mass torts, including defective pharmaceutical products and BP oil spill litigation.

Mr. Barger earned his law degree at the Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he participated in trial advocacy and legal research & writing programs ranked among the nation's best. During law school, he was a staff member for the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review. Mr. Barger was one of the founding staff members of the law school's student-run newspaper, Temple Prima Facie, serving as a writer and, later, as Editor-in-Chief. He also worked in clinical programs at the Bucks County District Attorney, representing the Commonwealth at preliminary hearings, and at the SEPTA Tort Litigation Division, representing one of the nation's largest transit systems in arbitration hearings at Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas.