Baruch Weiss

Baruch Weiss is a trial attorney focusing on white collar, national security, and complex civil litigation. He handles fraud and money laundering investigations; homeland and national security matters; criminal and civil OFAC enforcement cases, as well as delisting, licensing, and export control matters; securities fraud investigations (both DOJ and SEC); FCPA investigations; public corruption matters; FARA matters; administrative and criminal immigration enforcement actions against employers; criminal tax evasion cases; and federal criminal appeals. He represents individual clients, foreign governments, and companies across industries, including financial services, life sciences, education, media and technology, and non-profits.

Aside from his white-collar, national-security and litigation work, Baruch devotes a significant part of his practice representing the interests of Jewish students in campus antisemitism cases. His involvement goes back to 2020, long before the escalation of such cases on October 7, 2023. He represents Jewish students and nonprofits in Title VI cases against universities, both in court and before the Office of Civil Rights, Department of Education. He has brought - sometimes in partnerships with various nonprofits that are also active in the antisemitism space - cases against: University of Illinois – Urbana Champaigne; Rutgers; Cooper Union, Pomona, Scripps, Sarah Lawrence College; and others. He advises Hillel International on campus antisemitism matters, and represents various local campus Hillels. He works with the Anti-Defamation League, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, and the Lawfare Project in the Campus Antisemitism Legal Line (CALL), which provides pro bono legal assistance to students across the country.