Thomas Barr is best known for representing the International Business Machines Corporation in a 13-year antitrust battle with the federal government , as well as satellite cases by competitors and the EEC . The government began the case in 1969 and dropped it in 1982 . For his outstanding efforts and the scale of the case , Thomas Barr is credited as the father of big-case litigation . The case is described in details in '' The Partners '' by James B. Stewart . Other major cases included '' Powell v. McCormack '' , over the attempt to exclude Adam Clayton Powell Jr. from taking his seat in the US House of Representatives ; the defense of '' Time Magazine '' in the libel case brought by Ariel Sharon , relating to the Sabra and Shatila massacre ; the effort to recover on behalf of holders of defaulted municipal bonds issued by Washington Public Power Supply System ( WPPSS ) ; and the prosecution on behalf of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) against Drexel Burnham Lambert and Michael Milken over fraudulent junk bonds . His major pro bono work included cases for the Lawyers ' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Sabra and Shatila massacre
Sabra and Shatila massacre
Thomas D. Barr