Barbara Van Gelder

Partner

Barbara “Biz” Van Gelder is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. Ms. Van Gelder focuses her practice on white collar litigation and healthcare litigation. She regularly represents clients in congressional investigations, criminal fraud investigations, and qui tam, false claim, civil RICO, and employment litigation. She has counseled clients—including boards, audit committees, and management—on the development and implementation of internal compliance and ethics programs, the conduct of internal investigations, and Sarbanes-Oxley issues.

Washingtonian magazine named her a “top criminal defense lawyer,” someone to call if “you find yourself drawn into an awkward congressional investigation, or worse, a grand-jury investigation by the Justice Department or the U.S. Attorney’s office.”

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Van Gelder served as a partner in and head of the white collar litigation group at a national law firm in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, she served for more than 14 years in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia in both the criminal and civil divisions.

Ms. Van Gelder has taught as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching evidence and trial practice. She also has taught at NITA trial and deposition workshops and at the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute. In addition, she is a frequent speaker at the ABA Healthcare Fraud and Qui Tam Institutes.

Ms. Van Gelder received her B.A. from Boston University in 1972 and her J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 1976.

Ms. Van Gelder admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.