Rammy Barbari

Washington, DC11 years experienceAdmitted 2014

About Rammy Barbari

Rammy G. Barbari is a partner at Price Benowitz LLP focused on personal injury and civil litigation. He has more than a decade of trial experience, with hundreds of bench and jury trials and more than 10,000 cases handled.

Barbari earned his Juris Doctor from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in 2014 and his Bachelor of Arts from the Virginia Military Institute in 2009, where he graduated as a Distinguished Graduate with Institute Honors. He is admitted to the Virginia State Bar, the Bar of the District of Columbia, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland (pro hac vice), and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

After law school, Barbari clerked for U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton of the Eastern District of Virginia, then served as a prosecutor in Fairfax County, Virginia handling violent felonies, fraud, and narcotics cases. He previously led Price Benowitz's federal white-collar defense group. Before law school, he had international business development experience securing more than $500 million in contracts for a private security firm in the Middle East.

Barbari is a member of the Federal Bar Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the National Arab American Bar Association, the National Trial Lawyers, the American Bar Association, and the Fairfax Bar Association. He is fluent in Arabic and Spanish. His honors include Super Lawyers Rising Star recognition (2023-2025), selection to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100, and multiple commendations for trial practice excellence.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Price Benowitz Accident Injury Lawyers, LLP

These results are credited to Price Benowitz Accident Injury Lawyers, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$25 million sought

Price Benowitz, with co-counsel Ben Crump, filed a $25 million wrongful death suit for the father of Rolin Hill, who died in 2024 after Virginia Beach jail deputies restrained and beat him during a mental health crisis.

Virginia Beach, Virginia · 2026Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

A large tree fell onto a moving car on Beach Drive in Rock Creek Park and trapped the driver, Marcelino Cruz Leiva. He sued the United States under the Federal Tort Claims Act, alleging the National Park Service should have found and removed the decayed tree. After a four-day bench trial in December 2023, Judge Amit Mehta entered judgment for Cruz Leiva on his negligence claim in the sum of $5 million on May 7, 2024.

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Washington · 2024Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

A federal judge held the United States could be sued under the Federal Tort Claims Act for a tree limb that fell on pedestrian Mary Lou Walen during Hurricane Sandy, rejecting the government's sovereign-immunity defense and later denying summary judgment.

U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington, DC) · 2017Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

Price Benowitz brought a federal civil rights and wrongful death suit after Alonzo Smith, 27, died in 2015 while special police officers restrained him face down at a Southeast Washington apartment complex.

U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington, DC) · 2017Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Virginia Military Institute
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Virginia, admitted 2014
State Bar of District of Columbia
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia
State Bar of U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
State Bar of U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
Federal Bar Association
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
National Arab American Bar Association
National Trial Lawyers
American Bar Association
Fairfax Bar Association

Awards & recognition

Distinguished Graduate with Institute Honors - Virginia Military Institute (2009)
Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2023-2025)
National Trial Lawyers Top 100

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$20 Million Judgment Against U.S. for Driver Paralyzed When Smithsonian Bus Ran Red Light
Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C.
Chaikin, Sherman, Cammarata & Siegel, P.C.
$17.11 million · $17.1 Million Verdict After Missed Ectopic Pregnancy Kills Young DC Mother
Patrick Malone & Associates, P.C.
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$8.35 million · Record $8.35 Million D.C. Verdict After Knee Surgery Cost an 82-Year-Old His Leg

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.