Jeff Barber is a partner in the firm's Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group and practices from the firm's Jackson office. He is also the office head for the firm's two Mississippi locations. He focuses his practice on bankruptcy and creditors' rights and is a frequent lecturer on bankruptcy and creditors' rights matters. He regularly represents clients in bankruptcy proceedings and assists them in restructurings. In addition, he has served as an adjunct professor of Debtor-Creditor Law at the Mississippi College School of Law and is the author of several published works.

He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he graduated magna cum laude, and he received a juris doctor degree from Cumberland School of Law, Samford University. While in law school, he was an Associate Editor of the Cumberland Law Review.