Nikoleta Barr is a Practice Partner at Kelley Kronenberg, focusing her practice on workers’ compensation defense.  

Prior to joining Kelley Kronenberg, Nikoleta served as a senior associate attorney at a workers’ compensation defense firm, where she independently managed a high-volume caseload and developed comprehensive defense strategies based on case facts, statutory interpretation, and risk evaluation. She successfully resolved complex claims involving employee misrepresentation, major contributing cause, and other statutory defenses through strategic depositions and targeted discovery. Her experience also includes serving as a supervising attorney for a healthcare company, where she oversaw attorneys and legal assistants handling pre-litigation healthcare, workers’ compensation, and third-party reimbursement claims, and trained team members to improve efficiency and case outcomes. She has also worked as a staff attorney providing legal services to healthcare clients helping them resolve disputed insurance and workers’ compensation reimbursement claims, and as an associate attorney conducting legal research and representing clients at hearings and settlement conferences. 

Nikoleta graduated magna cum laude from Queens College, City University of New York with a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and Economics, where she was recognized on the Dean’s List and graduated with High Honors while working full-time as a paralegal. She earned her Juris Doctor from New York Law School, where she was recognized on the Dean’s List, received High Honors, and served as Senator for the Evening Student Bar Association while working full-time in the tax compliance department of a major accounting firm. 

She is fluent in Russian and proficient in Hebrew.