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Brett Sandford

Brett Sandford represents clients in high-stakes intellectual property cases, with a focus on trial. Brett draws on experience — in more than a dozen trials and at every stage of the litigation process — to help clients pursue and defend a range of intellectual property claims, including patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation. Brett has had success representing both plaintiffs and defendants in all of the patent-heavy districts. He has a highly developed team ethos, informed by a prior career in professional baseball, and an ability to play the long game to achieve success for his clients. Brett has developed expertise in the trial phase and handling intellectual property damages. He has successfully led damages cases for clients on the plaintiff and defense side, including achieving a unique result of zero damages for established direct infringement that was affirmed by the Federal Circuit on appeal. Brett represents clients in every forum, including in district court and before the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). He also maintains an active pro bono practice, with a focus on helping clients win at trial. Prior to joining Latham, Brett was a judicial extern for Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Corley of the Northern District of California. He also served as a judicial intern for Judge Thomas P. Anderle and Judge Brian E. Hill in the Santa Barbara Superior Court. During law school, Brett was a member of the Giles Sutherland Rich Memorial Moot Court Competition and an executive editor of the Berkeley Business Law Journal.

Latham & Watkins

Brett Schuman

Partner

Goodwin

Brett Solberg

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Brett Souza

Partner - Corporate and Finance Transactions

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Brett Stewien

Partner

GPS Legal LLP

Brett W. Rector

Brett Rector focuses his litigation practice on healthcare and commercial disputes. He represents all types of healthcare providers, including hospital systems, medical device manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, physicians groups and individual physicians. He has significant experience litigating disputes involving managed care, billing and reimbursement, employment, contracts, restrictive covenants and other complex commercial matters. He also represents healthcare clients in regulatory and compliance matters, including government investigations, qui tam suits and matters relating to alleged violations of federal and state anti-kickback provisions and Stark laws. Brett has notable experience as a stand-up litigator, having successfully briefed and argued a variety of procedural, discovery and dispositive motions. He has also assisted in preparing and trying multiple cases to verdict, as well as examining and cross-examining both fact and expert witnesses during deposition.

Bracewell LLP

Brett Young

Norton Rose Fulbright

Brette Tannenbaum

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Bria Fallen

Bria Fallen is a partner serving as Co-Chair of the Banking & Specialty Finance Group at Cassels. Bria advises financial institutions, lenders, and corporate borrowers on all aspects of secured and unsecured lending transactions. She offers expertise in many areas of commercial lending, including real estate financing, commercial buyouts, asset-based lending, loans made through the Canada Small Business Financing Program, equipment financing, and intercreditor agreements. Bria’s mid-market commercial lending experience is diversified across industries such as energy, aviation, automotive, food services, retail, and real estate. Learn more.

Cassels

Brian A. Kelly

Brian A. Kelly represents clients in connection with commercial, environmental and insurance matters. Mr. Kelly is a trial attorney with extensive jury and court trial experience. His practice involves counseling clients in all stages of risk, and he is frequently retained before a lawsuit is filed in an effort to manage risk. Mr. Kelly has extensive experience representing clients in arbitrations, mediations and all other types of alternative dispute resolution. In all engagements, Mr. Kelly works closely with his clients to achieve defined goals in the most cost-effective manner. Mr. Kelly advises and represents clients in a wide range of issues and lawsuits from contractual issues and insurance coverage to toxic torts and environmental claims. He is regularly retained as trial and appellate counsel in complex litigation in state and federal courts throughout the country. Mr. Kelly also represents product manufacturers, industry groups and their associations in administrative, state and federal court proceedings relating to environmental impacts, product use restrictions and compliance with state and federal environmental regulations, including NEPA, CEQA, Clean Water Act and CERCLA, among others.

Duane Morris LLP

Brian A. Ratner

Partner & Vice-Chair

Hausfeld LLP

Brian Ade

Brian R. Ade handles complex civil and commercial disputes. Brian dedicates a substantial portion of his legal practice to cases involving construction defects, product liability, toxic tort and long-tail litigation, environmental contamination, professional liability, and insurance coverage. He has defended companies and individuals in connection with claims relating to hazardous chemicals and chemical waste, PCBs, dioxin, lead, silica, and asbestos. Brian’s clients also include manufacturers and distributors of diverse medical, consumer, commercial, and industrial products. In connection with his insurance practice, Brian has handled a wide variety of coverage disputes arising under many different policy lines. He regularly counsels clients on coverage issues arising under automobile, comprehensive general liability, excess, umbrella, and other types of insurance policies. In addition to providing advice and counseling, Brian also represents insurers in multimillion-dollar coverage litigations, and was involved in two landmark insurance cases before the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Recently, in the life sciences area, Brian analyzed coverage issues raised by claims related to metoclopramide hydrochloride. He has been invited to join the prestigious CLM, a nonpartisan alliance of insurance companies, corporations, corporate counsel, litigation and risk managers, claims professionals and attorneys. Selected attorneys and law firms are extended membership invitations based on nominations from CLM Fellows.

Rivkin Radler

Brian Adkins

Member

Clark Hill PLC

Brian Alexander

Partner

The Rosen Law Firm

Brian Anderson

Brian Anderson is a Partner in Sheppard’s San Francisco office. He leads the Firm’s Advertising and Sports Practice. Brian represents brands, teams, leagues, companies, and investors as their chief legal strategist, managing various matters, ranging from commercial partnerships, sponsorships, media rights, naming rights, and licensing transactions to complying with advertising laws and data protection regulations. He mainly focuses on issues arising from using new technologies and business models, such as blockchain (NFTs, digital assets, etc.) and interactive entertainment (metaverses, virtual worlds, esports, etc.).

Sheppard

Brian Aronson

Partner

Mayer Brown

Brian Ascher

Brian C. Ascher is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Litigation and Media, Entertainment & Technology Practice Groups. Brian represents corporate and individual clients in a wide range of complex commercial litigation in both federal and state court and administrative proceedings, including several trials. Brian’s practice focuses on civil litigation, including contract, profit participation, trade secrets, and other intellectual property disputes. In addition, Brian has significant experience in litigating founder disputes and First Amendment cases.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Brian Ashe

Brian Ashe is a partner representing employers in all aspects of labor and employment law. His main areas of practice are employment litigation, employment class actions and counseling. Brian defends employers in complex wage and hour class actions, discrimination litigation, multi-party trade secret cases and multi-party contract litigation. He counsels clients in various aspects of human resources management, including employee privacy, employee discipline, wrongful discharge and equal employment opportunity. His counseling practice focuses on prevention and artful business strategy.

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Brian Avalos

Partner

Payet, Rey, Cauvi, Pérez Abogados

Brian Baily

Partner and Head of Litigation & Dispute Resolution Additional Practice Areas: Alternative Dispute Resolution Debt Recovery Insolvency & Corporate Restructuring Insurance & Professional Indemnity Privacy & Data Security Regulation

BHSM LLP incorporating OBH Partners

Brian Benjet

Partner; Co-Chair Global Compliance

DLA Piper LLP (US)

Brian Bidyk

Head of the firms oil and gas practice group. Practice encompasses a variety of corporate/commercial matters, with a specialization in M&A and divestitures in the oil and gas, electricity and renewable power industries. Advises major oil and gas corporations in the upstream, midstream and service sectors, as well as electricity developers, generators and transmission companies in respect of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and partnerships, as well as the operation, development and construction of energy projects. He currently acts as corporate secretary for several of his clients and has developed corporate finance experience through his work with both public and private companies in equity and loan financing.

McCarthy Tétrault

Brian Bohnenkamp

Partner

King & Spalding

Brian Bolin

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Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP