Professional Experience
Brian is a seasoned litigator representing clients in complex civil litigation, including large private sector and public sector clients. He leverages strategic and creative thinking to achieve the best outcome possible for each client’s individualized goals. At a time when relatively few civil cases proceed to trial, Brian’s experience taking multiple cases to trial and achieving successful verdicts provides clients a unique advantage. They can be confident he has the skills to artfully craft and execute a winning trial strategy if trial cannot be avoided. At the same time, clients’ settlement positions are strengthened by the opposing party’s knowledge our team is fully capable of trying the case if needed.
Brian has experience litigating in state and federal courts across the Pacific Northwest at the trial and appellate levels, including the Ninth Circuit and United States Supreme Court. He regularly represents clients in a wide variety of complex commercial, utility, real estate, and environmental litigation.
Recent Representative Cases:
Umatilla Electric Coop. v. 1st John 2:17, LLC, 21CV28343 (Morrow Cnty., OR 2024) (First chair in successful jury trial representing utility condemning transmission line easement).
Idaho Forest Group, LLC v. City of Bonners Ferry, CV11-23-0271 (Boundary Cnty., ID 2024) (First chair in bench trial representing municipal electric utility in rate challenge).