Biography
Brian is a trial lawyer whose practice centers on complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on disputes over trade secrets and non‑competes.
His broad experience includes litigation related to complex financial services and matters involving software and technology. He routinely litigates substantial cases with many millions of dollars at stake.
Brian has more than a decade of experience representing clients in trials and injunction proceedings before the state and federal courts, and in arbitration forums in the United States and abroad. He represents Fortune 500 and midsize companies as well as startups in lawsuits spanning a wide range of industries – commercial real estate, financial services, gaming, health care, higher education, insurance, manufacturing, mortgage banking and software technology.
With experience in arbitrations before the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, American Arbitration Association and the London Court of International Arbitration, Brian maintains a particular interest in arbitration law. He teaches arbitration law as an adjunct professor at Rutgers School of Law and is a prolific writer on arbitration issues, with articles published by the New York Law Journal, New Jersey Law Journal, Law360 and the American Bar Association.
Before Fox Rothschild
Prior to joining Fox, Brian was an attorney at a national law firm based in Philadelphia, where he co-founded the firm’s Veterans’ Rights Pro Bono Practice Group and helped to organize the International and Domestic Arbitration Group. He also previously served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge James F. McClure of the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
While in law school, Brian was a member of the Washington and Lee Law Review. He earned the distinctions of best oralist and best brief finalist at the John W. Davis Moot Court Competition. As a Burks Scholar, he taught research and writing skills to first-year students. He was also inducted into the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society.
In college, Brian spent a semester abroad at the National University of Ireland Galway.
Beyond Fox Rothschild
Brian is active in the American Bar Association. He served as Co-Chair of the ABA Section of Litigation's Business Torts and Unfair Competition Committee for the 2017-18 bar year. In 2014, he was Co-Chair of the ABA Corporate Counsel CLE Seminar. He is also active in the Irish American Business Chamber and Network and the Bucknell Professional Network.
Brian was invited to join The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, an honorary organization of attorneys, judges, law faculty and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and to the highest principles of the legal profession.
In his pro bono practice work, Brian represents homeless veterans before the Veteran’s Administration. He has previously litigated pro bono cases on behalf of disabled New Jersey residents and gay rights advocates.
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
Education
- Washington and Lee University School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 2005)
- Law Review, member
- Bucknell University (B.A., 2001)
Memberships
- American Bar Association
- Business Torts and Unfair Competition Committee (Co-Chair)
- Corporate Counsel Committee
- Judicial Internship Opportunity Program
- Irish American Business Chamber and Network
- The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation
- Brehon Society
- Bucknell Professional Network
- Greater Philadelphia Rugby Business Network
Judicial Clerkship
- U.S. District Judge James F. McClure, Middle District of Pennsylvania

