With a comprehensive knowledge of the insurance industry, Brandon advises clients and handles complex litigation with policyholders across the U.S. on a broad range of coverage and bad faith issues arising under a variety of policies, including architects and engineers, health care professionals, and attorneys’ professional liability; directors and officers liability; employment practices liability, media-tech and cyber liability; and commercial general liability. Brandon also regularly provides advice and counseling to insurers on various claims-handling and coverage issues.

Outside his insurance coverage practice, Brandon has handled complex litigation in a variety of arenas, including banking, intellectual property, antitrust, and pharmaceutical. He also has experience in congressional lobbying.

Brandon also has significant pro bono experience, including successfully representing a Salvadoran domestic violence survivor in her application for asylum before the U.S. Immigration Court, and a six-month rotation at Bread for the City Legal Clinic, representing low-income Washington, D.C., residents in landlord-tenant disputes in the District of Columbia Superior Court.

• Obtained summary judgment on behalf of a medical professional liability insurer in coverage litigation brought by an insured nurse staffing agency, which was recently affirmed by the Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division.
• Successfully represented a primary insurer in a bad faith/subrogation action brought by excess insurer.
• Successfully represented an insurer in litigation with the National Football League regarding coverage under commercial general liability policies for the billion-dollar NFL concussion class action settlement and other concussion-related lawsuits.
• Successfully represented a D&O insurer in litigation related to multimillion-dollar government-contract overbilling allegations.
• Recently obtained summary judgment in favor of an architects & engineers liability insurer in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
• Successfully represented an insurer in bad faith litigation brought by policyholder arising out of commercial general liability insurer’s denial of coverage based on policyholder’s application misrepresentations and omissions.
• Obtained favorable ruling on behalf of a D&O insurer in an arbitration with a state electric company involving coverage for a multibillion dollar wildfire claims.
• Successfully represented an insurer in an action by a prejudgment claimant in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada related to a personal injury suffered on Native American tribal property, with the Ninth Circuit affirming the lower court.
• Successfully represented an insurer in a subrogation claim related to trademark violations, in the Ninth Circuit.
• Represents numerous insurers involved in nationwide coverage litigation with respect to health care liability, directors and officers liability, employment practices liability, architects and engineers professional liability, media-tech/cyber liability, and commercial general liability.
• Obtained a favorable settlement on behalf of a national accounting firm in a malpractice suit asserted by the FDIC.
• Secured asylum on behalf of a pro bono client fleeing the domestic violence of her partner in El Salvador.

• Best Lawyers in America®: Insurance Law (2024-2026)
• Rising Star, Insurance Coverage, Law & Politics’ Super Lawyers (2016-2018)
• Honors, Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll, D.C. Access to Justice Commission and the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center (2020, 2024)