About Brian
Brian is a Jacksonville native who has dedicated his life’s work to representing injured people in his hometown. Brian’s core conviction of exceptional competence, commitment, and compassion is the foundation on which he handles every winning case. This conviction was forged through experience in trying cases and achieving significant settlements which, over the course of his career, collectively total over tens of millions of dollars in recoveries. Brian has helped his clients in a broad range of subject areas, ranging from wrongful death, medical malpractice, and brain injuries, while taking pride in pursuing the difficult cases that other personal injury lawyers have turned down.
Experience
Brian began his legal career at Weitz & Luxenberg, a mass tort litigation firm in New York City, fighting against multinational corporations on behalf of victims of asbestos exposure. After graduating law school with honors from the University of Florida, Brian was hired by Levin Papantonio Rafferty, one of the largest personal injury firms in the country, to advocate for women and families injured by Bayer Pharmaceuticals and their birth control drugs Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella. Since returning home to Jacksonville, where he now raises his three children with his wife, Katherine, Brian has continued to tenaciously defend his clients’ rights against some of the largest corporations in the world, such as auto manufacturers, healthcare systems, and media conglomerates in claims involving defamation and reputational injury.
Brian was recently selected as a 2023 member of the Nation’s Top One Percent by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel, selected by a blue ribbon panel of attorneys, and approved by a judicial review board as exhibiting virtue in the practice of law. Only the top one percent of attorneys in the United States are awarded membership in NADC. Brian has also been recognized as one of “America’s Top 100 Lawyers” as a result of his outstanding career-long achievements.
Background
Brian graduated high school in Jacksonville from Stanton College Preparatory School and received his B.A. from Davidson College in North Carolina, majoring in philosophy and German. While at Davidson, he studied for a year at the Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg, Germany, focusing on 20th-century European philosophy. While abroad, Brian spent three months traveling inside Bosnia, Kosovo, and Serbia and documenting the human struggles in the aftermath of the Balkan Wars. Brian’s genuine passion for narrating the human experience enables him to build relationships of trust and confidence with each client from the very first meeting to compellingly bring their claims to life in front of a jury.
