Bruce R Braun

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BRUCE BRAUN is a global co-leader of the firmwide 750 lawyer Litigation practice group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Before entering private practice, Bruce served as a law clerk for William H. Rehnquist, the Chief Justice of the United States, and Joel M. Flaum of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Bruce is a nationally acclaimed first chair trial lawyer and trusted advisor whose practice includes antitrust, professional liability, securities fraud, internal investigations, breach of contract, intellectual property, software litigation, insurance and consumer fraud matters. He also has significant experience representing organizations and individuals in regulatory matters before the DOJ, SEC, PCAOB and other federal and state regulators.

As one of the lead trial lawyers, Bruce defended Microsoft in its landmark three-month antitrust remedies trial in Washington, D.C., which resulted in a complete defense verdict. He subsequently represented Microsoft in a series of trade secret and Intellectual property disputes involving the first Windows Smartphone (Sendo v. Microsoft), the Windows trademark (Lindows v. Microsoft) and volume management software (Symantec/Veritas v. Microsoft). Bruce represented McDonald’s Corporation in the groundbreaking childhood obesity class action in the Southern District of New York (Pelman v. McDonald’s) and subsequently represented McDonald’s in class action consumer fraud litigation involving trans fat disclosures. Bruce has represented numerous accounting firms in class action MDL and other consolidated proceedings arising from the accounting frauds at FTX, Countrywide, Parmalat, Refco, HealthSouth, American Realty Capital Partners, Platinum Partners, Direct Lending, Infinity Q, and GPB, among others.