Brian Dunne

Brian Dunne

Brian Dunne is a trial lawyer specializing in complex, cutting-edge cases on behalf of plaintiffs. At Pierce Bainbridge, Brian represents individuals, companies, and nationwide classes in a wide variety of large and high-profile matters. Brian is lead counsel on behalf of Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard in several matters; is co-lead counsel in multiple complex class actions, including a RICO case against Southwest and Boeing pending in the Eastern District of Texas, an antitrust lawsuit against Facebook on behalf of developers in the Northern District of California, and an overcharge class action against Capital One and Amazon in the Eastern District of Virginia; and continues to seek fair compensation for independent inventors and patentholders through intellectual property litigation covering a broad range of technologies.

Prior to joining Pierce Bainbridge, Brian was a cofounder of a litigation boutique that recouped tens of millions of dollars for clients, and appeared on Law360’s Top 5 list of plaintiff-side patent firms for the years 2015 and 2016. Brian has been lead counsel in more than five dozen patent cases over the course of a decade, and has unique expertise in maximizing the value of multi-patent portfolios by developing and executing nationwide litigation and licensing strategies.

Throughout his career, Brian has been praised for his ability to distill complicated, cutting-edge concepts into clear, accessible arguments—a skill that he uses as lead counsel for complex intellectual property, antitrust, consumer protection, and Constitutional litigation on behalf of plaintiffs.

Brian has a physics degree from Stanford University, graduated in the top five percent of his class at the University of Chicago Law School (where he was a member of the University of Chicago Law Review), and clerked for federal (Ninth Circuit) and State (New York Court of Appeals) appellate judges.

Brian is an accomplished legal writer and oral advocate, and is able to clearly and effectively articulate arguments in any area of the law—and in any tribunal. While at the University of Chicago Law School, Brian won the Joseph Henry Beale Prize for excellence in legal writing; was awarded a John M. Olin Fellowship in Law, Economics, and Policy; and wrote published articles on federal court standing and the competitive effects of API copyrightability. Over the course of his career, Brian has briefed and/or argued cases in California, Texas, Florida, Illinois, Wisconsin, New York, Washington, Indiana, Delaware, the International Trade Commission, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Federal Circuits.