He is admitted to practice before all courts in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Mr. Brickey was a National Merit Scholar who graduated from Brandeis University, and thereafter spent several years working for the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C, before attending the University of Minnesota Law School. While in law school, Mr. Brickey served as the captain of his school's International Law Moot Court term, clerked with the Sherburne County Public Defender's Office, was selected for an international law exchange program with Renmin University in Beijing, China, and received his school's Book Award for his work on criminal law and theory.