Brown Rudnick

Brown Rudnick is an international law firm that serves clients around the world from offices in key financial centers in the United States and the United Kingdom. The firm has over 250 lawyers and focuses on industry-driven, client-facing practices where it is recognized as a market leader.
Pro bono
 
In 2001, Brown Rudnick forged a new vehicle to advance its pro bono efforts. The Brown Rudnick Center for the Public Interest is an innovative model combining the Firm’s pro bono, charitable giving and community volunteer efforts. Through the Center, the Firm champions, coordinates and celebrates its public interest work.
In 2022, Brown Rudnick announced the formation of the Brown Rudnick Civil Rights Summer Fellowship at Lawyers for Civil Rights (LCR) following the successful representation of disenfranchised voters in Worcester in a federal voting rights lawsuit that changed the city’s districting system. LCR is a Boston-based legal organization dedicated to promoting equal opportunity and fighting discrimination on behalf of people of color and immigrants. The summer fellowship is designed to help support and encourage future civil rights lawyers.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
For 14 years in a row, Brown Rudnick has earned a perfect score on the Corporate Equality Index – a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation. In 2022, Brown Rudnick was among 141 law firms to meet all of the index’s criteria, receiving a 100 percent ranking and a designation as one of the Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality. For three years in a row, Brown Rudnick has achieved Mansfield Certification, demonstrating a commitment to increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the legal profession. The certification, organized by Diversity Lab, measures whether law firms have affirmatively considered at least 30 percent women, underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, LGBTQ+ lawyers, and lawyers with disabilities for leadership and governance roles, promotions to partner, formal client pitch opportunities, and senior lateral positions.
Newsworthy Matters
* Texas Two-Step J&J; Brown Rudnick acts as co-lead counsel to the Official Committee of Talc Claimants (the TCC), which represents nearly 40,000 mesothelioma and ovarian cancer victims, in its opposition to the so-called Texas two-step bankruptcy of Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management. In January 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted the TCC’s motion to dismiss the case for its “lack of good faith.” 
* Purdue Pharmaceuticals; Brown Rudnick lawyers are advising on the Purdue Pharmaceuticals opioid bankruptcy, precipitated by the thousands of lawsuits brought against the debtors by states, municipalities, and American Indian tribes. Purdue Pharma is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the United States and was the creator of Oxycontin.
* Depp v. Heard; Brown Rudnick successfully represented Hollywood star Johnny Depp in his defamation trial against ex-wife and actress Amber Heard. In June 2022, a Virginia jury ruled overwhelmingly in favor of Depp following a six-week trial, awarding him $15 million in damages and $2 million to Heard. Both sides appealed parts of the decision but settled in December 2022.
* BlockFi; Brown Rudnick is representing the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Chapter 11 case of crypto lending platform BlockFi Inc., which filed for bankruptcy in November 2022.
* |The Bahamas; FTX Digital Markets Ltd.; Brown Rudnick serves as counsel, alongside Bahamian lawyers and with Bahamian communications experts, to The Bahamas in certain matters of engagement related to the collapse of FTX Digital Markets Ltd.
Recognitions 
Brown Rudnick is an AmLaw 200 firm that has been recognized in multiple legal ranking guides, including Chambers USA, Chambers UK, Benchmark Litigation, and Legal 500 UK. Brown Rudnick was awarded Law360’s “Practice Group of the Year” for 2022 in Bankruptcy and Trials. The firm previously won Law360’s “Bankruptcy Group of the Year” in 2014 and 2020, underscoring the group’s reputation as one of the top bankruptcy practices worldwide and a market leader in representing Official Committees in the nation’s largest and most complex Chapter 11 cases.
Past and Current Chairmen
* André Jasse, 1978-2003
* Joseph Ryan, 2003-2019
* William Baldiga, 2019-2022
* Vincent Guglielmotti, 2022-present
Notable lawyers and alumni
* George Bachrach
* Jonathan Fahey
* Barbara Lenk
* Bill Lockyer
* Mary Mazzio
* Thomas Ritter
* Andrew Sherman
* Camille Vasquez
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