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Brickford Y. Brown
4110 East Parham Road
Richmond, Virginia 23228
(804) 864-4840
(804) 864-4859 (fax)
bybrown@moranbrownpc.com
Brickford Y. Brown practices in the areas of products liability and toxic torts, where he has specialized in the national and regional representation of companies in complex, consolidated class actions. He has over 25 years of trial experience, having tried in excess of fifty complex cases to verdict and scores of other matters. He has been the lead counsel in California, Louisiana and West Virginia for several Fortune 500 companies in toxic exposure and pharmaceutical litigation. In addition, he has advised and defended clients in the defense of personal injury cases involving consumer products and automobiles. Mr. Brown has also received defense verdicts in several high profile criminal cases, including murder, using the diminished capacity defense, and the first federal criminal prosecution of a mine superintendent under MSHA. He has made numerous arguments before state Supreme Courts and appeared on as many more on brief. Mr. Brown has tried cases to verdict in state and federal courts in Virginia, West Virginia, Louisiana and California and has appeared in 21 other states and the District of Columbia.
Mr. Brown is the immediate past chair of the Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee of the Defense Research Institute, Inc.
Mr. Brown is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. In 2006, he was one of five lawyers in the state named in the inaugural issue of Virginia Super Lawyers in the category of Personal Injury Defense: Products.
Several of Mr. Brown's articles can be found on the Moran Brown website:
"Are We Out of the Gray Area Yet? Recent Developments in the Use of PET and SPECT Scans to Prove Causation and Injury in Toxic Tort Litigation", presented at the DRI Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Seminar in March 2003.
Does Your PET Bite? The Misapplication of Brain Scans in Toxic Tort Litigation, originally published in the March 1997 issue of For the Defense.
Current Employment Position(s):
Principal and Shareholder
Areas of Practice:
• Toxic Torts
• Products Liability
• Litigation Management
• Medical Devices, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
• Insurance Coverage Litigation
• Professional Malpractice
Bar Admissions:
• West Virginia, 1979
• Virginia, 1992
• U.S. District Court Southern District of West Virginia, 1983
• U.S. District Court Northern District of West Virginia, 1988
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia, 1992
• U.S. District Court Western District of Virginia, 1999
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1998
Education:
• Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia, 1979; J.D.
• Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 1976; B.B.A.
Honors: Omicron Delta Kappa
Major: Business Management
Professional Associations and Memberships:
• Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel, 1997 - Present
Toxic Tort and Environ., Pharmaceutical Lit., Prod. Liab. Committees
• Defense Research Institute, Inc., Member 1986-- and Chair 2001-2003
Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee
• Defense Research Institute, Inc., 1999 – 2001 Chair, Programs Subcommittee
• Richmond Bar Association
• Virginia Bar Association
• Kanawha County Bar Association, 1982 - 1991
Vice President, 1988-89; Treasurer, 1987-88; Secretary 1986-87
• West Virginia State Bar, Member 1979-Present
Criminal Law Committee, 1983-1991
• Communities in Schools
Board of Directors and Executive Committee, 2000-2002
• West Virginia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 1991
Charter Member
• Chesterfield Public Education Foundation, Board of Trustees 1996--Present; Vice President 1997-1999; President 1999-2002
Published Works:
• "PPA: What's on the Horizon Now?", Food and Drug Law Institute UPDATE, March/April, 2001
• "Does Your PET Bite? The Misapplication of Brain Scans in Toxic Tort Litigation", For the Defense, March, 1997
Representative Cases:
• Blevins v. New Holland North America, Inc., 97 F.Supp.2d 747 (W.D.Va. 2000)
• Mao v. City of Charles Town, 925 F.2d 1457, 1991 WL 18521 (4th Circuit W.Va. 1991)
• Lowe v. National Micrographics Systems of West Virginia, Inc., 183 W.Va. 162, 394 S.E.2d 761 (W.Va. 1990)
• Calhoun County Assessor v. Consolidated Gas Supply Corp., 358 S.E.2d 791 (W.Va. 1987)
• U.S. v. Jones, 735 F.2d 785 (4th Circuit W.Va. 1984)
• State v. Steele, 314 S.E.2d 412 (W.Va. 1984)
Classes/Seminars Taught:
• Are We Out of the Gray Area Yet? Recent Developments in the Use of PET and SPECT Scans to Prove Causation and Injury in Toxic Tort Litigation, Defense Research Institute, Inc. Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Seminar , March 20, 2003 - March 21, 2003
• "After the Deal is Done: Landlord and Developer Liability for Mold and Other Environmental Hazards", Environmental Law Section, Alabama State Bar, 2002 Annual Program, Point Clear, Alabama, June 29, 2002
• Toxic Torts and Environmental Law, Defense Research Institute, Inc., March 14, 2002 - March 15, 2002
• "Pay Me Now AND Pay Me Later - Medical Monitoring Claims", Defense Research Institute, Inc., Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Seminar, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2001
• "Industrial Hygiene - The Science of Exposure Assessment, " with John W. Spencer, CIH, CSP, Defense Research Institute, Inc., Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Seminar, San Antonio, Texas, 2000
• "Proving the Negative: Using Industrial Hygiene to Disprove Exposure-Prepping the Expert", Defense Research Institute, Inc., Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Seminar, San Antonio, Texas, 2000
• "Update on Mass Torts", Defense Research Institute, Inc., Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee Meeting, San Diego, California, 1999
• "The Use of PET Scans in Toxic Tort Litigation", Defense Research Institute, Inc., Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Seminar, Baltimore, Maryland, 1998
• "Environmental Regulatory Update", Defense Research Institute, Inc., Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Committee Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, 1997
• "The Use of Positron Emission Tomography and Single-Photon-Emission Computed Tomography in Toxic Tort Litigation", Defense Research Institute, Inc., Toxic Torts and Environmental Law Seminar, Baltimore, Maryland, 1997
Honors and Awards:
• Listed, The Best Lawyers in America (2009)
• Martindale-Hubbell Peer-Review Rated AV®
• Virginia Super Lawyers - Personal Injury Defense: Products (2006, 2008)
• International Who's Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers
Past Employment Positions:
• McGuireWoods LLP, Partner, 1991 - 2001
• Lewis, Cicarrello & Friedberg, Partner, 1987-91; Associate, 1982-87
