Brian J. Murray

Partner

Brian Murray leads the Chicago Office's Issues & Appeals Practice. He handles appeals in federal and state courts across the country. Brian also coordinates and tries commercial, multijurisdictional, and class action cases.

Brian's recent appellate arguments include Flomo v. Firestone Natural Rubber Co. (7th Cir. 2011), affirming summary judgment in a widely publicized Alien Tort Statute case; Howland v. First American Title Insurance Co. (7th Cir. 2011), defending class certification denial in a significant RESPA case; Coventry v. DDR (N.Y. App. Div. 2011), affirming a dismissal in a multibillion dollar real estate dispute; Erwin v. Motorola Inc. (Ill. App. 2011), a forum non conveniens appeal in a sprawling set of workplace exposure cases; and Yoost v. Caspari (Mich. App. 2011), reversing and dismissing for lack of personal jurisdiction a case against celebrity Hank Asher. He also has represented numerous parties at the certiorari and merits stages, and as amici curiae, before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Recent trial level engagements include defending environmental enforcement actions for Midwest Generation and EME Homer City, consumer fraud class actions for Abercrombie & Fitch, antitrust class actions for Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan and Yazaki, shareholder disputes for Abbott Laboratories, wage and hour class actions for Empire Today, and a significant commercial arbitration for IBM.

Brian acts as the Firmwide Lateral Hiring Partner. He teaches Complex Litigation at the University of Chicago Law School. And he serves on the Seventh Circuit Bar Association (chair, Membership Committee), the American Inns of Court Foundation Board (Seventh Circuit trustee), and the National Immigrant Justice Center's Litigation Steering Committee.