Brian W. Anderson is a litigation associate in the Orange County office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where he is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department, the Antitrust Practice Group, and the Class Action Practice Group. His practices focuses on antitrust litigation as well as civil litigation in various substantive areas of law.
Representative antitrust experience:
- Represented through trial a top electronics company facing antitrust complaints attacking the core of its business mode
- Represented a software platform operator in two parallel antitrust class actions brought on behalf of third party software developers and consumers in which one class was denied class certification and the other class entered a settlement favorable to the client
- Helped navigate a large technology company through a successful summary judgment motion resulting in the complete dismissal of all antitrust claims
- Represented a pharmaceutical manufacturing company in antitrust class action litigation arising out of ANDA patent litigation
- Represented a prominent health insurance company in antitrust class action litigation brought against it by independent pharmacies
Representative litigation experience:
- Asserted nearly two dozen patents on behalf of a preeminent biopharmaceutical company in two different parallel suits, successfully opposing a critical preliminary injunction and helped navigate both cases to favorable settlement
- Represented one of California’s largest farms in a labor dispute against an absent union
- Represented a technology company in seeking reconsideration of a decision from the United States Supreme Court on constitutional grounds
- Provided legal advice to a Southern California municipality regarding a dispute with a mobile electric scooter rental service
- Provided key damages analysis for one of the nation’s largest telecommunications companies in a patent dispute which resulted in a favorable settlement
- Represented the manufacturer of highway safety devices in a string of half-a-dozen products liability suits, simultaneously
- Conducted an investigation into an incident regarding a possible oil spill on behalf of large energy company
- Helped navigate a large university to settle complaints from dozens of individual plaintiffs regarding alleged unlawful actions by one of its employees
* Includes experience from prior to joining Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
He earned his law degree in 2017 from the UCLA School of Law where he was the Deputy Chief Managing Editor of the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs. During law school, Brian also served as International Chair of Student Chapters, overseeing all student chapters of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, worldwide. He graduated in 2014 from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was a dual major in International Relations and Russian. Having lived in Ukraine for two years, Brian maintains conversational Russian language skills. Prior to joining the firm, he was an associate with Irell & Manella LLP.
Brian is a member of the California Bar and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit as well as the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
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Credentials
Education:
- University of California - Los Angeles - 2017 Juris Doctor
- Brigham Young University - 2014 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- California Bar