Brent Murphy is a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins.
Brent’s practice focuses on appeals, dispositive motions, and strategic counseling in litigation involving complex copyright issues, as well as communications, technology, and trademark and other intellectual property.
Brent has drafted appellate briefs in matters before the Supreme Court of the United States (at the certiorari, merits, and amicus stages), the federal courts of appeals, and state appellate courts around the country. He has also been a primary author for dozens of briefs in federal and state trial courts, and in federal administrative proceedings.
Beyond his copyright, connectivity, and communications work, Brent’s experience encompasses a wide variety of substantive legal issues. Representative matters have involved cutting-edge issues of constitutional and administrative law; securities litigation and regulation; and complex commercial litigation and class actions.
Brent joined Latham after serving as a law clerk to then-Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Judge Paul J. Kelly Jr. of the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Brent graduated summa cum laude from Notre Dame Law School, where he served as editor in chief of the Notre Dame Law Review and received the Hoynes Prize, graduating first in his class.
Brent’s recent experience includes representing:
Brent also maintains an active pro bono practice, which regularly partners with groups including:
Shout-out to a team at Latham & Watkins that defended Adobe Inc. from a securities suit targeting a more than 20% drop in the company’s stock price.
Latham litigation team earned honors after securing affirmance of a summary judgment victory for The Home Depot in an Eleventh Circuit appeal implicating two significant issues of ERISA law.
Latham team is recognized after winning the affirmance of the dismissal of a securities suit against Philip Morris International.