Bruce R Braun
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BRUCE BRAUN is a global co-leader of the firmwide 750 lawyer Litigation practice group and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Bruce has been recognized as one of the top litigators in Chicago and in the nation.
Bruce’s practice encompasses a wide range of subject matter areas, including antitrust, professional liability, securities fraud, internal investigations, breach of contract, intellectual property, software litigation, insurance and consumer fraud. He also has significant experience representing organizations and individuals in regulatory matters before the DOJ, SEC, PCAOB and other federal and state regulators.
As one of the lead trial lawyers, Bruce defended Microsoft in its landmark three-month antitrust remedies trial in Washington, D.C., which resulted in a complete defense verdict. He subsequently represented Microsoft in a series of trade secret and Intellectual property disputes involving the first Windows Smartphone (Sendo v. Microsoft), the Windows trademark (Lindows v. Microsoft) and volume management software (Symantec/Veritas v. Microsoft). Bruce represented McDonald’s Corporation in the groundbreaking childhood obesity class action in the Southern District of New York (Pelman v. McDonald’s) and subsequently represented McDonald’s in class action consumer fraud litigation involving trans fat disclosures. Bruce has represented numerous accounting firms in class action MDL and other consolidated proceedings arising from the accounting frauds at Countrywide, Parmalat, Refco, HealthSouth, American Realty Capital Partners, Platinum Partners, and GPB, among others.
In addition, Bruce has extensive appellate experience, including arguing two landmark decisions before the Illinois Supreme Court. He argued and won the seminal asbestos conspiracy case of McClure v. Owens Corning, and he argued and won Mikolajczyk v. Ford, which set the legal standard for design defect cases in Illinois and which overturned one of the nation’s 75 largest verdicts. Bruce has argued in numerous federal appellate courts.