Brian Coughlin

Practice Areas

Criminal Defense

Government Investigations

Internal Investigations

Juvenile Delinquency

Personal Injury/Wrongful Death

Professional Licensing

Record Expungements and Sealing

Student Conduct Defense

Title IX Defense

Career

Brian Coughlin is an accomplished litigator and community leader. His practice focuses on matters of criminal justice throughout the state of Florida. Coughlin’s outstanding legal work has been repeatedly recognized by Super Lawyers and Florida Trend’s Legal Elite. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Corporate Compliance Law and Criminal Defense: General Practice). Coughlin is ranked by his peers at the highest level of professional excellence for legal knowledge, communication skills, and ethical standards.

Coughlin is the President of the Jacksonville Bar Association. He is a former Chairperson of the Florida Bar Professional Ethics Committee. Coughlin serves on the Board of Directors for the Community Hospice & Palliative Care Foundation, the Board of Trustees for Daniel Kids, and is Vice President of the Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation.

Coughlin received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 2000 and a law degree from the University of Florida in 2003. Coughlin prosecuted criminal matters at the State Attorney’s Office in Jacksonville before joining Bedell in 2007. He was named a director of the firm in 2012.

Professional Memberships

Jacksonville Bar Association, President (current)

Jacksonville Bar Association, Board of Governors

The Florida Bar, Juvenile Court Rules Committee (2019 – 2025)

The Florida Bar, Professional Ethics Committee; Chair (2016 – 2017)

D.W. Perkins Bar Association

Leadership Jacksonville, Class of 2016

Daniel Kids, Board of Trustees and Committee Chair

Tom Coughlin Jay Fund, Vice President and Board of Directors

Community Hospice & Palliative Care Foundation, Board of Directors

American Bar Association

Federal Bar Association, Jacksonville Division

Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

The Catholic Lawyers Guild – Diocese of St. Augustine

Experience

Bar Admissions:

Florida, 2004

U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Florida

U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit

Education

Awards