Wayne F Dennison

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Wayne Dennison is a general commercial litigator with a prominent trial practice. Over the course of his career, he has chaired or co-chaired multiple practice groups at the Firm, including both its international and domestic litigation and arbitration practices. He currently serves as a practice group leader of Brown Rudnick's Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group, named a national trial practice group of the year for 2022 by Law360.

Wayne has repeatedly handled high-stakes litigation through jury trials and appeals and notably served as special trial counsel to Johnny Depp in his successful, widely-watched, defamation litigation against former-wife Amber Heard. Wayne has also represented Mr. Depp and rock guitar legend Jeff Beck in a declaratory judgment action as to their ownership of music rights.

In addition, Wayne has represented technology companies, life science companies, health care companies, major casino operators, major sporting goods manufacturers, major developers and other nationally recognized corporations and entities in a wide variety of litigation matters.

His experience in complex commercial litigation includes international arbitration, class action, defamation, qui tam, patent, contract, health care, sports, construction, land use, bankruptcy, telecommunications, environmental and public interest litigation. Wayne works with a range of clients from Fortune 500 corporations to elected officials to A-list celebrities, rock stars and other high-net-worth individuals.

Wayne is a frequent guest commentator with respect to trial matters on a national cable network.