Brendan Little - Seattle, WA

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, 2010
    J.D.
    Honors: cum laude
    Law Journal: Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, Associate Editor

• Non Legal Education

  • University of Washington, 2006
    B.S., Bachelor of Science
    Major: Economics

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner

Past Positions

• U.S. District Judge Carol E. Jackson in the Eastern District of Missouri, Clerk
• New York State Attorney General's Office, Litigation Division, Assistant Attorney General

Pro Bono Activities

• Taxpayers Against Fraud
• Naval Historical Foundation

Representative Clients

• $30 Million jury verdict for an Oregon widow of a 67 year-old deceased mesothelioma victim against Ameron Corporation for four months of asbestos exposures at Ameron’s Bondstrand factory in Brea, California in the 1970s. (Multnomah County, OR, 2022)

• $11 Million dollars in Settlements to a 74 year old union Boilermaker with mesothelioma exposed to asbestos at paper mills, including Weyerhaeuser, Longview, Simpson Tacoma, Georgia Pacific Bellingham, Crown Zellerbach, and Potlatch. They also worked at shipyards such as Todd and Lockheed, oil refineries such as Shell, Texaco Anacortes, ARCO, and power plants like Hanford and Centralia Steam, all located in the Pacific Northwest.

• $6.4 million in settlements for a 44 year-old mesothelioma victim exposed to asbestos from building materials containing vermiculite from Libby, Montana.

• $5.1 million in settlements for a 71 year-old mesothelioma victim exposed to asbestos while working as a pipefitter at paper mills and other industrial facilities in Washington and Oregon.

• U.S. vs. UTC Laboratories, resulting in $42.6 million settlement for taxpayers and a multi-million-dollar award to the lead whistleblower arising from a scheme to defraud Medicare for genetic testing services. Brendan represented the lead whistleblower.

• U.S. v. Universal Health Services, resulting in a $117 million settlement for taxpayers and a multi-million-dollar award to the second-filed whistleblower, whom Brendan represented.

Representative Cases

• U.S. vs. UTC Laboratories
• U.S. v. Universal Health Services
• Barden, et al. v. Johnson & Johnson, et al., No. MID-L-1809-17AS
  • Year: 2019
• Paige, et al., v. New York City Housing Authority, No. 17-CV-7481, 2018 WL 3863451 (S.D. N.Y. 2018)

Bar Admissions

• Washington
• Oregon
• New York
• New Jersey

Other Affiliations

• Washington State Bar Association
• Oregon Trial Lawyers Association
• American Association for Justice
• Taxpayers Against Fraud