Brianna K. Pierce
Brianna is an experienced litigator with expertise in high value, complex disputes involving antitrust, fraud, unfair business practices, trade secrets, commercial contracts, trusts and estates, fiduciary removal suits, defamation, and privacy rights. She has also spent a significant amount of time counseling private clients in more personal matters, including civil harassment restraining orders and anti-stalking injunctions.
Brianna puts her years of studying the complexity and interrelationship of legal, social, and ethical issues to use throughout her practice and, therefore, brings a practical but personable approach to business and legal issues.
Education
• New York University School of Law, LL.M. in Taxation
• Cornell Law School, J.D.
• University of California, San Diego, B.A.
Admissions
• New York
• California
• U.S. District Court: Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court: Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court: Central District of California
• U.S. District Court: Southern District of New York
• U.S. District Court: Eastern District of New York
Founding Partner
Representative Experience
• Representing the founder of a cryptocurrency business in a multimillion-dollar fraud-based dispute involving international litigants and successfully securing a $70.9 million judgment for her client
• Representing multiple companies and individuals in connection with over $100 million in damages arising out of federal and state antitrust violations
• Representing a major real-estate developer in a multimillion-dollar partnership dispute in state court against a former professional baseball player
• Representing multiple artists in a multi-million-dollar defamation and civil harassment suit against a stalker
• Representing a successful entrepreneur and his business against fraud and trade secret misappropriation claims brought by a former business partner
• Representing various Lead Plaintiffs in a securities class actions alleging fraud claims against publicly listed companies
• Representing a corporation operating daycare centers in New York in an administrative proceeding challenging the improper deferral of claims by a state agency
• Representing more than 100 consumers in a multi-million-dollar dispute against Coinbase regarding unauthorized access of and withdrawals from consumers’ accounts by hackers
• Defending clients from white collar investigations initiated by the United States Department of Justice
• Challenging the validity of a Last Will & Testament in a multimillion-dollar estate and reaching a settlement on behalf of the heirs-at-law.
• Defending the fiduciary of a multimillion-dollar estate from challenges to a Last Will & Testament and Revocable Trust, and successfully obtaining dismissal of substantially all causes of action.
• Advising clients on legal issues involving their privately owned businesses, including governance matters, succession planning, and shareholder agreements.
