Practice Areas

• Business Finance & Restructuring
  

• Political Law
  

• Media
  

• Contract/Commercial
  

• Appellate
  

• Media & First Amendment
  

• Intellectual Property Litigation
  

Brady Williamson is a constitutional and corporate litigator who has taught periodically at the University of Wisconsin Law School for more than 20 years. Brady is a member of the firm’s Business Finance and Restructuring Practice and Media Law Groups. He has successfully represented clients in the U.S. Supreme Court, and he often has appeared in the federal and state appellate courts.

Since late 2004, he has been involved in constitutional and election law projects in Iraq, Sudan, Bangladesh and Ukraine, traveling frequently to Baghdad and East Africa to work with the committees drafting new national and regional constitutions. (His latest trip to Iraq, his fourth, came just before the March 7, 2010 parliamentary elections.) His constitutional work has been sponsored, under a grant from the U.S. government, by the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, a nonprofit organization working to strengthen and expand democracy world-wide. He also has served on the public advisory committees formed by U.S. Senators Russell Feingold (D.-WI) and  Herb Kohl (D.-WI) to help evaluate U.S. Supreme Court nominees.

In the United States, Brady’s legal practice focuses on appellate advocacy and corporate law and reorganization. He has argued and won a U.S. Supreme Court case that addressed the relationship between federal and state law, and he has litigated a wide range of Equal Protection, Due Process and First Amendment cases, including media law and election law and campaign finance disputes.

In 1996, Brady was appointed by the President of the United States to chair the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, which submitted its 1,300-page report to Congress, the Chief Justice and the President on October 20, 1997. Brady is a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference, whose membership is limited to 60 academics, judges, and practitioners with a particular focus on bankruptcy law. He is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and the American College of Bankruptcy.

On December 23, 2009, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York appointed him an examiner in the General Motors reorganization cases.