Brendan J. Begley

Brendan Begley is a shareholder at Weintraub Tobin and spearheads the firm’s Appeals and Writs group. He is an Appellate Law Specialist certified by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. Mr. Begley has been lead counsel of over 100 appeals, in both state and federal courts, concerning various practice areas, including Family Law; Trusts and Probate Litigation; Employment Law; ERISA litigation; Anti-SLAPP Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Civil-Rights Law; and Personal-Injury Litigation.

Before graduating, with honors, from U.C. Davis Law School in 1998, Mr. Begley worked as a newspaper reporter for The Sacramento Daily Recorder and correspondent for other Daily Journal publications. While in law school, he worked as a law clerk at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Hawaii. After law school, he served as a judicial clerk to the Hon. John M. Gerrard; then Associate Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court; and later as a judicial clerk to the Hon. Connie M. Callahan, Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The U.S. Supreme Court granted Mr. Begley’s petition for a writ of certiorari that led to the high court hearing and resolving (in favor of Brendan’s client) the famous “Pledge of Allegiance” case in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, 540 U.S. 945 (2003). He has delivered numerous public presentations to lawyers, executives, managers, and supervisors on appellate law and best employment practices.