Brian is a partner in the Sacramento office of Koeller Nebeker Carlson Haluck, LLP. His litigation experience spans several areas of practice including construction, products, premises liability, personal injury, real estate, agency, professional responsibility, coverage, and alternative dispute resolution both representing parties and as a neutral, himself. He presents and publishes regularly in his areas of expertise.
Before law school, Brian worked in a wide range of positions and he trained as a community mediator and sat on the board of the Mediation Center in Orange County. This breadth of real-world experience comes to bear not only for his clients but also in mentoring.
Brian earned his undergraduate Philosophy degree, cum laude, at California State University, Fullerton and went on to Loyola Marymount University’s Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where he secured his JD in 1999. Brian migrated to Northern California in 2003, where he has chosen to remain. Following a five-year stint with a firm in Orange County that began while he was still in law school, and amid a dearth of litigation work in Southern California, a job opened up at a defense firm in Oakland. In just five years, he went from their newest associate to being the newest partner at that firm, where he stayed until coming to KNCH.
He has earned Martindale-Hubbell’s “AV Preeminent” peer rating for legal skill and integrity. In addition to serving as Assistant Managing Partner of his prior firm’s Concord / Bay Area office, Brian chaired the firm’s Construction Practice Group and served on the product liability, real estate, and appellate practice groups. Brian also chaired the nationwide Construction Liability Group for the Gavel, a national claims defense network, while he was with his prior firm.
Brian’s off hours are spent with his wife and two daughters and, when time permits, he is an avid fisherman, hunter, motorcycle rider, and Xbox gamer. Community services include coaching high school mock trial teams, as well as serving on the board of directors for the Concord Chamber of Commerce.
