Randall A. Brater

Practice Areas

Randy Brater is a partner in the commercial and intellectual property litigation groups at Arent Fox. He has experience defending and pursuing civil actions in numerous areas including a variety of tort and contract actions, environmental actions under CERCLA, trademark infringement, insurance disputes, claims under the False Claims Act and trade secret actions. Randy has assisted in and been responsible for all facets of litigation in both state and federal courts from preliminary injunctions to motions practice to jury and bench trials, as well as arbitrations and mediation.

Randy is also an active participant in firm activities. He is a member of the firm’s Employment Committee that is responsible for the hiring of summer associates, oversight of the firm’s summer program and hiring of new associates. Randy is also a member of the firm’s Strategic Technology Committee that is committed to the development and streamlining of new technologies to better serve the firm’s clients.

Client Work

Most recently, Randy was part of the litigation team that defended a trademark infringement and dilution action on behalf of a major media and entertainment company in a jury trial. The case settled on favorable terms to the client, but not before partial dismissal of the action at both the motion to dismiss and summary judgment phases.

Other significant matters in which Randy recently participated include:

• Representation of a sovereign nation in a breach of contract action, prevailing on a Motion to Dismiss
• Representation of a professional sports franchise in the arbitration of an insurance dispute
• Part of the trial team that litigated a contract counterclaim in a bench trial
• A CERCLA claim at summary judgment, including a determination that the client was an innocent landowner under the statute

Randy is also committed to pro bono activities. He is currently the coordinator of the Arent Fox attorneys that perform intake at the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia and has performed intake at Legal Aid since 2002.

Previous Work

Randy joined the firm in 2001 after working at a law firm in Los Angeles.

Publications, Presentations and Recognitions

“The Civil False Claims Act: A Primer for Career and Other Proprietary Colleges,” Arent Fox webinar; November 2008

Bar and Court Admissions

California Bar
District of Columbia Bar
US Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
US Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
US Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
US District Court, Northern District of California
US District Court, District of Columbia
US District Court, District of Maryland

Education

Vanderbilt University, JD, 2000
Cornell University, BA (with distinction in all subjects), 1997