Brendan J. Begley

Brendan spearheads the Appeals and Writs group at Weintraub Tobin and is a member of his firm’s labor and employment, probate and trusts, and litigation groups.  He is an Appellate Law Specialist certified by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization and, along with Stephanie Finelli, is the co-chair of the Sacramento County Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Section.

Over the past two decades, Brendan has delivered numerous public presentations to lawyers, executives, managers, and supervisors on the topics of anti-SLAPP motions, appellate law, and best employment practices.  He is the principal contributing editor to The Rutter Group’s California Practice Guide on Employment Litigation.  He is admitted to the State Bar of California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

In litigation, Brendan has prevailed on numerous anti-SLAPP and other dispositive motions and saw two jury trials through to successful verdicts.  At the appellate stage, he has handled both briefing and oral argument before all manner of appellate courts.  The U.S. Supreme Court granted Brendan’s petition for a writ of certiorari that led to the high court hearing and resolving the “Pledge of Allegiance” case in Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow, 540 U.S. 945 (2003).

Brendan received his J.D. (with honors) from the University of California at Davis, where he was a law-review writer.  Prior to law school, Brendan worked as a newspaper reporter for The Sacramento Daily Recorder.  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 Honorable John M. Gerrard, then Associate Justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court, and later as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Connie M. Callahan, Circuit Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Brendan J. Begley
Attorney at Law
Appellate Law Specialist,certified by
The State Bar of California – Board of Legal Specialization