Brayton Purcell

Brayton Purcell, LLP (also known as Brayton Law) is a law firm based in Novato, California. The firm has over 50 attorneys and numerous support staff. The majority of the firm's cases involve personal injury, and 75% of all cases are asbestos related.

History

In 1983, founding partner Alan Brayton established the firm until in 1995, senior partner and lead trial counsel Gilbert Purcell, joined to name the partnership Brayton Purcell.

In 2007, an Ohio judge found that the law firm "lied to the court, submitted fraudulent asbestos claim forms and broke other rules" in an asbestos-related case. As a result, the firm was barred from participating in the rest of the case.

Partners

Alan R. Brayton

Alan Brayton, Founding and Senior Partner, was born in 1949 in Sacramento, CA. He graduated from Shasta High School in Redding, CA before attending the U.S. Air Force. Commissioned as a second lieutenant upon graduation, he spent the next 12 years on ACTIVE duty while serving a variety of jobs both in the US and overseas, including seven years as a Judge Advocate. After leaving the Air Force, he received his J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976. He has had twenty-eight years of experience representing clients in all types of personal injury, products liability and mass tort litigation. He is a known specialist in bankruptcy trust cases. Early in his career, he won the first asbestos cases ever tried in the San Francisco Superior Court, and tried the first asbestos case in Solano County. Currently, he continues to serve on the Board of Governors for Consumer Attorneys of California. He also testifies before Congress on behalf of asbestos victims regarding industry regulations on asbestos. Apart from law, he owns Paradise View Vineyard in southern Sonoma County.

Gilbert L. Purcell

Gilbert Purcell, Senior Trial Partner, was born in 1957 in Amarillo, TX. He attended Pembroke College, studying International Economics and Courts before earning a B.A. at University California of Los Angeles. He then studied law and received his J.D. at Pepperdine University School ofLaw. Purcell was a clerk for trial lawyers, Girardi & Keese, in Los Angeles and also a founding member of a mid-sized plaintiffs firm with trial lawyers Federico Sayre and Raymond Boucher. In 1986, he successfully tried his first asbestos case before the California Supreme Court. Later onn, he built his private law practice focusing on cases that involved mesothelioma, battling against tobacco companies, and trying malpractice lawsuits. In 2002, Among his mesothelioma, asbestos lung cancer and asbestosis trials, Purcell tried the firstasbestos-related non-Hodgkin's lymphoma cases in Washington and Oregon He also has taken cases involving secondary asbestos exposure. Currently, he serves on the board of directors of the Consumer Attorneys of California. He is rated "AV Preeminent" by Martindale-Hubbell, and has also been selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer annually since 2004.