Brent Murphy represents leading technology, media, and communications companies at the cutting edge of copyright law .

Brent helps the world’s most innovative organizations navigate their complex copyright law issues in product development, licensing, business planning, and prelitigation and regulatory strategy .

Brent represents clients at all stages of litigation, leveraging his appellate litigation experience — including at the Supreme Court of the United States — to devise winning strategies and draft compelling briefing to deliver for clients in their highest stakes matters .

Brent joined Latham after serving as a law clerk to then-Judge Amy Coney Barrett of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Judge Paul J. Kelly Jr. of the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.  He graduated summa cum laude from Notre Dame Law School, where he was editor in chief of the Notre Dame Law Review and received the Hoynes Prize, graduating first in his class.

Brent’s recent experience includes representing:

  • A leading online advertising platform in a copyright suit brought by academic textbook publishers related to ads for allegedly infringing books
  • A leading social media company in a copyright suit brought by a production music library for alleged use of music on social media platforms
  • Internet Archive in a copyright suit brought by record labels related to a historic preservation effort to digitize defunct 78 rpm format records of pre-1972 sound recordings
  • An online gaming platform in a suit to protect intellectual property rights in its copyrighted avatars against an unlicensed toy manufacturer

Brent also maintains an active pro bono practice, which regularly partners with groups including:

  • MacArthur Justice Center
  • The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  • The Texas Civil Rights Project
  • The National Organization of Veterans Advocates

Bar Qualification

  • District of Columbia

Education

  • JD, University of Notre Dame Law School, 2018
    summa cum laude
  • BA in Political Science, University of Notre Dame, 2015
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August 14, 2024 Recognition

Litigator of the (Past) Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Latham litigation team earned honors after securing affirmance of a summary judgment victory for The Home Depot in an Eleventh Circuit appeal implicating two significant issues of ERISA law.