South Carolina

J. Brandon Walker
Associate Attorney

Brandon Walker practices with the Motley Rice securities litigation team, representing public pension funds, unions and other institutional investors in securities fraud class actions and shareholder derivative suits. Brandon develops and analyzes new cases for Motley Rice’s institutional investor clients and the motions and discovery practice following the initiation of a securities or derivative lawsuit.

Prior to attending law school, Brandon managed litigation support for high-profile securities fraud class action cases as a paralegal at two large plaintiffs’ firms in New York. In this role, he researched and analyzed SEC regulatory findings, coordinated document review and prepared complaints and pleadings in all phases of litigation for cases involving WorldCom, Enron, HealthSouth, Bristol-Myers and other large corporations. His initial exposure to the legal field and work with class action litigation was as a legal assistant, and during law school as a volunteer, on In re: Holocaust Victim Assets Litigation, a suit against Germany, Austria, and two Swiss banks by more than 4,000 Holocaust survivors.

Brandon joined Motley Rice after earning a Juris Doctor and a Master of Business Administration from Wake Forest University. As a law student, Brandon was a research assistant, conducting extensive research on the mutual fund industry with an emphasis on corporate governance and conflicts of interest. He served as a law clerk for the Honorable Carl Horn, III, of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina in 2005 and as a law clerk for Motley Rice in 2007.