Brady Edwards

Partner

Brady Edwards focuses his practice on the defense of serial and mass tort litigation, with a particular emphasis on designing and implementing coordinated national defense strategies for companies embroiled in asbestos litigation. Brady currently leads the national representations of more than 20 corporate asbestos defendants. As an integral part of his practice, Brady has also been at the forefront of designing creative alternative fee arrangements to provide clients with excellent service and predictable cost structures.

Extended Profile

In 2007, Brady opened the firm’s Houston office and served as its Managing Partner through 2014. During this time, the office grew from a four-lawyer litigation outpost to its current size of approximately 75 lawyers. From 2009 to 2015, Brady served as the firm wide operations partner for the litigation practice. From 2013 to 2018, Brady served as a member of the bipartisan Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee, which is responsible for screening and advising the Texas senators regarding nominees for vacancies on the federal bench and in US Attorney offices in Texas. Following graduation from law school, Brady served as a law clerk to Judge Richard A. Schell of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

selected representations

Member of trial team that successfully defended two of the presidential election contest trials as counsel for then-Governor George W. Bush and Secretary Richard Cheney. Jacobs v. Seminole County Canvassing Board, 773 So.2d 519 (Fla. 2000); Taylor v. Martin County Canvassing Board, 773 So.2d 517 (Fla. 2000).

Education

Baylor University Law School, 1995, J.D., Cum Laude
University of Texas, 1991, B.A.

Admissions

Texas
Arkansas
District of Columbia
Illinois
Missouri
New York
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Wyoming
US Supreme Court
US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
US District Court for the Northern District of Texas
US District Court for the Southern District of Texas
US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
US District Court for the Western District of Texas

Clerkships

Clerkship to Judge Richard Schell of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (1995 - 1996)

Awards and Affiliations

Sustaining Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation

Recommended, Industry focus: Insurance: advice to policyholders, The Legal 500 US (2023)

Recommended, Dispute resolution: Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort, The Legal 500 US (2021–2023)

Recommended, Dispute resolution – Product liability, mass tort and class action – automotive/transport, The Legal 500 US (2016, 2017)

Recognized, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions - Defendants, Houston, The Best Lawyers in America (2022–2024)

Member, Practice Group of the Year, Insurance, Law360 (2020)

Ranked, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2009–2014)

Recognized, Top 100 Houston Super Lawyers (2013)

Recognized, Texas Super Lawyers (2003–2018)

Recognized, "Professionals on the Fast Track," H-Texas Magazine (2005 & 2007)

Recognized, "Houston's Best Lawyers," H-Texas Magazine (2004)

Recognized, "Lawyers on the Fast Track," H-Texas Magazine (2004)

AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Managing Editor, Baylor Law Review