Josh Branson

About Josh Branson

Partner at Kellogg Hansen who represents both plaintiffs and defendants in high-stakes civil litigation. Has served as lead counsel in trial and appellate courts across a wide range of contentious disputes worth billions of dollars. Focuses in particular on copyright and DMCA, antitrust, telecommunications, terrorism-financing, and corporate/shareholder litigation. Full professional biography here: https://kellogghansen.com/attorneys/joshua-d-branson/

Experience

1. Partner

   Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick PLLC

   Jan 2017 — Present · Washington, DC, US

   Josh Branson is a partner at Kellogg, Hansen who regularly serves as lead counsel in high-stakes trial, appellate, and regulatory matters. His first-chair experience includes copyright and DMCA litigation; antitrust matters; civil terrorism-funding lawsuits; shareholder and investor disputes; commercial contract cases; federal-preemption litigation; and telecommunications matters. He also has significant experience in bankruptcy, securities and foreign exchange, and defamation litigation. Mr. Branson has tried multiple cases to judgment, including a nearly billion-dollar interstate-water dispute in the U.S. Supreme Court; was lead counsel in a multi-billion-dollar copyright dispute that settled on the eve of trial; and has successfully argued both sides of dispositive motions on an array of cutting-edge issues.At the appellate level, Mr. Branson is undefeated in the six U.S. Court of Appeals cases in which he was primary counsel. He also has drafted many additional briefs – including merits, certiorari, and amicus briefs – in the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Courts of Appeals. Those appellate representations spanned a range of topics, including international-comity abstention, terrorism, antitrust, bankruptcy, telecommunications, and ERISA. Further, he has advised multiple litigation funders and represented clients in antitrust and other proceedings before the Department of Justice and Federal Communications Commission.Mr. Branson has been quoted discussing his cases in several national media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Reuters, and Bloomberg. In 2022, the American Lawyer named him the national Litigator of the Week for his D.C. Circuit appellate victory in Atchley v. AstraZeneca, No. 20-2077 (D.C. Cir. Jan. Since 2022, he has been named among the Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America.

Education

• Harvard Law School

  Juris Doctor, Law

  2007 — 2010

• Northwestern University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Communication Studies

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Civil Litigation
• Legal Writing