Brian C. Newberry

Brian C. Newberry

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Member Since 2023

Free

2023

Brian C. Newberry

Lewis Brisbois
Partner

Commercial Law

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Brian C. Newberry is a trial attorney specializing in litigation for architects, engineers, and other design professionals.

Professional Biography

Brian Newberry is a partner in the Providence office of Lewis Brisbois. Mr. Newberry specializes in commercial and financial services litigation, construction litigation, and professional practices, representing primarily architects, engineers, accountants, and lawyers, in addition to general insurance defense. He has extensive trial and appellate experience in both state and federal court in multiple jurisdictions.

Career Highlights

  • Represented winning plaintiff in breach of contract action labeled one of the five most significant verdicts of the year for 2002 by Rhode Island Lawyer’s Weekly.
  • Lead counsel for plaintiff in a business dispute resulting in second-highest jury verdict of the year in Rhode Island in 2003.
  • In 2019, obtained a jury verdict on behalf of an architect accused of causing a $4 million fire.
  • Secured a directed verdict in 2015 on behalf of an architect, a geotechnical engineer, and an owner’s representative in a construction property damage claim after a three-and-a-half-week jury trial.
  • Represented a geotechnical engineer and an owner’s representative in 2014 in a two-week jury trial resulting in a defense verdict.
  • Represented a military contractor and obtained a defense verdict in 2013 in a two-week jury trial in federal court in a tortious interference and business defamation claim brought by a competitor.
  • Has obtained defense verdicts in multiple tort actions brought against design professionals in a variety of architectural and engineering disciplines.
  • Co-lead counsel in 2002 in an American Arbitration Association arbitration in which client, a private business firm, achieved a $5 million award for fraud against a former computer vendor.
  • Has tried numerous cases in multiple states and a variety of forums, and argued multiple appeals before the Supreme Courts of Rhode Island and Delaware, the Appeals Court of Massachusetts, and the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

Admissions

  • State Bar Admissions
    • Connecticut
    • Massachusetts
    • Rhode Island
  • United States District Courts
    • United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts
    • United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island
  • United States Courts of Appeals
    • United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
    • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
  • Other Admissions
    • United States Tax Court

Association

  • American Arbitration Association (2018–Present)
    • Member – Commercial, Construction, and Consumer Arbitration Panels
  • Rhode Island State Representative, District 48 (North Smithfield / Burrillville), 2009–Present; House Minority Leader, 2011–2017

Education

Temple University School of Law
Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 1996

University of Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Arts in American History/Urban Studies, 1993

Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut
1989

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About Lewis Brisbois

Lewis Brisbois offers legal practice in more than 40 specialties, and a multitude of sub-specialties. Our attorneys have broad knowledge, experience, and sensitivity to our clients’ unique needs. Through interaction among our practice groups, Lewis Brisbois provides a wide range of legal services to each client with a continuity of representation across multiple disciplines. We have built longstanding relationships with corporate and institutional clients based on our ability to provide comprehensive service on a national scale.

At Lewis Brisbois, diversity is an integral part of our firm culture and our daily life. When we opened our doors over 40 years ago, we knew that one of our top priorities was to hire the best attorneys, staff, administrators, assistants, and clerks in every city where we opened an office. This core principle of our firm’s culture has resulted in our unique and valued diversity. We are proud to have a highly diverse firm comprising more than 3,000 people across the nation. The success of this approach is reflected in the fact that Lewis Brisbois has repeatedly received national recognition for its commitment to embracing diversity. Lewis Brisbois is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse group of talented lawyers and staff, and demonstrates that commitment through non-discriminatory hiring, retention, and promotion policies. The diversity of Lewis Brisbois’ client base is matched by the diversity of our attorneys and staff.

With offices from Los Angeles to New York and Seattle to Miami, our attorneys reflect the communities in which they live. Lewis Brisbois’ culture has fostered a diverse group of professionals committed to promoting the best interests of our clients, our communities, and the legal profession. We support diversity in communities across the nation through new and ongoing relationships with minority- and women-owned businesses.

Lewis Brisbois is known for its commitment to principled advocacy, an unflinching work ethic, and unyielding recognition of our duty to provide the highest level of service to our clients, who choose us because we take the time to understand their business interests and internal culture. We have developed sophisticated risk evaluation and litigation management processes that many of our clients have incorporated into their business practices, and we help them manage and defend claims and litigation. As a result, they are avoiding and reducing losses that impact their bottom line.

Our practice includes pre-suit counseling and problem solving based on a structured and accurate analysis of likely outcomes. We know our clients’ objectives are often best served by a pre-suit resolution, and we are often judged by the advice and counsel we provide toward that end. However, when trial is the answer and in the client’s best interest, Lewis Brisbois brings to bear the full force of our tenacious and sophisticated litigation prowess, utilizing our nationwide network of attorneys and support staff as well as our considerable technological resources.

Lewis Brisbois aspires to provide high-quality legal services and innovative solutions for our clients while maintaining a respectful and collegial culture of excellence, diversity, and fairness within the firm by:

  • providing excellent service to our clients through our commitment to ethical advocacy and hard work;
  • delivering skilled legal services in a cost-efficient manner;
  • managing, guiding, and supporting the professional growth of our attorneys, paralegals, and staff;
  • retaining a diverse group of talented lawyers and staff who reflect the diversity of our communities;
  • cultivating a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion by protecting, promoting, and celebrating diverse professionals and employees throughout the firm; and
  • building and maintaining longstanding relationships with clients across the country and around the world.

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