Brianna Ricque' Howard

Brianna has extensive experience managing complex, multi-party disputes, including product liability matters, multidistrict litigation, coordinated proceedings, class actions, and mass actions. Her practice encompasses claims involving product defects, failure to warn, consumer protection, false advertising, business torts, and other complex liability theories. She has represented retail, consumer products, pharmaceutical and technology companies in large-scale litigation and has experience navigating Judicial Council Coordination Proceedings and other coordinated proceedings involving mass claims. She also advises clients on regulatory matters and has guided companies through government investigations involving consumer products, pharmaceuticals, and product distribution. Brianna takes a strategic approach to complex litigation, using early case assessment, targeted motion practice, and efficient litigation strategies to position clients for favorable outcomes.

In addition to her product liability and complex litigation practice, Brianna represents companies in consumer and commercial disputes involving unfair competition, fraud, contract, data privacy, and related business claims. Her experience includes defending Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions in class actions and other significant disputes, as well as managing mass arbitration proceedings arising from privacy claims. She has secured dismissals of consumer privacy, contract, and fraud claims and negotiated favorable resolutions in complex commercial and consumer disputes.

Beyond her legal practice, Brianna is committed to her community and mentoring aspiring attorneys. She is an adjunct professor of legal research, writing and advocacy at the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, in Los Angeles. She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, served on the Council of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Litigation, and presently serves as Social Media Co-Chair for the Section. She mentors law students through the ABA's Judicial Internship Opportunity Program and is a member of the Langston Bar Association Corporate Firm Network Committee and the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Litigation and Data Privacy Committees.