Educational and Professional Background
BS, Biology, Stanford University, with honors and
with distinction
MS, Biochemistry, Stanford University
JD, University of California, Berkeley
Robert Brain began his legal career in the litigation department of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he received a pro bono award from the LA County Bar Association for his work with Public Counsel, and represented the ACLU in a case before the US Supreme Court. He later joined the faculty at Pepperdine University School of Law where he taught contracts, torts, constitutional law, sales and trial practice. While at Pepperdine, he co-taught a course on the history of the Supreme Court with Chief Justice Rehnquist, tried cases on a volunteer basis for the LA District Attorney’s Office and served as a commercial arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. He later taught at McGeorge School of Law before becoming a partner at the litigation firm of Howarth & Smith where he tried fraud, defamation, securities, products liability and assault matters, representing clients like the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Suzuki Motor Corporation and the victims of 9/11. He joined the Loyola faculty in 2006.
Professional Memberships and Activities
R. Brain, Sum and Substance—Contracts (7th
ed., 2006).
Brain and Broderick, "The Secondary Relevance of Demonstrative Evidence:
Charting its Proper Evidentiary Status," 25 U.C.D. L. Rev. 957
(1992).
Brain and Broderick, "Computer Animations: How to Get them Admitted,"
2 Lit. App. 5 (Winter, 1991).
Brain and Broderick, "Demonstrative Evidence, Clarifying Its Role
at Trial," 1994 Trial 73 (September).
Brain, Freeberg, Weiss, and Briggs, "Blue Light-Induced Absorbance
Changes in Membrane Fractions from Corn and Neurospora,"
59 Plant Physiology 948 (1977).
Brain and Briggs, "Light-Induced Cytochrome Reduction in Neurospora
Crassa Membrane Fractions," in Research in Photobiology (A. Castellani ed. 1977).
Ethical Lawyering; Legal Writing.