Orran L. Brown

Partner

Direct Dial: 804.521.7201
Email: obrown@browngreer.com

Education & Honors

• Harvard Law School J. D. cum laude, 1981
• Hampden-Sydney College B. A. summa cum laude, Government and Foreign Affairs, 1978 (Phi Beta Kappa; Omicron Delta Kappa)
• Law Clerk to the Hon. Robert R. Merhige, Jr. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
• Tied for the highest score on the 2/83 Texas bar examination

Professional Activities

• Adjunct Professor, University of Richmond School of Law 1997-2005 [Taught trial and appellate practice, an upper-level course on mass torts, MDL class actions, and complex litigation]

Bar Admissions

• Virginia
• Texas

Orran advises management, trustees, and claims administrators on strategies for the successful resolution of multiple claims, the negotiation and drafting of resolution plans, legal proceedings to obtain court approval, the efficient design and operation of group claims facilities, and compliance with the agreements and court orders governing the claims resolution process. He also serves as a Special Master presiding over coordinated multidistrict proceedings and has served as a trustee directing the implementation of a settlement. He and Lynn Greer founded BrownGreer in September 2002.

Orran is Liaison Counsel for Wyeth to the over $4 billion diet drug settlement trust in Philadelphia. He was outside counsel to three Dalkon Shield trust funds from start to finish. The federal MDL transferee court in the multidistrict litigation against AstraZeneca over its antipsychotic drug Seroquel appointed Orran as the Special Master for all case-specific discovery. He served as the Trustee of a $200 million trust to be created out of litigation arising out of a certain federal employee wage claims in the United States Court of Federal Claims. He directs the administration of a state-wide Oxycontin class action settlement in South Carolina.

Orran began his practice in Houston, Texas, first with Liddell, Sapp, Zively, Brown & LaBoon and then with Miller, Keeton, Bristow & Brown after the Litigation Chairman of Liddell, Sapp moved to that firm. There, he handled general litigation matters, including the Pennzoil v. Texaco suit arising from Texaco’s acquisition of Getty Oil. He returned to Richmond in 1986, where he was a partner in Christian & Barton, a Richmond firm, until 1995. At both firms, he handled securities fraud class actions, employment, products liability, and commercial litigation in state and federal courts in Virginia and elsewhere. He served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association for securities fraud and construction cases.

In 1999, he joined the Richmond office of Bowman & Brooke, LLP. Until September 2002, he was Co-Managing Partner of the Richmond office, a member of Bowman & Brooke's Management Committee, and director of the firm's Mass Claims Resolution Group, which he founded.

Orran has written and spoken many times on medical monitoring and other mass claim topics.

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