Among Mr. White’s notable achievements include his representation of seven cyclists who suffered serious injuries on the Williamsburg Bridge bicycle and pedestrian path as a result of defectively designed metal expansion joint covers. His work not only resulted in his clients’ receiving proper compensation but also in prompting the City of New York to remove these hazards from the path’s Manhattan approach.

In another significant case, he won justice for the family of a young woman killed by a driver while bicycling, upon whom the NYPD had placed all the blame for the crash.  Mr. White obtained a jury verdict which found the driver in fact to be almost entirely at fault.  He also recovered from a major insurance carrier payment to an injured cyclist that was substantially beyond its insured’s policy limits, by invoking the rule against insurer “bad faith,” winning a jury verdict, and successfully defending it on appeal. That award was generally considered to set the high water mark for sustainable non-economic (pain and suffering) damages for a knee injury that did not require surgery.

In addition to representing seriously injured individuals, Mr. White is a daily bicycle commuter and long-time advocate for safe streets. He is a frequent guest speaker at cycling clubs and community groups briefing their memberships about everything from basic bike safety to the intricacies of New York Insurance law.  His firm also serves as a proud long-time sponsor and supporter of major New York cycling events such as the Transportation Alternatives Century Ride and the Five Borough Bicycle Club Montauk Century Ride, and other organizations and safe streets advocacy groups including Streetsblog.org and Streetsfilm.org., Recycle-A-Bicycle, and The League of American Bicyclists where he serves as a member of the Legal Affairs Committee.

Mr. White is a graduate of the Horace Mann School, Brandeis University (A.B. ’86) and The Benjamin Cardozo School of Law (J.D. ’90).

Mr. White is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the United States Supreme Court.

A native New Yorker, Brandon came to the firm through his safe streets advocacy. He is a fixture at community board meetings, rallies, and vigils demanding better conditions for pedestrians and cyclists. In 2015, Brandon formed the Department of Transformation, a tactical urbanism collective that installed guerrilla protected bike lanes on NYC streets. He is a long time member of the Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn Activist Committee and was honored as Transportation Alternatives’s 2023 Citywide Activist of the Year for his work tracking the city’s progress installing protected bike lanes as required by the NYC Streets Plan law. 

Prior to joining the firm, Brandon was a litigator with Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he worked on complex civil litigation and regulatory investigations and specialized in mass tort and consumer class actions with particular focus on automobile cases. Brandon began his legal career clerking for the federal district court for the Southern District of New York. 

Brandon maintains a robust pro bono practice. Past representations include bringing claims of public accommodation discrimination based on HIV status; enforcing wage and hour judgments for low income workers; and preparing immigration petitions for DACA recipients, clemency petitions for individuals serving harsh mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug offenses, and name change petitions for transgender individuals. Brandon was recognized with a Pro Bono Publico award from the Legal Aid Society in 2019.

Brandon is a graduate of the Dalton School, Northwestern University (B.S. ’10), and Emory University School of Law (J.D. with High Honors ’14).

Brandon is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.