Attorneys

Brewster H. Jamieson

Shareholder | Anchorage | 907.264.3325 | jamiesonb@lanepowell.com

Areas of Practice

Brewster Jamieson represents a widely diverse clientele in both state and federal courts, including:

  • Representation of corporations, partnerships, and LLCs in commercial disputes
  • Product liability defense, including representation of manufacturers of heavy equipment, consumer products, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals
  • Insurance litigation, including coverage and defense of bad faith lawsuits
  • ERISA litigation, including cases establishing ERISA plans, claims for benefits under ERISA plans, class action suits brought by ERISA plan members
  • Maritime litigation, including defense of vessel owners against personal injury, collision, administrative, and pollution claims
  • Employment litigation, including defense of employers against wrongful termination, whistleblower, discrimination and defamation claims
  • Professional liability defense, including defense of physicians, dentists, attorneys, accountants, real estate licensees and other professionals against malpractice claims

Professional Experience

  • Law Clerk, Alaska Supreme Court (1984-1985)

Admitted to Practice

  • Alaska
  • Washington

Academics

  • Willamette University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1984; B.S., 1980)

Practice Group and Specialty Team Memberships

  • Admiralty and Maritime
  • ERISA Litigation
  • Insurance
  • London
  • Native American Affairs
  • Petroleum Industry
  • Railroad and Mass Transportation

Publications

  • “Mystery Solved — Recent Amendments to District Court Local Rule 56.1,” The Alaska Bar Rag newspaper (September 2011)
  • “Irrepressible Alaskans’ Court Swing Vote at 9th Conference,” The Alaska Bar Rag newspaper (September 2011)
  • “Law Firm Makes Critical Legal Connection,” The Alaska-Washington Connection magazine, Quoted (2011)

Awards and Honors

  • Recommended by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Litigation: General Commercial (2005-2011)
  • Named as an Alaska “Super Lawyer,” Law and Politics, General Litigation, Energy and Natural Resources, Transportation/Maritime (2007, 2009)
  • Peer Review Rated “AV” in Martindale-Hubbell

Professional and Community Activities

  • Fellow, American Bar Foundation (2011-Present)
  • Lawyer Representative, Ninth Circuit for the United States District Court for the District of Alaska
  • Law Clerk, Alaska Supreme Court (1984-1985)
  • The International Association of Defense Counsel
  • The Maritime Law Association of the United States
  • American Bar Association, Torts and Insurance Practice Section