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

He also has an “AV” rating from Martindale-Hubbell and is a Ranked Attorney in Chambers USA.

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
• Railroad and Mass Transportation

Awards and Honors

• Recommended by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Litigation: General Commercial, 2005-2009
• Named as an Alaskan “Super Lawyer” in Law and Politics magazine, 2007

Professional and Community Activities

• The International Association of Defense Counsel
• The Maritime Law Association of the United States
• American Bar Association, Torts and Insurance Practice Section