Brandon Thomas

Brandon Thomas is a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C., office of Munger, Tolles & Olson. 

Brandon joined the firm after serving as a law clerk for Justice Elena Kagan of the U.S. Supreme Court. He previously clerked for Paul J. Watford of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Paul A. Engelmayer of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. 

Between clerkships, Brandon practiced at a leading litigation firm, where he represented clients in intellectual property, complex commercial, securities and antitrust cases, both in open court and private arbitration. His practice has spanned all stages of litigation, from leading discovery efforts and examining witnesses at trial, to authoring dispositive briefs and defending victories on appeal.  

Brandon earned his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he received the Harlan Fiske Stone Prize and John Currier Gallagher Prize for top performances in the school’s moot court and trial advocacy competitions. Brandon also served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal, a Coker Fellow in Contracts and co-president of the Trial Advocacy Team. His academic work has been published in the Harvard Law Review Forum.   

Before becoming a lawyer, Brandon graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley and worked in regulatory compliance at a bulge bracket bank.