BIOGRAPHY
Brian Dolan is an associate with the firm’s New York office. Mr. Dolan has several years of litigation experience ranging from criminal post-conviction and appellate matters to civil and commercial matters. His experience spans various phases of litigation and includes preparing pleadings, discovery requests and responses (such as document requests and interrogatories), affirmations and affidavits, memoranda of law in connection with dispositive and non-dispositive motions, and appellate briefs. Mr. Dolan is a diligent advocate who is committed to achieving exceptional and efficient results for JLG’s clients.
Practice Highlights:
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Represented a midstream energy company in a breach of contract action to recover the unpaid purchase price of shares the company had issued.
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Represented a UK-based law firm in a series of related applications under 28 U.S.C. Section 1782 to obtain discovery for use in foreign proceedings pending before the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.
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Represented a private equity firm and its affiliates and subsidiaries in an action against an automobile dealership owner and operator in an action involving claims of breach of contract, conversion, breach of fiduciary duty, and specific performance and related appeals.
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Represented an individual businessman in a series of related corporate dissolution and breach of contract actions involving a group of family-owned construction and real estate companies.
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Defended an independent jeweler against claims by an internationally recognized luxury jewelry company for breach of contract, replevin, conversion, trespass to chattels, breach of bailment, breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, and successfully obtained on appeal a reversal of the trial court’s ruling striking his client’s answer and counterclaims as a sanction for spoliation of evidence.
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Represented an individual employee in an action against his employer, a medical equipment manufacturer, for breach of contract.
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Defended an employer in an unpaid wage dispute and achieved a favorable outcome for client through mediation.
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Represented a criminal defendant on appeal to the Appellate Division, Second Department following a guilty verdict on charges of attempted assault in the first degree, assault in the second degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree.
Prior to joining JLG, Mr. Dolan was a motions and appeals attorney at Slater Slater Schulman LLP, where he litigated cases arising under the Child Victims’ Act. Before that, he was an associate attorney at Rosenfeld & Kaplan LLP, where he worked on a diverse array of civil and commercial litigation matters involving, for example, claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and specific performance. Prior to his time at Rosenfeld & Kaplan LLP, he was an associate attorney at Portale Randazzo LLP, where he handled criminal post-conviction and appellate matters, including motions to vacate judgment pursuant to CPL 440.10 and criminal appeals. Before that, Mr. Dolan began his legal career as a judicial law clerk to Justice Thomas E. Humphrey at the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in Portland, Maine.
CREDENTIALS
Brian earned his undergraduate degree in Psychology at SUNY Geneseo. While at Geneseo, he researched and wrote a paper on the phenomenon of false confessions and was exposed to other issues at the intersection of psychology and law, including the unreliability of eyewitness identifications and the insanity defense. He then went on to earn his Juris Doctor from St. John’s University School of Law. During law school, he served as a Research Assistant to Professors Kate Levine and Anna Roberts and as a Teaching Assistant for a first-year section of Legal Writing I & II. He was also a Fellow of the Center for Trial and Appellate Advocacy, where he authored blog posts concerning pertinent New York appellate court decisions in the areas of New York criminal law and procedure. He completed internships at the Appellate Division, Second Department, Brooklyn Defender Services (through St. John’s University School of Law’s Criminal Defense Clinic), and the Legal Aid Society. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York and in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
PUBLICATIONS
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To Knock or Not to Knock? No-Knock Warrants and Confrontational Policing, 93 ST. JOHN’S L. REV. 201 (2019).
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Ramos v. Louisiana: Does the Fourteenth Amendment Fully Incorporate the Sixth Amendment Guarantee of A Unanimous Jury Verdict?, CLAREMONT J. L. & PUB. POL’Y, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Fall 2019).
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In addition to his publications, Mr. Dolan has been credited for his research assistance in the following articles: Anna Roberts, Convictions as Guilt, 88 FORDHAM L. REV. 2501 (2020); Anna Roberts, Arrests as Guilt, 70 ALA L. REV. 987 (2019); Kate Levine, Discipline and Policing, 68 DUKE L.J. 839 (2019); Kate Levine & Stephen Rushin, Interrogation Parity, 2018 U. ILL. L. REV. 1685 (2018).