Justin Browne

Justin Browne, Esq

Senior Partner (Licensed in MD)

Mr. Browne is a partner at Ketterer Browne and Anderson (KBA). He is passionate about litigating cases to aggressively uncover evidence, exclude opposing experts, and develop well-founded, trial-ready cases backed by sound evidence and innovative strategies and technology.

He handles an array of cases but has focused primarily on mass tort (medical devices and other products), catastrophic injuries (including brain and spinal cord injuries), and class action cases. He has diverse experience in complex matters, including within consolidated actions in state and federal courts nationally. In short, if you have been taken advantage of or seriously injured, he is interested in speaking with you to have the privilege of fighting on your behalf.

Mr. Browne’s experience spans the entire spectrum from meeting with clients through trial work and appeals. He enjoys being part of litigation strategy planning and implementation, and is invited by other lawyers to develop their cases and consulted on litigation and trial strategy. As part of litigation teams, particularly within multidistrict litigations (MDLs) or state court consolidations, he is often charged with obtaining and responding to discovery, taking high-level depositions including of Rule 30(b)(6) corporate witnesses, corporate officers, and experts, and identifying and developing experts to support plaintiffs’ cases, while cross-examining opponents’ experts. He has repeatedly moved to exclude defense experts and successfully argued these matters before judges in several venues in state and federal court. Mr. Browne employs his experience on the defense side to deconstruct affirmative defenses and has successfully moved to exclude defenses from trial as well.

He often argues motions in court, including Daubert and dispositive motions in federal and state courts, motions in limine, and has been on trial teams through verdicts, including a $35,940,756 jury trial verdict, and post-verdict motions and an appeal. He has successfully negotiated several substantial recoveries securing tens of millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for his clients.1

Mr. Browne has litigated cases across the country on a pro hac vice basis and been part of several trial teams, most recently second-chairing the first bellwether trial in a mass tort litigation involving thousands of individuals and complex interrelated regulatory and scientific issues. He has also served on committees within and been a member of Plaintiffs Steering Committees, most recently for the medical device Essure litigation consolidated in California state court. Mr. Browne was a leader in the pain pump and GranuFlo litigations, including leading committees on and working within the Plaintiff’s Steering Committee. His mass tort consolidation and MDL litigation experience include:

Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee, In Re Essure Product Cases, JCCP No. 4887
Co-Lead Of The PSC Warnings Subcommittee, Member, Experts, Oversight, And Regulatory Subcommittees, In Re Fresenius GranuFlo/Naturalyte Dialysate Prods. Liab. Lit. (D. Mass. And Mass. Super. Ct.)
Maryland Liaison, In Re: New England Compounding Pharmacy Inc. Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 2419 (D. Mass.)
Local Counsel, In Re: J&J Talcum Powder Prods. Marketing, Sales Practices & Prods. Liab. Lit., MDL No. 2738
In Re Consolidated Steroid Injection Litigation Matters (Balt. Co. Cir. Ct.)
In Re Harford County Ambulatory Surgery Center LLC (Harf. Co. Cir. Ct.)
In Re Box Hill (Harf. Co. Cir. Ct.)
In Re Infusion Pump Cases, JCCP 4615

Mr. Browne founded KBA after working for nearly a decade at a prominent Baltimore-based firm where he rose the ranks from a contract attorney to become a partner. He also worked at defense firms in the Baltimore area in products liability, employment, commercial, and business litigation, while supporting a partner serving as in-house counsel for several businesses.

He previously interned with a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland and with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He also worked for a non-profit organization doing appellate and administrative law work. Before graduating cum laude from the University of Maryland School of Law, Mr. Browne worked in the pharmaceutical and medical device industry, in clinical research, and other healthcare related capacities.

Mr. Browne is AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated for personal injury, mass torts, and products liability. The National Trial Lawyers Organization selected Mr. Browne for its Top 40 under 40 in Maryland list beginning in 2014 and up until he was 40, which we won’t tell him has now passed. He has been selected as a “Super Lawyer” Rising Star every year since 2012, which does not involve cases but is a recognition bestowed through a multiphase selection process resulting in no more than 2.5 percent of attorneys being named to the list.2 He has also won several awards and been recognized academically and for his community service.

Mr. Browne provides clients with candid assessments and advice and is frequently called upon to help other attorneys prepare their cases and to mentor developing law students and attorneys. He has published several articles and has spoken at conferences on substantive and strategic legal matters.

Mathias v. Shoemaker, No. 15-2261, 2017 WL 3592457 (D. Md. Aug. 21, 2017)
Staub v. Breg, Inc., No. CV 10–02038, 2012 WL 1078335 (D. Ariz. Mar. 30, 2012)
Musgrave v. Breg, Inc., No. 2:09-CV-01029, 2011 WL 3876529 ((S.D. Ohio Sept. 2, 2011)
Musgrave v. Breg, Inc., 2:09-CV-01029, 2011 WL 4502032 (S.D. Ohio Sept. 28, 2011)
James v. Stryker Corp., 1:10-CV-2082, 2011 WL 292240 (M.D. Pa. Jan. 27, 2011)

Justin Browne, Hernia Mesh, Mass Torts Made Perfect (Oct. 2017)
Justin Browne, Ten Opportunities For Making Discovery Work For You, MAJ Trial Reporter (Spring 2017)
Justin Browne, Hernia Mesh, Harris Martin (June 2017)
Justin Browne, Hernia Mesh, AAJ (May 2017)
Justin Browne, “Regulatory Experts:” Five Tips For Avoiding Pitfalls, 53 Trial 46 (July 2017)
Justin Browne, The Changing Paradigm Of Mass Torts, Mass Torts Made Perfect (Apr. 2017)
Justin Browne, Design Controls, Mass Torts Made Perfect (April 2015)
Justin Browne, Unearth Design Controls Evidence, 50 Trial 14 (Aug. 2014)
Justin Browne, Getting GranuFlo Case File Ready (Mar. 2013)
Justin Browne, Regulatory Experts: Avoiding Landmines To Prevent Exclusion While Going On The Offensive (July 2012)
Justin Browne, Switch Sales Rep Testimony To Your Advantage, 48 Trial 36 (Nov. 2012)
Justin Browne, Expert Challenges: Protecting Yours, Attacking Theirs, MAJ (Feb. 2012)
Justin Browne, The Case Against Breg, AAJ (July 2012)
Justin Browne, Consumer-Related Threats Facing Maryland Military Personnel & How The Legal Community Can Respond, Md. Bar Bulletin (2009).
Susan Leviton & Justin Browne, Students Schooling Students: Gaining Professional Benefits While Helping Urban High School Students Achieve Success, 38 J. Law & Educ. 359 (July 2009).
S. Leviton & J. Browne, Preventing Schools From Becoming The Pipeline To Prison, 42 Md. Bar. Jn. 42 (2009).
Justin Browne, Ensuring Accessibility Of Combination Products, 9 Reg. Aff. Focus 22 (2004).
Justin Browne, Seizure-Alert Dogs: The Saving Sense Of Smell, 14 J. Psychol. & Behav. Sci. 41 (2000).

AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
Maryland Super Lawyers Rising Star 2012-2018
National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40
Spotlight On Lawyers Award Recipient, Maryland State Bar Association
Award Recipient, Homeless Persons Representation Project

Founder & Former Co-Chair, Military Law And Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Maryland State Bar Association
Law Student Volunteer, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, LA
Former Board Member, University Of Maryland School Of Law Alumni Association
Founder & Co-Chair, Military Law And Veterans’ Affairs Committee, Maryland State Bar Association
Law Student Volunteer, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, LA
Student Volunteer, Community Leadership In Public Service Program And Maryland Katrina And Indigent Defense Project, Habitat For Humanity Projects

1. Each case is different and past results are not predictors of future results. No one should have any expectation about the outcome of their matter based on representations herein.
2. The following are examples of recent successes on which Mr. Browne has worked directly. The facts and law discussed are summaries of some of the highlights and do not include everything involved in each case. Each case is distinct; therefore, no one should form any expectation based on these results. The firm and Mr. Browne note that anything on this page does not imply the same results can be replicated in any current or future matter.
3. SUPERLAWYERS: The Super Lawyers Rising Star list is issued by Thomson Reuters. A description of the selection methodology can be found at http://www.superlawyers.com/about/selection_process.html. No aspect of this listing has been approved by the Court of Appeals of Maryland.)

University Of Maryland School Of Law, J.D., (Cum Laude)
Fairleigh Dickinson University, B.A., (Magna Cum Laude)