Brendan Ashe focuses his practice on complex litigation in federal and state trial and appellate courts. Drawing on his previous work as a federal judicial law clerk, he has handled a wide range of substantive matters, including administrative law issues, antitrust litigation, class actions, constitutional litigation, False Claims Act investigations, trade secrets litigation, intellectual property litigation, and white collar criminal prosecutions. Brendan also has substantial experience in every procedural aspect of federal litigation from case inception through post-trial motion practice. In state court, he has represented clients in a range of commercial litigation at the trial level, while also authoring amicus and merits briefs at the appellate level in both civil and criminal proceedings. Outside of the courtroom, Brendan has counseled clients facing civil or criminal investigations by both federal and state agencies, and provided advice regarding the constantly shifting regulatory framework governing college athletics.
Before rejoining McCarter, Brendan clerked for United States District Judge Mark. G. Mastroianni of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. During law school, he served as an extern at the Wisconsin Department of Justice in the Special Litigation & Civil Appeals section where he performed research related to a wide variety of federal constitutional issues, assisted in preparation for oral arguments before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and drafted briefs filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. Brendan also worked on behalf of incarcerated individuals throughout Wisconsin while a clinical student with the Frank J. Remington Center at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He served as a member of the Wisconsin Moot Court Board, and was the Senior Managing Editor of the Wisconsin International Law Journal. Additionally, his comment—Quelling the Urge to Go Abroad in Search of Monsters to Destroy: Revising the Neutrality Act of 1794 to Meet the Twenty-First Century Challenge of Privatized Warfare— was published in the 39th edition of the Wisconsin International Law Journal.
