Brian J. Lamoureux is a Partner with Pannone Lopes Devereaux & West LLC and a member of the Employment, Litigation and Corporate Business Teams. His extensive practice areas include complex commercial litigation, employment law, social media law and creditors’ rights. In addition to being an accomplished business litigator, he has rapidly developed into a nationally-recognized voice on cutting-edge legal issues relating to social media. He is a frequent presenter, published author and broadcast commentator on the topics of social media and e-communications in the workplace. He has appeared on NBC10 several times and has presented to Fortune 100+ executives and hundreds of other business leaders, employers, and human resource professionals on social media and workplace issues. His recent newspaper columns include Privacy Rights Being Tested in the Digital Age, Digital Age Hiring Process Filled With Danger, Texting in the Workplace? Dangers Abound, Email Privacy Not a Guarantee in Workplace and Worry About Workplace Prejudice? Clean Up. Mr. Lamoureux's work has also been published in Rhode Island Lawyers Weekly.
He successfully briefed and argued before the First Circuit Court of Appeals in a case regarding a surety's rights to indemnification. He was lead counsel in a successfully resolved certified class action regarding the demutualization of an insurance company before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Rhode Island, and served as trial co-counsel in one of the largest defense jury verdicts in the Federal District Court in Massachusetts.
Mr. Lamoureux has been honored for his achievements by the Providence Business News and was selected as a member of its 2011 40 Under Forty Class.
He earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Syracuse University College of Law, where he was a member of the Syracuse Law Review and Moot Court Honor Society. At the same time, he received a Master of Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He also holds a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Rhode Island, where he was a teaching assistant in American Government and International Relations, and a B.A. in Political Science, cum laude, from Providence College.
Prior to joining PLDW, Mr. Lamoureux was a litigation partner in a 200-attorney AMLaw 200 firm. He is admitted to practice in state and federal courts in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and is qualified to serve as a receiver in Rhode Island Superior Court. Mr. Lamoureux is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.
