Brian Center specializes in employment and business litigation and manages the business law practice at his firm, Huskinson, Brown & Heidenreich, LLP.
As a skilled litigator, he has a wealth of experience successfully handling complex cases involving disputes related to business contracts, partnerships, employment, defamation, trademark, and trade secret law. A large portion of his current practice revolves around employment counseling, investigations and defending corporations against wage and hour, discrimination, retaliation, PAGA and class action lawsuits. Mr. Center also takes on a limited number of plaintiff’s cases.
Mr. Center’s 25 years of diverse experience helps make him an excellent counselor to guide clients through conflict and decision-making. This experience includes:
- Assessing the value of hundreds of cases for Los Angeles County to help ensure that litigation was in the client’s best interests. Through this work, he developed a keen ability to determine the strengths and weaknesses of cases, what litigation should cost, and whether a team is staffed to win.
- Overseeing the implementation of sexual harassment training for the County’s 90,000 employees, and the improvement of investigative processes.
- Serving as the CEO of a non-profit, so that he understands the challenges of running a business and managing people.
- Spending hundreds of hours in mediation training, mediating disputes, and participating in informal gang mediations. As a result, Mr. Center is gifted in conflict resolution and brings great value to clients by helping them navigate the decision of whether to litigate or settle a dispute out of court.
- Successfully handling high stakes disputes through all phases of litigation, including through the appellate process.
Over the past 20 years, Mr. Center has been active in a broad array of community activities. To name a few, he has served as Judge Pro Tem for the Los Angeles County Superior Court and a member of the Mediation Panel for the U.S. District Court, Central District. Also, he is often called upon for advice related to constitutional policing reforms instituted by the Department of Justice. He is a graduate of UCLA Law School.