Brian G. Maxey

With over two decades of experience in the public sector as a litigator, policing executive, consultant, and member of federal monitoring teams, Brian Maxey works at the intersection of risk management planning, crisis management support and strategic litigation to provide comprehensive services to public sector clients.

Representative Experience:

• Led a large municipal department through a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into alleged patterns of biased policing and unconstitutional use of force, followed by a multiyear implementation of court-supervised reforms under a federal consent decree
• Implemented a body-camera program for a major city police department, including extensive political and community engagement, policy and training development, contracting and bargaining
• Successfully defended a constitutional challenge to Seattle’s municipal residential rental inspection ordinance
• Served as lead counsel in an excessive force case tried to defense verdict for the City of Seattle in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
• Served as lead counsel in an excessive force and false arrest case for the City of Seattle tried to partial defense verdict, with the remaining claim resulting in nominal damages of $1
• Served as lead counsel in an excessive force, false arrest and false prosecution case tried to defense verdict for a city in New York in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
• Served as lead counsel in an excessive force, false arrest and false prosecution case tried to defense verdict for New York City in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• Tried an Eighth Amendment Section 1983 case to defense verdict for the Washington State Department of Corrections