Mr. Brannan is a native Atlantan.  His practice is focused on the representation of investors in matters involving breach of duty, fraud, mismanagement, unsuitable investments and advice, and other broker misconduct.  He has represented investors from all walks of life in securities arbitrations for over 15 years.  During this time, he has participated in over 100 securities arbitration cases and has assisted aggrieved investors in recovering millions of dollars.

Mr. Brannan and is admitted to practice before all Georgia Courts, including the Georgia Supreme Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.  He has argued before those courts on a number of occasions.

He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Atlanta Bar Association, and the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (“PIABA”).  He is the author of Arguments and Authorities Supporting the Viability of Holder Claims, 13 PIABA Bar J. 47 (Summer 2006), also to be published in the 2007 edition of PLI Securities Arbitration. 

Mr. Brannan has spoken to professional and civic groups, including CPAs and their clients, on how to spot red flags of securities account mismanagement and other topics.  Mr. Brannan has developed and maintains a database of public information on potential arbitrators and mediators and brings extensive experience to bear in the selection of independent and impartial arbitrators.

Mr. Brannan is currently involved in a group of cases seeking to make whole a large number of investors who were fraudulently induced by a single bad broker and his firm to purchase variable life insurance products they did not need with exorbitant annual premiums they could not afford. 

Mr. Brannan received his J.D. degree in 1990 from the Georgia State University College of Law.  He served on the Editorial Board of the Georgia State University Law Review and received American Jurisprudence Awards in Business Associations and Criminal Procedure and an Outer Barristers Guild Award.

Mr. Brannan joined the United States Air Force in 1976.  He served as a medical laboratory technician at Reese Air Force Base, Texas, and Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, obtained his Medical Technologist certification from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and was honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant (E-6) in 1984.  Mr. Brannan attended Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas, while on active duty, and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1985.  From 1985 to 1986, he completed one year of the MBA program at Georgia State University and then entered law school.  From 1984 to 1989, he was employed as a Medical Technologist with St. Mary’s Hospital, Lubbock, Texas, Veterans Administration Hospital, Decatur, Georgia, and Smith Kline Bioscience Laboratories, Atlanta, Georgia.