Liz Broadway Brown
Partner – Alston & Bird

Description of field of expertise

Liz Broadway Brown co-chairs Alston & Bird’s Health Care Litigation Practice Team and has significant experience defending Fortune 500 companies in multiple industries in complex and high-profile litigation nationwide.

Liz has represented clients before federal and state trial and appellate courts and arbitration panels across the country in cases involving health care, privacy, ERISA, antitrust, RICO, and numerous state consumer protection and deceptive trade practices act claims. Liz is also member of the firm’s Class Action & MDL Practice Team and The Best Lawyers in America® recognizes her as a leading class action attorney.

Liz was named to the Daily Report’s “On the Rise” class of 2020—an elite group of Georgia’s most promising lawyers under the age of 40—and to the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s and The National Black Lawyers’ “Top 40 Under 40” lists. She is also recognized as a Super Lawyer by Atlanta Magazine and is a member of the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2024.

Liz was appointed to a three-year term on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia’s Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel in 2022.  In that role, she assists the district judges in the selection, appointment, and reappointment of magistrate judges in the District.

 

What advice would you offer to new attorneys interested in your field?

• Invest in yourself and your career early-on and develop a strategic action plan for accomplishing your identified goals.
• Focus on developing your core skills and building your internal and external profile.
• Recognize that developing your network and personal “board of directors” is just as important as developing your substantive legal skills.