D.J. O'Brien III
Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard LLP
Recognized since 2019
Greensboro, North Carolina
Employment Law - Management
D.J. O’Brien’s practice is constantly evolving to advise and represent employers and individuals in commercial litigation, employment law, and regulatory enforcement actions. He has deep experience in all levels of federal and state appellate and trial courts in North Carolina, including the N.C. Business Court.
D.J. represents executives and companies who are under criminal or regulatory scrutiny concerning their business practices. He has extensive experience conducting sensitive internal investigations for companies, big and small, in an array of practice areas, including banking, health care, and securities.
As part of his criminal and civil litigation practice, D.J. regularly represents individuals and corporations from a variety of industries, including the health care, construction, defense, transportation, and technology sectors, in claims asserted under the False Claims Act. Recently, D.J.’s experience has included matters involving medical research grant fraud, including representing a whistleblower in a lawsuit against Duke University, who alleged that university researchers were committing grant fraud by relying on falsified experiment results. The case settled in 2019 for what is believed to be the largest recovery for research grant fraud in the history of the False Claims Act.
D.J. also represents businesses in a variety of employment-related litigation cases, including class and collective actions and discrimination and wage-and-hour claims, before state and federal agencies and courts. He has worked with companies in a broad variety of industries, including technology companies and franchises.
- E-mail: dobrien@brookspierce.com
- Direct Phone Number: 336-271-3194
- Lawyer Page: https://www.brookspierce.com/our-people/attorneys/dj-obrien-iii
- Renaissance Plaza, Suite 2000
230 North Elm Street
P.O. Box 26000
Greensboro, NC 27420
- Wake Forest University, J.D., graduated 2006
- Vanderbilt University, B.A., graduated 1998
- North Carolina, North Carolina
- Our Lady of Grace Church Finance Council - Chairman, Member
- Greensboro Rotary Club - President
- AbolitionNC - Member, Board of Trustees
- Greensboro Criminal Justice Advisory Commission - Member
- Labor & Employment Law Section, NC Bar Association - Member
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of NC - Member, Local Civil Rules Committee
- US District Court - Middle District of NC
- US District Court - Eastern District of NC
- US Court of Appeals - 4th, 11th Circuits
- US District Court - Western District of NC
- United States District Court
61 The Best Lawyers in America® awards
11 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America awards
- Employment Law - Management
- COVID-19
- Recognized in North Carolina Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters) as a “Rising Star” in Business Litigation (2012)
- Recognized as a "Labor and Employment Star" by Benchmark Litigation (2020-2023)
- Commercial Litigation
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
- Litigation - ERISA
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
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