Brian M. Trujillo is an associate in Lawson Huck Gonzalez’s Miami office. Brian represents clients involved in complex commercial and civil litigations. He also has a successful appellate track record drafting petitions for writ of certiorari, merits briefs, and amici briefs in both federal and state appellate courts.

Before joining Lawson Huck Gonzalez, Brian was a Managing Litigation Associate at Sidley Austin, where, among other things, he represented The Seventh-Day Baptist Church of Daytona Beach in a religious-liberty case against the City of Daytona Beach, leading to the repeal of an unconstitutional ordinance. At Sidley, Brian also drafted a petition for a writ of certiorari in the Supreme Court of the United States which resulted in a successful grant, vacate, and remand in Fields v. Colorado. Before Sidley, Brian served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Roy K. Altman at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

In law school, Brian served as a student attorney for Northwestern’s Carter G. Phillips Center for Supreme Court & Appellate Advocacy, where he co-authored the merits brief in the Ritzen Group v. Jackson Masonry. Brian also served as an Executive Editor for Northwestern’s Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, Co-President of the Christian Legal Society, and Vice President of Law Students for Life. Brian is the recipient of the Irene V. McCormick Law Scholar award. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, summa cum laude, from Florida International University’s Honors College.