Brendan Little

Brendan Little is a partner at Bergman Oslund Udo Little, PLLC, where he represents victims of mesothelioma and other asbestos injuries from their office in Seattle, Washington. He has substantial experience representing individuals harmed by asbestos in cosmetic talcum powders, as well as children poisoned by lead exposure in New York public housing and from the Flint Water Crisis. He also represents whistleblowers under the False Claims Act, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission and the Internal Revenue Service programs.

On behalf of plaintiffs suffering from mesothelioma, Mr. Little has assisted his clients in recovering tens of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements. In 2022 alone, he was a member of multiple trial teams, obtaining verdicts of $30 million and $5.75 million on behalf of mesothelioma victims. The $30 million damages verdict obtained in Portland, Oregon, in May 2022 was the largest asbestos verdict ever obtained in the state till then.

Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Little completed a federal clerkship with the Honorable Judge Carol E. Jackson, at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and his Juris Doctor degree from the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law in 2010.

On behalf of whistleblowers, Mr. Little has acted as a lead counsel in multiple successful recoveries under the False Claims Act. In 2019, he represented the lead whistleblower in U.S. vs. UTC Laboratories, et al., which resulted in a recovery of $42.6 million for the U.S. taxpayers and a multi-million dollar award to the whistleblower. In 2020, he represented a whistleblower in the $117 million settlement paid by Universal Health Services, Inc. stemming from an investigation into improper Medicare and Medicaid claims.