“Her expertise is impressive, and she demonstrates both thoroughness and responsiveness.” - Benesch Client, Chambers USA
Bryna’s clients are her priority, and she is laser focused on helping them achieve their goals, whether they be courtroom wins, effective case resolutions or creative business solutions. Bryna is known for giving real-world guidance that is clear and practical. She has over 25 years’ experience representing clients in high-stakes litigation, including false advertising, product liability, defamation, trademark, trade secret and copyright cases.
Bryna works with clients in a range of industries, including consumer products, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals commodities. She has substantial courtroom and appellate advocacy experience and is also skilled at assisting brands and clients in need of reputation management. She has handled high-profile false advertising and defamation matters, copyright and trademark cases for household name companies, and a wide variety of class actions in federal and state courts throughout the country.
Her deep experience defending all manners of deceptive advertising and product defect claims includes matters before the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the National Advertising Review Board.
Bryna has collectively handled cases worth tens of billions of dollars, including defeating a $1.15 billion constitutional claim on summary judgment. She also defeated nationwide, single-state and multistate class certifications on behalf of a toy manufacturer and its big box retailers involving a popular children’s toy that contained a Schedule I controlled substance when swallowed.
Other representations include defending a labeling class action seeking to remove a wide category of cannabis products from the state-legal market; trademark work for a well-known film production company; and litigating a defamation case against a popular singer and television personality. Bryna also has experience defending food, beverage, beauty and dietary supplement companies in lawsuits involving misleading health and benefit claims.
Honors have included Chambers, Crain’s Notable Women in Law, Super Lawyers, and the National Law Journal’s 40 under 40 in Chicago.
