About Teresa Brady
Teresa Brady is a senior associate in the Firms Litigation Department. Ms. Bradys practice is diverse, and has included matters involving contracts, fraud, fiduciary duties, indemnifications, business valuations, antitrust law, multi-district litigations and class actions, appeals, securities, and bankruptcy. Her sector experience is similarly broad, and has included work on behalf of companies in the automotive, energy, banking, media, manufacturing, and currency industries in both state and federal courts and before arbitration panels. Ms. Brady is a certified information privacy professional (CIPP/US) and has represented clients in connection with privacy and data security issues on a wide variety of corporate matters. She is a member of the Firms Cybersecurity, Data Privacy & Information Management group.
Ms. Brady has been involved in several high profile cases, including as a member of the Weil team that secured a complete dismissal for CBS Corporation in a $70 million breach of contract, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty suit filed by its former anchorman and correspondent Dan Rather stemming from his departure from the network in 2006. She was also a member of the trial team representing Vivendi Universal in the largest shareholder class action to go to trial, and in related individual securities actions. Ms. Brady has also litigated a variety of matters on behalf of Lehman Brothers arising from its Chapter 11 filing, including a recent favorable decision regarding multi-hundred million dollar claims brought by former employees relating to the treatment of restricted stock units (which was covered in Law360). Currently, she is a member of the Weil team representing Calsonic Kansei, a major Japanese auto parts manufacturer, in a civil class action litigation alleging price fixing with respect to automobile radiators.
Ms. Brady also has an active pro bono practice. One long-shot victory, in which Ms. Brady and her colleagues obtained the reversal of a nearly 16-year prison sentence handed down for a minor offense under mandatory sentencing guidelines, was featured in an article published in The New York Times.
Ms. Brady is actively involved in a number of diversity initiatives, including AsianAttorneys@Weil, Weils Asian attorney affinity group, and Women@Weil, the Firms women attorney affinity group, where she serves as co-chair of the Business Development Committee.
Ms. Brady is a member of the American Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where she is a member of the Committee on Women in the Legal Profession. She is also a member of the Development Committee for Greyston Foundation.
Ms. Brady received her J.D., with honors, from the University of Texas, where she was a member of the Order of the Barristers.
