J Bradford McCullough

J. Bradford McCullough is a commercial and business litigator and appellate attorney at Lerch, Early & Brewer in Bethesda, Maryland. Brad represents businesses and individuals in a wide variety of cases in federal and state trial and appellate courts, as well as before arbitration panels and in mediation proceedings. 

Brad is known for taking on complex and challenging business and commercial disputes on behalf of clients from a broad range of industries. He handles shareholder’s derivative litigation, corporate directors’ and officers’ liability claims, business dissolutions, lender liability litigation, disputes concerning non-competition agreements, and matters arising from the Uniform Commercial Code.  

His practice also focuses on appellate matters, and he has represented clients in appeals in a wide variety of areas including commercial litigation, family law, tort law, and real estate development. Brad takes great satisfaction from analyzing, briefing, and arguing complicated legal issues before appellate courts.  

Brad approaches every case in a thorough, thoughtful manner and lives by a simple motto: “Assume nothing. Preparation wins.” His clients – who primarily come from the financial, professional services, nonprofit, and sales and distribution sectors – appreciate his tenacious dedication to their cases. In fact, one client introduced him as “one of the lawyers who saved my company.”